This would have underscored the notion that the laws of physics remain invariant in any inertial frame of reference (special relativity) or indeed even in any accelerating frame of reference (general relativity).
I read this somewhere but regrettably I have no link to a source.
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From The Scientist, a 1996 essay on postmodernism that I am slowly tring to digest:
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In fact, Einstein called his creation an "Invariententheorie," a theory of invariance. The name "theory of relativity" was coined later in a review by German physicist Max Planck. Einstein resisted that name for years, although he reluctantly bowed to peer pressure. The relativistic features of time and space that led to the term "theory of relativity" are derived from the principles of invariance.
Of course, Planck was no slouch, either!
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