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Albert Einstein was unquestionably a genius. He came up with both the theories of Special Relativity and General Relativity. His imagination and ability to comprehend the universe in new ways was unmatched. But how did he come up with ideas in the first place?

In this video, we will discuss a fundamental part of Special Relativity - the idea that the speed of light is constant for ALL observers (except for accelerating ones, but let's ignore that for now). Now the concept itself is pretty mindbending, but we're not going to be talking about it or its implications. Instead, we'll discuss Einstein's thought process behind coming up with such a ridiculous idea (and we'll in fact see that he didn't come up with it at all - he just used this idea more thoroughly than anyone else).

In order to see where Einstein took inspiration from, we need to look at an entirely different area of physics, known as Electromagnetism. This theory explains the behaviour of both Electric and Magnetic fields in their entirety, and it was pioneered by James Clerk Maxwell. Now a small part of Electromagnetism looks in detail at Electromagnetic Waves. Now interestingly, this theory suggests that Electromagnetic Waves travel at a constant speed, without referring to any particular frame of reference.

So Einstein saw this prediction and took it to its logical conclusion - thereby coming up with Special Relativity. His genius was not in coming up with such a ridiculous idea - his genius was taking an idea from a different area of Physics that was potentially dodgy, and carrying it to its logical conclusion. And it turns out that he was right - light really does behave this way.

I hope that this video can work towards demystifying the genius that was Einstein. I have always wondered how people came up with ideas, so I thought I'd explain how Einstein came up with this one.

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