Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

This physicist lost out to arguably the most well-known genius of all time, Albert Einstein, in the explanation of why the time-space continuum falls apart near the speed of light because he concluded it was due to changes in "the ether":

  1. Charles Darwin

  2. Hendrik Lorentz

  3. Pascual Jordan

  4. Werner Heisenberg
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Explanation

Hendrik Lorentz developed the Lorentz transformations to explain why the speed of light appeared constant, but he attributed the effect to physical contraction of objects moving through the 'aether'. Einstein later removed the need for aether with Special Relativity.

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