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Gravitational lensing and time discrepancies with atomic clocks, among others, would be obvious anomalies that would have led to relativity theories. Not to men
by colechristensen 3y ago
Gravitational lensing and time discrepancies with atomic clocks, among others, would be obvious anomalies that would have led to relativity theories. Not to mention the actual speed limit of not being able to make anything move faster than light and the inability to find a reference frame for light to be moving in.
Once you start trying to measure the speed of light compared to your own speed it becomes quite obvious that there’s a problem with not being able to measure anything but c regardless of the movement of source and receiver.
- ramraj07 3y agoWe looked for Gravitational lensing only after Einstein proposed his theory and wanted validation. No one wanted to actually put the effort to do the measurement during an eclipse and iirc Einstein had to lobby for it greatly and only a single lone wolf guy took him up on it. And if I’m not wrong the initial observations weren’t even that solid and were likely artifacts that just in retrospect were interpreted in the right side of truth. All other observations likely would have taken decades to stumble upon as well. I see no argument still why any other scientist would have made the relativity leap (which to be clear isn’t directly a requirement for deriving E=mC^2).