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Comment by ninalanyon

Not really. Relativity goes back to Galileo at least, and it's development by Einstein relied on Lorentz and Riemann among others. Science really is a process of /standing on the shoulders of giants/ as Newton is reputed to have said.

That doesn't diminish Einstein's achievement of course.

parent ninalanyon 1 year ago

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