"Dave Cook" wrote in message
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On 2007-10-06, nill wrote:
i hear a lot of people around me telling
that it wasnt einstein inventing relativity,
but some other guys before him

Lorentz and Poincare did important work but were never able to make
the final leap that Einstein made. Also, I don't believe they had
that much influence on Einstein's 1905 paper.

What leap do you mean - a leap of faith perhaps? If so, I agree. Einstein
was perhaps the first one to fully *believe* in the principle of relativity,
without reservations. It is open for debate if that is a good scientific
attitude; fact is that he bet on a Winner.

Cheers,
Harald