On June 30, 1905, Albert Einstein sent an article titled On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies to Annalen der Physik for publication. This paper, later known as Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, reconciled Maxwell's equations with the laws of mechanics by introducing the speed of light. It did not reference any other publication but…
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