Special Relativity wasn't really all that special - Einstein put all the existing pieces together. Lorentz actually put it together but just didn't believe that

Special Relativity wasn't really all that special - Einstein put all the existing pieces together. Lorentz actually put it together but just didn't believe that's how the universe actually operated. Einstein's genius was the General Theory of Relativity. That was truly original and revolutionary thought, the likes of which we only see every few hundred years.