Quote:And if there hadn't been an Einstein, somebody else would have discovered relativity, because the conflict between Maxwell's equations and the results of the Michelson-Morley experiment were lying there on the surface, just waiting for someone to reconcile them.
I'm not sure I follow; relativity (or rather, the proper expression for Lorentz boosts) can be derived from Maxwell's equations.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
