I firmly believe Newton would have gotten to relativity before Einstien if he were born at the same time.
But it wasn’t the end results and complex formulas of Einstein’s theory that showed the flaws and gaps in Newton’s mechanics.
It was the basic questions and thought experiments in Einstein’s first script. About basic geometry, length and width. The flow of time, the speed of a signal. Concurrency.
It should have been possible to think these thoughts at Newton’s time.
But it wasn’t the end results and complex formulas of Einstein’s theory that showed the flaws and gaps in Newton’s mechanics.
It was the basic questions and thought experiments in Einstein’s first script. About basic geometry, length and width. The flow of time, the speed of a signal. Concurrency.
It should have been possible to think these thoughts at Newton’s time.
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I wasn’t talking about Astronomy at all.
That was needed only for the end results. Not in the introductory thoughts that I was talking about.
Good point here. That was in fact one of the starting points for Einstein.
Again you are looking at the end results only, when the theory was complete.
Have you even read my comment?
Have you even read Einstein?
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Thank you for answering at least one of my questions, the last one, in so many words.
EOD.