re: #5 Bob Levin

So for me, Einstein was just saying what everyone saw, but weren’t quite prepared to accept, because they were heading toward a theoretical desert.

Since Einstein did not get the Nobel for SR but rather for his Photoelectric Effect, some have thought that the establishment at the time were not ready to accept the consequences of SR.

I wasn’t there and can only speculate on why the Nobel committee made their decision.

SR isn’t really so spooky, but since everyone intuitively apply Galilean type of physics (e.g., the example given by LVQ about an insect flying inside a moving car) all the time, SR gets some mystique. Yet anyone who works with light/E&M becomes accustomed to SR because that is simply how the universe works.