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2 years ago in Physics By Akshay R

Why is Einstein’s relativity more culturally prominent than Planck’s quantum theory?

I'm working on a historiography paper about scientific revolutions versus incrementalism. The case of relativity keeps pulling me in. When I read Lorentz's electron theory and Poincaré's convention-alism, I see so much of the formalism already present. I want to understand how historians of physics actually adjudicate this kind of credit attribution question.

 

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