Einstein read Poincare papers for sure, and realized that assembling all those pieces together turns the physics upside down. But many of the results of the special relativity were well known before. For example, the great Michelson–Morley experiment was conducted in 1887, 18 years before. Einstein was the first to realize that all the pieces form a totally new puzzle.
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Einstein read Poincare papers for sure, and realized that assembling all those pieces together turns the physics upside down. But many of the results of the special relativity were well known before. For example, the great Michelson–Morley experiment was conducted in 1887, 18 years before. Einstein was the first to realize that all the pieces form a totally new puzzle.