✦ Time paradoxes · Closer than it seems
Battle of Hastings: 1066; Isaac Newton: 1643–1727; Relativity: 1905 — 577 years between the first two, 262 years between the last two (counting from birth).
Isaac Newton lived closer in time to the theory of relativity than to the Battle of Hastings.
Who and what
- Battle of Hastings1066 · Hastings. The Normans remake England's elite and its language
- Isaac Newton1643–1727 · English physicist and mathematician
- Einstein's miracle year and relativity1905 · Bern. A patent clerk's four papers lay the base of modern physics
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