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In sci.physics.relativity, Karl-Hugo Weesberg
<netspider4@lycos.com>
 wrote
on 22 Oct 2004 21:09:09 -0700
<7666ed5f.0410222009.6ba27476@posting.google.com>:
> Sorry, but this theory is rubbish and must be replaced by a new,
> better theory or mankind is doomed!

Thou art but a snack to the troll-eaters.

[1] SR and GR have been abundantly confirmed.  The classical
    confirmations:

    - orbit of Mercury
    - Michelson-Morley null
    - deflection of starlight by the Sun (admittedly that one's a
      bit iffy, mostly because of measurement error)
    - Compton effect/calculations
    - muon observation
    - GPS NTS-2 satellite "flip switch"
    - gamma rays (not) resonating when hitting a moving iron block
    - observation of supernovae

Some of these might also confirm other hypotheses -- e.g., MMX
can also be taken to mean that light is source-invariant.
(Turns out it is but it's also destination-invariant as well.)

The effect is rather small in most cases -- the GPS discrepancy
for instance is 4.46 * 10^-10 sec/sec -- but it is there.

[2] SR has to be taken into account when designing GPS satellites,
    the definition of time (the TAI), and particle accelerators.

[3] SR and GR are a bit esoteric to the future of mankind,
    although one might contemplate some strange weaponry (a
    la _Ghostbusters_).  However, conventional weaponry,
    together with weaponry explainable by Newton's
    laws (e.g., the dual-frequency sonic beam, tasers,
    stickyglue, and fired nets) might be more useful.
    Other possibilities include rice grains in each and
    everyone's neck, hand, or somewhere, and a tracking
    network.  (That doesn't require SR, just a rather
    vicious mindset to contemplate.  Of course SR might
    help to some extent for GPS computation, though a
    grain of rice can't receive satellite signals--but
    surrounding units might have GPS receivers, if
    mass-produced.)


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