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- It is a matter of record that Henri Poincaré never responded publicly to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (RT). Since almost no private papers of Poincaré are available, his attitude toward Einstein's work and his silence on that score become somewhat of a mystery. It is almost certain that Poincaré knew of Einstein's work in RT.
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far as we know Poincaré never commented on this result, which, if true, shattered his dream of a theory of everything. The result was controversial: how could light quanta produce interference effects? Nor did Poincarè agree with Einstein’s special theory of relativity.
In a 1965 series of articles tracing the history of relativity, Keswani claimed that Poincaré and Lorentz should have the main credit for special relativity – claiming that Poincaré pointedly credited Lorentz multiple times, while Lorentz credited Poincaré and Einstein, refusing to take credit for himself. He also downplayed the theory of ...
1 Did Poincar´e Discover Special Relativity? Poincar´e’s work introduced many ideas that subsequently became impor-tant in special relativity, and on a cursory inspection it may seem that his 1905 and 1906 papers (written before Einstein’s landmark paper was pub-lished) already contain most of the major features of the theory: he had the
It is a matter of record that Henri Poincaré never responded publicly to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (RT). Since almost no private papers of Poincaré are available, his attitude toward Einstein's work and his silence on that score become somewhat of a mystery. It is almost certain that Poincaré knew of Einstein's work in RT.
As Darrigol suggests, it seems wiser to concede that Lorentz, Poincare ́ and Einstein all contributed to the emergence of the theory of relativity, that Poincare ́ and Einstein offered two different versions of the theory, and that Einstein gave form to what today is considered the best one.
By 1905 Poincare ́’s and Einstein’s reflections on the electrodynamics of moving bod-ies led them to postulate the universal validity of the relativity principle, according to which the outcome of any conceivable experiment is independent of the inertial frame of reference in which it is performed.2 In particular, they both assumed that the velo...
