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On 2002-02-07 12:07, GrapesOfWrath wrote:
Some vacuum. He studied graduate physics under some of the great ones. Still, what we're talking about here was fairly speculative.
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Howdy Grapes,
I did little research. And great ones were Weber and Minkowski. The former he hated and the latter he liked. Although neither was a mentor in the way that is common today.
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He'd read Mach, though, and though he always claimed to not have read about the MM experiment, he seems to have been familiar with works that derived from it.
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In his Kyoto address in 1921, Al said that he studied Lorentz's 1895 paper, which mentions the MM experiment and the null result. So he had indirect knowledge of the experiment at the least. My guess is, knowing of the negative results of Fizaeu's experiment and stellar aberration, Einstein accepted Lorentz's telling of the MM experiment and never (pre SR) develved deeper.