On Aug 23, 3:16 pm, Tom Roberts wrote:
On 8/23/11 8/23/11 - 2:19 PM, Martin Brown wrote:

[about the GPS]
It could all have been done by iterative empirically fitted engineering
corrections without any understanding of why

Not a chance. Nobody would have given them several billion dollars on the mere
hope that it could be made to work.

These remarks are absolutely ignorant. If you actually have believed
in SR, you will not build the GPS. Theoretically (more like
hypothetically), because of this relative simultaneity thing, SR
predicts a random and incoherent time delay or advance based on the
quantity sqrt(1 – v^2 / c^2). With those significant SR “noises”, it
would be foolish to build any communication satellites as well as the
GPS. The lucky thing is that SR is wrong, and there is no such
incoherent timing due to relative simultaneity. Relative simultaneity
is just plain old wrong --- garbage. shrug

Stop worshipping SR if you have a brain. An interferometer falsifies
SR and relative simultaneity. The null results of the MMX must
indicate absolute simultaneity. shrug