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Einstein was building on the work of Lorentz and Poincare, which is why we call some of the basic equations of relativity the Lorentz transformation, not the Ei
by not2b 8y ago
Einstein was building on the work of Lorentz and Poincare, which is why we call some of the basic equations of relativity the Lorentz transformation, not the Einstein transformation. He didn't come up with it ex nihilo (on the other hand, general relativity was much closer to purely his).
- BlackFly 8y agoThere were a lot of people trying to make a relativistic theory of gravity. Nordstrom's theories were precursors to General relativity and there is also an argument to be made that Hilbert discovered general relativity before Einstein.