So the idiocy

"Time slows down for the moving observer"

contradicts special relativity and yet Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene and brothers Einsteinians fiercely teach it. There must be something special about this idiocy. Where does it come from? Amazingly, from Lorentz. In 1895 Lorentz found it suitable to define "local time", t', as one measured by the MOVING observer:

"In order to be more specific, let us consider the case of a body in uniform motion with velocity v with respect to the ether, in a direction defined by some axis x. According to Lorentz (1895), observers bound to this body should not make use of the true universal time t of Newton, but of a "local time" t' which depends on the position through the formal relation: t'=t-vx/c^2." http://www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/ptm/pm...P/Reignier.pdf

It turns out, from this definition, that the moving observer sees his (moving) clock ticking SLOWER than the stationary clock. If the principle of relativity is not taken into account, this is not a mistake since the definition is arbitrary. If, however, the principle of relativity is obeyed, the moving observer must see his (moving) clock ticking FASTER than the stationary clock. Einstein did not understand this (the plagiarist hardly understood anything) and introduced the principle of relativity without replacing SLOWER with FASTER:

"Lorentz introduced an auxiliary time variable, his "local time," in each inertial frame of reference. To complete this approach, Einstein would have to accept that this local time was just the time, plain and simple, of the inertial frame of reference. [...] In an introductory historical preamble to a 1907 survey of relativity theory, Einstein remarked in words that to me have an autobiographical ring: "One needed only to realize that an auxiliary quantity that was introduced by H. A. Lorentz and that he called 'local time' can simply be defined as 'time'."
http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers...over_final.pdf

"However, in the case of Special Relativity, the egregious merit of Einstein was, apart from his new mathematical results and his new physical predictions (notably about the comparison of the readings of clocks which have moved with respect to each other) the conceptual breakthrough that the rescaled "local time" variable t' of Lorentz was "purely and simply, the time", as experienced by a moving observer." http://www.bourbaphy.fr/damourtemps.pdf

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