>>12431568No, Einsteins theory or relativity makes very specific claims about motion, gravity, and time. The vedas do not address any of these questions, and the concept of a field theory or a differentiable manifold did not even exist at that time. I think you are perhaps conflating relativity in physics with relativity as a philosophical viewpoint.
Now if you are asking about relativism or philosophical idealism, then absolutely, the vedas did address both cultural relativism and idealist and other non-materialistic ontologies. However, if you are talking about either cultural relativism or philosophical idealism, then it's worth mentioning that these ideas also go back much further than Einstein in European intellectual history. These ideas already appear quite explicitly and unambiguously in the Greek philosophical and literary tradition, especially the work of Plato and Aristotle. In more recent centuries, Hegel and George Berkeley, both wrote extensively on these concepts long before Einstein.
That being said, Einstein's work has obviously been extensively discussed and explored in relation to philosophical relativism and idealism. Especially, with respect to temporality and causality, since relativity theory undermines our naive concept of simultaneity. However, to suggest that Einstein originated the concept of philosophical relativism or idealism is completely inaccurate.
