Special relativity
Hi
There is something I don't understand about one of the two fundamental laws of special relativity. I mean the principle that the laws of physics are the same in all reference frames. In contrast to the second principle (constancy of the speed of light), which is an innovation of Einstein. I can't understand what he innovated here, if anything. Isn't this principle methodologically true for every scientific theory even before Einstein?
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The constancy of the speed of light was also known before him (Michelson Morley, late 19th century). It was already clear then that this did not fit with classical Newtonian mechanics. Einstein innovated that the combination of these two forces us to define the transformation between different reference systems differently. In short, he innovated the solution, not the difficulty.
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