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To: one_less who wrote (116158)	3/3/2008 11:45:44 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 173976

The real genius of Einstein's theory was that the implications were realized by others who followed the math, but the implications turned out to be true no matter how weird they seemed. Einstein, in his initial paper on relativity, showed that the speed of light had to be the same for all observers or else cause and effect would be violated. It was critics who showed that if the speed were constant, then in even a simple distance calculation (Distance = speed times time) then either everything is at the same distance, or time has to be different in different circumstances. It turns out that Einstein's insistence that the speed couldn't vary, so time had to, was correct. The real genius of Einstein's theory was that all these weird and strange things that people said must be true if his premise were true, turned out to be true. TP