[simpaticoder]

I think you need to review the site guidelines about tone and purpose. Moreover, I'd suggest you review the history of quantum mechanics, because Einstein did not invent field theory, just as Newton did not invent or understand the Lagrange or Hamiltonian formulations, nor statistical mechanics, even though his theory provided the foundation of them all. I'm not a historian of physics, or a psychologist, so I will bow out of the conversation. May your clear passion for science continue without making you hostile.

[simiones]

> Moreover, I'd suggest you review the history of quantum mechanics, because Einstein did not invent field theory, just as Newton did not invent or understand the Lagrange or Hamiltonian formulations, nor statistical mechanics, even though his theory provided the foundation of them all.

First of all, physical fields were a concept far before QFT came in the picture, and they are the same concept as QFT's fields. Einstein was definitely familiar with classical field theories, which were prevalent ways of looking at gravitation and electromagnetism far before even quantum mechanics was discovered.

Secondly, Einstein died some time after QFT had become a real theory, so it is very likely that later in life he could have been at least passingly familiar even with some concepts of quantum fields (though of course, not at the time he wrote his GR papers).

[Maxatar]

You're bringing in a bunch of entirely irrelevant topics into this instead of actually addressing the points.

My apologies if pointing that out in clear language goes against site guidelines, it might be rude to point it out but this site does have a problem with people who think they know it all and blurting out something as laughable as it's "generous to say Einstein had an intuition about fields" is in my opinion a prime example of it.

All the best to you.