[olivelappers]

>>When Einstein formulated SR,.................Eh??????????????????


... he was adamant [damn near arrogant actually] that this was the way it was, and he was 100% correct...........????????????????


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There are those who may not have such a clear cut, black and white view of history.

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Einstein replied to his old friend Born



"Everybody does what he considers right... If he manages to convince others, that is their own affair. I myself have certainly found satisfaction in my efforts, but I would not consider it sensible to defend the results of my work as being my own 'property', as some old miser might defend the few coppers he had laboriously scrapped together. I do not hold anything against him [Whittaker], nor of course, against you. After all, I do not need to read the thing."



On the other hand, in the same year (1953), Einstein wrote to the organizers of a celebration honoring the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of his paper on the electrodynamics of moving bodies, saying



"I hope that one will also take care on that occasion to suitably honor the merits of Lorentz and Poincare."


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