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In his book, time was universal and absolute.
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This theory turned out to be compatible with special relativity, even though special relativity was not known at that time.
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This experiment was performed by Albert Abraham Michelson and Edward Williams Morley.
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Jules Henri Poincaré said that "... we have no direct intuition about the equality of two time intervals."
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Poincaré came very close to special relativity: "... as demanded by the relativity principle the observer cannot know whether he is at rest or in absolute motion."
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Poincaré's finished an article in which he stated that there seeems to be a general law of Nature, that it is impossible to demonstrate absolute motion.
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Einstein finished his famous article where he formulated the two postulates of special relativity. Furthermore, in September, Einstein published his article where he derived the formula, E=mc^2.
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Max Planck wrote an artical on special relativity. He was the second person after Einstein who wrote an article about this theory.
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Nearly ten years after the foundation of special relativity, Einstein submitted his paper on Field Equations of Gravitation for pubication, which gave the correct field equations for the theory of general relativity.