Yes indeed there was, Albert found a little known theory produced by Galileo called the Principle of Relativity. This stated that it was impossible to determine how fast a frame of reference was moving without reference to some outside point. In other words if you are sitting inside a train, moving smoothly along, you cannot tell how fast, or even if, you are moving unless you look out of the windows and see everything whizzing by. Back to Albert on the space ship trying to have a shave. If his image in the mirror disappeared when the space ship reached the speed of light Albert would know the speed of the space ship.
Velocity is equal to the distance travelled divided by the time take to travel it.
In other words, my measurements of time and distance in a moving spaceship, or frame of reference, will differ from yours in a stationary one. And this is indeed what happens. This may sound mad but it has been proved many, many times. In every day life the effect is too small to be noticed but Supersonic jets carrying very accurate atomic clocks have noticed differences in timing with clocks kept on the ground. Atomic particles which disintegrate after a short amount of time live longer when they go at almost light speed.