The story about Newton, the apple and planetary motion was a good one as it was nothing other than a scaled up notion on attraction dressed up in vague absolute/relative language. It was designed to obscure the overreaching objective of turning the celestial arena into a theoretical blackboard but presently it can't compete with the emergence of imaging, the internet and the weight of observations that can be put to creative and productive use.

You crowd remind me of the brexiteers in the ability to believe contradictory things, after all, once you recognize Sir Isaac's absolute/relative time as nothing more than the equalizing facility between variations in natural noon and the average 24 hour day you can't discuss it in any other terms and certainly not relativity. Much like Brexit there are no strong personalities or responsible people to take stock and rectify matters.