[kahljorn]

"The play included some explanation of relativity, how the theory influenced the developement of nuclear weapons, and examined the relationship between ethics and science. It didn't concern itsef at all with what factors made Einstein a genius, and I'm pretty sure that while people can speculate, nobody has any idea. "

That's sort of what I was indicating, when most people think of, "What made einstein a genius" they probably think of which discoveries he made. Obviously that's not a qualification for being a genius, because plenty of people have probably not discovered or invented anything who are/were genius, I was however waiting for Pharaoh to start citing his discoveries. Other people would probably bring up IQ, but that doesn't really describe the mental processes/foundation by which he is able to exceed, and thus doesn't really answer the question of, "What makes a genius?"
According to some of what i've read on geniuses, the actual abilities they have that allow them to 'push the envelope' are things like understandig relativity between things/ideas that normally wouldn't be considered relative, or juxtaposing(casual observance helps as well). This somehow allows them to see things other people couldn't. I guess it's sort of like that type of mathematics where you don't have the answer, but you can take two different equations, mash them together and somehow find the answer. I forget what that's called.

Also, it isn't that hard to scroll past posts of people you're not interested in reading, i do it all the time. takes me like five seconds because i'm scrolling past it, and even if you did read it it'd take a minute, tops. Unless you're a slow ass reader. I scrolled past MLEs the second i saw it was about me shutting up, took less than a second. I skipped yours so fast, glowbelly, I thought you were Sadie and speculated there was some woman's alliance on the board or something. Imagine how embarassing that could of been for me ;(
Plus i'm sure you guys have inserted empty assholish opinions that were entirely unrelated to the threads topic at some point in time.