Quote: Einstein developed the special theory of relativity from the paradox of traveling at the speed of light; not from constructive efforts based on known facts

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By and by I despaired of the possibility … I came to the conviction that only the … After ten years of reflection such a principle … I pursue a beam of light with the … as a spatially oscillatory electromagnetic field at rest. … to Maxwell's equations. From the very beginning it … have to happen according the same laws as … first observer know, … that he is in a state of fast … already contained.   Google-1   Google-2

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