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Re: relativity, anger, swearing

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From: Igor
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:25
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On Mar 2, 2:33 pm, Dead Paul <dead_p...@no.reply> wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:55:35 -0800, Pentcho Valev wrote:
> > On Mar 2, 4:24 pm, Randy Poe <poespam-t...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> On Mar 2, 8:20 am, steve O <steve.g.oa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> > My first posting to this group - may be my last :-) Why is there so
> >> > much anger on this group when the subject is physics ? If some physics
> >> > is 'wrong' then it will soon be found out by someone doing an
> >> > experiment ?
> >> > Swearing at others or getting so emotional is not going to convince
> >> > anyone ?
> >> > If engineers are compensating for GR and SR time dilation in the GPS
> >> > satellite positioning system then relativity must have something going
> >> > for it - the reason I say this is because many engineers have been
> >> > extremely sceptical about SR over the years but they now embrace it.
> >> > For all those people who can't accept the results of relativity - can
> >> > they point to some prediction that has been shown to be false by
> >> > experiment ?
>
> >> Sure, that's easy. The anti-relativists point to any experimental test
> >> and say "they're lying, obviously the real result disproved relativity"
> >> or "I'll bet they never even performed that experiment".
>
> >> Ta-da, relativity disproved!
>
> >>          - Randy
>
> > Randy Randy things are simpler than that. You consider for instance the
> > Pound-Rebka result
>
> Very good but you do not even need to do that. One of the foundations of
> SR is relativity of simultaneity - it is false, so SR collapses. Similarly
> with GR, the equivalence principle is known to be false also thus GR
> collapses.
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Please point out one experiment or observation that disproves
relativity of simultaneity.
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