I have been experimenting with days off (that I hope to turn to weeks or months) of looking at or reading other people's work in favor of exploring my own ideas in a more complete way. That being said, if you live in a cave you will be making cave paintings while others paint the chapel.
>he was increasingly isolated from the rest of the physics community. Because of the huge strides made by quantum theory in unraveling the secrets of atoms and molecules, the majority of physicists were working on the quantum theory, not relativity.
Nonetheless, what I said was inaccurate. Isolation does breed creativity but the fruits of it must be shared if something meaningful is to occur.