“By that time they had actually used methods to determine the speed of light in the direction that earth orbits the sun, and in the reverse direction. The best theory they had at the time is that there was an aether with light travelled through, similar to sound waves travelling through the air. So therefore there should be a difference between the two. The discovery that in both directions the speed of light was the same surprised everyone.”
please cite the experiment.
“And by the way, 4-dimensional space-time wouldn’t be called Minkowski space if Einstein had invented it.”
There were a lot of physicists and mathematicians working on a lot of things cross-referencing their work with others.
I concede that Einstein didn’t invent everything but his work influenced Minkowski.
I am sure that the reverse is also true. Special Relativity: 1905. Minkowski Space: 1907.
The Michelson–Morley experiment, for one. I thought that was pretty common knowledge. Look, I didn’t mean to turn this into a debate. You said yourself that you had not research this subject, so this is just to be best of my current understanding.