this is all true until you get to general relativity, which took Einstein some 10 years after special relativity to come up with.
general relativity is by far Einstein's most amazing idea/theory, and as far as i know it doesn't have any obvious inspirations. Feynman said as much. arguably if you cobble together special relativity + the idea of space and time as being one space + the equivalence principle, you might be able to come up with the idea for general relativity... but probably not.
general relativity is by far Einstein's most amazing idea/theory, and as far as i know it doesn't have any obvious inspirations. Feynman said as much. arguably if you cobble together special relativity + the idea of space and time as being one space + the equivalence principle, you might be able to come up with the idea for general relativity... but probably not.