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By working backwards, asking themselves which formula would lead to consistent and usable results.jeremyfiennes said:My question is: exactly how did Poincaré and Lorentz arrive at this formula?
Einstein's contribution was to work forwards, showing that the transformations follow from previously underappreciated facts (the two postulates of the 1905 paper) about how the universe works.
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