Fair enough! It's always interesting to hear these cases of ideas that must have been in the air. I've heard it said that if Einstein got hit by a bus, Lorentz

Fair enough! It's always interesting to hear these cases of ideas that must have been in the air. I've heard it said that if Einstein got hit by a bus, Lorentz (or someone) probably would have gotten Special Relativity wrapped up eventually, but that perhaps nobody else would have come up with General Relativity even yet.