If Bob Dylan could have ghostwritten Shakespeare’s sonnets, I think they would have been great.
Bach was a great composer, but so is e.g. Morten Lauridsen, who you’ve never heard of. Network effects and first mover advantage ensure you’ve heard of Bach but not Lauridsen (though it’s not insurmountable—people have heard of Hans Zimmer and John Williams).
Robert Hooke gets his name immortalized in physics for realizing the importance of the fact that spring force is approximately proportional to displacement. Peter Higgs gets his name immortalized for realizing how electroweak symmetry breaking could lead to the elimination of Goldstone modes for the field degrees of freedom that correspond to the W and Z bosons. Higgs’s job was harder, because all the “easy immortality” had already been picked up by people like Hooke.
If Bob Dylan could have ghostwritten Shakespeare’s sonnets, I think they would have been great.
Bach was a great composer, but so is e.g. Morten Lauridsen, who you’ve never heard of. Network effects and first mover advantage ensure you’ve heard of Bach but not Lauridsen (though it’s not insurmountable—people have heard of Hans Zimmer and John Williams).
Robert Hooke gets his name immortalized in physics for realizing the importance of the fact that spring force is approximately proportional to displacement. Peter Higgs gets his name immortalized for realizing how electroweak symmetry breaking could lead to the elimination of Goldstone modes for the field degrees of freedom that correspond to the W and Z bosons. Higgs’s job was harder, because all the “easy immortality” had already been picked up by people like Hooke.