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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I'm reasonably sure that Einstein's breakthrough was more that he assumed light only travels at the speed of light and the all the equations worked.

Every experiment since has confirmed it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The other way around. Experiments said that light always moves at C and he deduced what follows from that for space time.

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