Einstein didn't reweight hypotheses—he changed the hypothesis space itself
vishalmisra · x · 2026-09-28
vishalmisra argues in a thread with @ksami that special relativity may not have been an available hypothesis at all in the pre-1905 hypothesis space. Einstein's contribution was not assigning higher probability to an existing row, but changing the space of hypotheses by questioning an assumption—reframing how space, time, and motion fit together.
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