Suppose Einstein Had Never Lived and Did Not Publish the Special

Multiple Choice

Suppose Einstein had never lived and did not publish the special theory of relativity in 1905.According to most historians of science,when would someone else have discovered the theory?

A) within a year
B) in about 10 to 20 years
C) in about 50 years
D) We still wouldn't know about it today.
E) If Einstein hadn't lived,space and time would be very different,and the theory would have been discovered by the ancient Greeks.