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== Link to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity ==

== Link to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity ==

Some authors state that the celebrated Michelson-Morley experiment was the starting point of the Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity<ref name="Essen">{{cite book |author=L.Essen |title=The Special Theory of Relativity: A Critical Analysis |publisher= Oxford Science Research Papers, Clarendon Press|year=1971 |pages=1-2 |url=http://books.google.com/books?ei=hq3yUZP3K4O6O_3NgMAI&hl=sk&id=LJjvAAAAMAAJ&dq=Essen+The+Special+Theory+of+Relativity+A+Critical+Analysis&q=starting+point#search_anchor |accessdate=July 26, 2103}}</ref> while others are taking effort to deny any link and try to assure that his 1905 paper was not written with the Michelson-Morley experiment in mind but with entirely different motives.<ref>{{cite book |title= Physics Before and After Einstein|author=Klaus Hentschel et al.|Editor= M.Mamone Capria|publisher=IOS Press |year= 2005 |chapter=7: Testing Relativity |pages=164 |isbn= 9781586034627|url= http://books.google.com/books?id=SdLLsj-0rqIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Physics+Before+and+After+Einstein&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=rbPyUf-rO86_PJSWgJAE&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Physics%20Before%20and%20After%20Einstein&f=false}}</ref> Einstein was criticized for the omission of any reference to the work of H.A. [[Lorentz]] and H. [[Poincare]] in his 1905 paper to such degree that Whittaker in his detailed study attributes the presented theory entirely to them.<ref name="Essen"/>

Some authors state that the celebrated Michelson-Morley experiment was the starting point of the Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity<ref name="Essen">{{cite book |author=L.Essen |title=The Special Theory of Relativity: A Critical Analysis |publisher= Oxford Science Research Papers, Clarendon Press|year=1971 |pages=1-2 |url=http://books.google.com/books?ei=hq3yUZP3K4O6O_3NgMAI&hl=sk&id=LJjvAAAAMAAJ&dq=Essen+The+Special+Theory+of+Relativity+A+Critical+Analysis&q=starting+point#search_anchor |accessdate=July 26, 2103}}</ref> while others are taking effort to deny any link and try to assure that his 1905 paper was not written with the Michelson-Morley experiment in mind but with entirely different motives.<ref>{{cite book |title= Physics Before and After Einstein|author=Klaus Hentschel et al.|Editor= M.Mamone Capria|publisher=IOS Press |year= 2005 |chapter=7: Testing Relativity |pages=164 |isbn= 9781586034627|url= http://books.google.com/books?id=SdLLsj-0rqIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Physics+Before+and+After+Einstein&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=rbPyUf-rO86_PJSWgJAE&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Physics%20Before%20and%20After%20Einstein&f=false}}</ref> Einstein was criticized for the omission of any reference to the work of [[Hendrik Lorentz|H.A. Lorentz]] and H. [[Poincare]] in his 1905 paper to such degree that Whittaker in his detailed study attributes the presented theory entirely to them.<ref name="Essen"/>

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