This TED Talk features physicist Victorio Loretto, recorded live at TED at BCG 2017.

We have all probably wondered how great minds achieved what they achieved, right?

And the more astonishing their achievements are, the more we call them geniuses, perhaps aliens,

coming from a different planet, definitely not someone like us. But is that true? So let me start

with an example. You all know the story of news on apple, right? Is that true?

Probably not.

Still, it's difficult to think that no apple at all was there.

I mean, some stepping stones, some specific conditions that made universal gravitation not

impossible to conceive.

And definitely, this was not impossible, at least for Newton.

It was possible.

And for some reason, it was also there, available.

At some point, easy to pick as an apple.

Here is the apple.

And what about Einstein?

It was relativity theory, another big leap in the history of ideas

no one else could even conceive?

Or rather, was again something adjacent and possible to Einstein, of course.

And he got there by small steps in his very peculiar scientific path. Of course, we cannot conceive his path,

but this doesn't mean that the path was not there.

So, all this seems very evocative.

But I would say hardly concrete,

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