John Carlos Baez on Nostr: - yes, it's an instance of that. Poincare in particular was too sophisticated for his ...

- yes, it's an instance of that. Poincare in particular was too sophisticated for his own good, correctly arguing that different conceptual frameworks were possible for explaining the phenomena of relativistic time dilation, length contraction, etc., while Einstein strongly argued for *one* framework, in retrospect the best one - and then took advantage of this to revolutionize physics.