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Originally Posted by TINNY
I don't know much. So it would be nice if people can explain why it is such a big deal.
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I guess you know why it is a big deal, it revolutioned the way the world was seen! All the people resaerching on the existence of the ether were told that the ether doesn't exist. Think for example about the Michelson and Morley experiment, they invested I don't know how much time in trying to prove the existence of the ether and Einstain theory just tell them that their tentative was to in vain.
Adding to that, I guess you know that einstein got the Nobel price, but did you know that his theroy was to revolutionnary so that they preferred (i.e they weren't courageous enough) giving him the price for his explication of the photoelectrical effect.
The simplest reason to see why it is revolutionnary is that before adding to the ether, there seemed to be (at least many believed) something like an absolute time scale (see Galileo transformations), his theory stated that there exists no such scale, time is slow or quick only when compared to another time scale. If this is not revolutionnary.
It's enough to look a bit into it and you'll see there is already a lot of revolutionnary stuff, that changed the global worldview (and is therefore a philosofical implication), without needing any spiritual elements.
