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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (32401)12/8/2003 1:34:44 PM
From: lurqer  Read Replies (1) of 89467
 
"no Einstein".

Oh I believe Einstein was an Einstein. But that is not to say that his ideas were created ab ignito. As Newton would have said

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants"

(for complications <g> see warble.com )

In that regard Einstein certainly built on the work of Lorentz. In fact, the equations of Special Relativity are usually referred to as the Lorentz Transformations. And Lorentz' work was stimulated by FitzGerald.

ee.umd.edu

What was radically different, was Einstein's perspective of what these equations meant.

JMO

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