And soon after, a team of experimentalists the world over set about proving him right. People rarely remember the experimentalists, the guys who go through all

And soon after, a team of experimentalists the world over set about proving him right. People rarely remember the experimentalists, the guys who go through all the hard work of providing the evidence to the theorists. See: Michelson and Morley, Eddington, and others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_special_relativity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_special_relativity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity