Comment by xanderlewis

> To say they stole his work would be silly.

He says they stole it; see for example his recent interview with Numberphile. So is he silly? Or do you know better?

> There's not enough pre-einstein text digitzed to make a fair shot at such an experiment

Then why was it possible for humans to do physics, or indeed function at all, pre Einstein? I guess humans are special after all.