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The next Einstein may be a 27-year-old Iranian woman

The next Einstein may be a 27-year-old Iranian woman
[caption id="attachment_155206" align="alignright" width="263"]The scientific discovery engine Sparrho has identified Iran's 'Zahra Haghani' as being the potential future Einstein. The scientific discovery engine Sparrho has identified Iran's 'Zahra Haghani' as being the potential future Einstein.[/caption]

Its hard not to love Einstein. He was a scientist who made predictions so ridiculously accurate that they couldnt be proved correct until long after his death. Heres an amazing example: in 1916 he theorized that a pulsar would attract its orbiting white dwarf at a rate of 7mm per day. At the time, there was no way to prove what he was saying, but its a part of his theory of general relativity.

Then, in 2003 scientists discovered a pulsar system of two objects, oneweighs about the same asour sun, but is only about 12 miles across and the other is a larger white dwarf. The smaller, neutron star spins 25 times per second, and the larger spins once every two seconds while orbiting the neutron star every 2.5 hours. Amazingly, Einstein was spot on with his prediction, and the two are indeed getting closer together at a rate of 7mm per day.

Einstein cross

Whats more, just recently theHubble telescopehas managed to capture an image of an exploding star, the light from which is distorted by a group of galaxies. The resulting image features an Einstein cross, which shows four points of light, originating from the same supernova. Each of them starts at the same point, but the journey of their light to Hubble is affected by the universes dark matter.

Einsteins paper, The Field Equations of Gravitation is 100 years old in December this year, but he remains one of the most famous scientists of all time. The question is, who is going to be thenextEinstein? Well, Sparrho, a scientific discovery tool, used its own technology to uncover a list of people who are currently writing about subjects related to Einsteins work.

Sparrhois an interesting company, and one that has an enormously bright future. It was developed when CEO Vivian Chan was getting her PhD in biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. She met a fellow researcher called Steve who was something of an encyclopaedia for science papers, and he made Chan realise that there was no existing resource that offered the same service he did.

That was a clear gap in the market, so she was inspired to create a digital Steve that would allow anyone from fellow academics to mums looking for help with a childs illness to access relevant papers and information. Not just published papers, but any number of other sources too it is, like any search engine, limitless in scope.

Already Sparrho checks more than 18,000 sources daily and features more than 2.1million documents in its database, including the latest articles, patents, videos and even grants (a clever way to see what people are looking in to). Sparrho can also be trained to get the best information for your needs, and return only relevant results.

Through a partnership with The British Library, Sparrho has access to metadatafor all of its content, dating back to the 1890s. That allows the company to search Einsteins work and find all the people who have written similar papers.
So, back to that Iranian woman I mentioned. Shes called Zahra Haghani and you can read her paper, Matter May Matter online. Ill avoid summarising because, well, its way beyond my rudimentary understanding of physics. But what Sparrho has done is analyse her writing, and determined that she was one of several writers who were statistically most similar to Einstein.


The others who were identified as being potential future Einsteins are:


Nikodem Poplawski(39) Theoretical physicist at the University of New Haven. Famous for the theory that every black hole is a doorway to another universe, one of the top 10 discoveries of 2010.


Hajime Sotani (36) is a project assistant professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in the division of theoretical astronomy and the author of Scalar gravitational waves from relativistic stars in scalar-tensor gravity.


Shinji Tsujikawa(39) is Associate professor at the Tokyo University of Science. Author of Cosmology in generalized Homdeski theories with second-order equations of motion.


J. Brian Pitts(40) who is based at the University of Cambridge and the author of Slightly biometric gravitation.


By Forbes

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