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How about Special Relativity? IIRC, Einstein's paper had no references to previous work.
by dcuthbertson 8y ago
How about Special Relativity? IIRC, Einstein's paper had no references to previous work.
- gog-ma-gog 8y agoLorentz symmetry was already kinda-sorta baked into Maxwell’s equations. It was only a matter of time before someone took it seriously.
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- chubot 8y agoI'm very rusty in this area, but I thought that people had given credit for Poincare for precursors. Some Googling revealed this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_priority_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_priority_dispute