WI? RIP A. Einstein 1879-1906

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Albert Einstein was one of the greatest geniuses of modern era, to the point his name become synonym for genius. Yet he lived in a dangerous world. Street accidents, infectious diseases, lax or nonexistant safetely standards, etc. How would the advances of science go if accident robbed us from that man?

I purposefully set his death after his miracle year when he published four of his ground breaking works.
 
Well, Special Relativity is already out. Minkowski's already producing his vector-tensor formulation of Maxwell's equations, and of Einstein's.

General Relativity WILL come, but it may take rather longer, and be the incremental work of multiple people, rather than the product of a single genius mind.

But Einstein may actually have slowed the development of other modern physics (in particular Quantum Mechanics), as his firmly held position was 'God does not play dice with the Universe'. (Yes, I know no one can trace that specific wording in print back to him, but it expresses nicely his opinion,)

So...
Far less difference than you might think, perhaps.
 
General Relativity WILL come, but it may take rather longer, and be the incremental work of multiple people, rather than the product of a single genius mind.
I wouldn't call it a product of a single genius mind, but he was definitely the main driver in its development, so the conclusion is broadly correct. Notably, Hilbert credited Einstein's insights, and he's the leading contender for an alternative founder of GTR.

But Einstein may actually have slowed the development of other modern physics (in particular Quantum Mechanics), as his firmly held position was 'God does not play dice with the Universe'. (Yes, I know no one can trace that specific wording in print back to him, but it expresses nicely his opinion.)
Pfft, no. Einstein was a key pioneer in QM even after 1905, e.g. stimulated emission (laser), Bose-Einstein statistics, support if de Broglie, and even his criticism was beneficial, because it shaped the conceptual foundations of QM.

When science is challenged but survives, it typically comes out stronger.
 
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