Abstract

AGUILAR SANDOVAL, Miguel Agustín. Medición científica y el caso de Einstein contra Lorentz. Crítica (Méx., D.F.) [online]. 2022, vol.54, n.160, pp.3-30.  Epub May 02, 2023. ISSN 0011-1503.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.l8704905e.2022.1308.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Albert Einstein and Hendrik Lorentz produced different explanations for the same phenomena. However, there was a consensus in favor of Einstein, which has been difficult for historians and philosophers of science to understand. Recent literature explains that success by pointing out conflicts between some ideas of Lorentz and the early quantum physics. Despite the fact that those events could contribute to the acceptance of special relativity, I propose a complementary explanation in which I attribute Einstein's success to his use of the stability of the speed of light measurement.

Keywords : relativity; robustness; speed; light; epistemology.