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Not completely left field. Relativity, Lorentz and Michelson knew there were problems with the standard formulation. FitzGerald had a go at resolving the issues
by keithpeter 15y ago
Not completely left field. Relativity, Lorentz and Michelson knew there were problems with the standard formulation. FitzGerald had a go at resolving the issues, and the Maxwell group suspected there could not be an absolute reference frame. Quanta: Planck, the dialogue of Mach/Helmholz. There was a context and a problem situation that Einstein was able to resolve to some extent in a brilliant way.