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Old February 20th 16, 11:40 AM posted to sci.astro
Pentcho Valev
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Default Einstein's Special Relativity: The Root of All Evil

http://www.amazon.com/Faster-Than-Sp.../dp/0738205257
Joao Magueijo, Faster Than the Speed of Light, p. 250: "Lee [Smolin] and I discussed these paradoxes at great length for many months, starting in January 2001. We would meet in cafés in South Kensington or Holland Park to mull over the problem. THE ROOT OF ALL THE EVIL WAS CLEARLY SPECIAL RELATIVITY. All these paradoxes resulted from well known effects such as length contraction, time dilation, or E=mc^2, all basic predictions of special relativity. And all denied the possibility of establishing a well-defined border, common to all observers, capable of containing new quantum gravitational effects."

https://www.newscientist.com/article...wards-in-time/
"[George] Ellis is up against one of the most successful theories in physics: special relativity. It revealed that there's no such thing as objective simultaneity. Although you might have seen three things happen in a particular order ? ?A, then B, then C ? someone moving ?at a different velocity could have seen ?it a different way ? C, then B, then A. ?In other words, without simultaneity there is no way of specifying what things happened "now".. And if not "now", what is moving through time? Rescuing an objective "now" is a daunting task."

https://edge.org/response-detail/25477
What scientific idea is ready for retirement? Steve Giddings: "Spacetime. Physics has always been regarded as playing out on an underlying stage of space and time. Special relativity joined these into spacetime... (...) The apparent need to retire classical spacetime as a fundamental concept is profound..."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013...reality-review
"And by making the clock's tick relative - what happens simultaneously for one observer might seem sequential to another - Einstein's theory of special relativity not only destroyed any notion of absolute time but made time equivalent to a dimension in space: the future is already out there waiting for us; we just can't see it until we get there. This view is a logical and metaphysical dead end, says [Lee] Smolin."

Special relativity is the root of all the evil because a fundamental postulate is false:

http://theconversation.com/how-einst...-physics-50042
"At the center of Einstein's theories is the fact that the speed of light is independent of the motion of the observer..."

The speed of light cannot be independent of the motion of the observer. If it was, then there would be no reasonable explanation for the fact that the frequency measured by the observer shifts from f=c/λ to f'=(c+v)/λ when the observer starts moving with speed v towards the light source. The only reasonable explanation is this:

The frequency measured by the observer shifts from f=c/λ to f'=(c+v)/λ because the speed of the light relative to the observer shifts from c to c'=c+v, in violation of Einstein's relativity.

The only explanation that can save Einstein's relativity is obviously idiotic:

The frequency measured by the observer shifts from f=c/λ to f'=(c+v)/λ because the motion of the observer somehow changes the wavelength of the incoming light. In order for the speed of the light to remain constant (and Einstein's relativity to be gloriously saved), the motion of the observer must force the wavelength of the incoming light to shift from λ to λ'=λc/(c+v).

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