A nice synopsis of Einstein's hoax:
Ethan Siegel: "In the 1880s, Albert A. Michelson constructed a series of ultra-sensitive interferometers set up to exploit exactly this fact. As the interferometer rotated into, perpendicular to, and against the Earth's direction of motion, there should have been shifts in the interference pattern produced by the beams of light as they moved through space. But no shift was ever observed; this experiment returned a null result. This was perhaps the most important null result in the history of physics, since it meant that the speed of light was constant to any and all observers. As Chad Orzel says, the big advance of Einstein's relativity was to state that the laws of physics do not depend on how you're moving, and that one of those laws is the fact that the speed of light is a constant to everybody! The thing that changes for different observers moving at different speeds is not how fast a light beam appears to move, but rather how fast one another's clocks appear to run and how long distances appear to be between objects moving at various speeds."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startsw...al-relativity/
Two fundamental lies above - that the Michelson-Morley experiment has proved constancy of the speed of light and that this constancy is a consequence of the principle of relativity. Needless to say, Einstein devised both of them:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...66838A 639EDE
The New York Times, April 19, 1921: "The special relativity arose from the question of whether light had an invariable velocity in free space, he [Einstein] said. The velocity of light could only be measured relative to a body or a co-ordinate system. He sketched a co-ordinate system K to which light had a velocity C. Whether the system was in motion or not was the fundamental principle. This has been developed through the researches of Maxwell and Lorentz, the principle of the constancy of the velocity of light having been based on many of their experiments. But did it hold for only one system? he asked. He gave the example of a street and a vehicle moving on that street. If the velocity of light was C for the street was it also C for the vehicle? If a second co-ordinate system K was introduced, moving with the velocity V, did light have the velocity of C here? When the light traveled the system moved with it, so it would appear that light moved slower and the principle apparently did not hold. Many famous experiments had been made on this point. Michelson showed that relative to the moving co-ordinate system K1, the light traveled with the same velocity as relative to K, which is contrary to the above observation. How could this be reconciled? Professor Einstein asked."
Albert Einstein: Relativity: The Special and General Theory. 1920. VII. The Apparent Incompatibility of the Law of Propagation of Light with the Principle of Relativity
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