EINSTEINIANA DEAD? (Was: Who wrote "Reflections on relativity"?)

On Jun 16, 2:26 am, Tom Roberts wrote in
sci.physics.relativity:
Let me state up front that I don't know who wrote it.

Uncle Ben wrote:
one of Einstein's two main two reasons for
abandoning special relativity as a suitable
framework for physics was the fact that, no
less than Newtonian mechanics, special relativity
is based on the unjustified and epistemologically
problematical assumption of a preferred class
of reference frames, precisely the issue raised
by the twins paradox. Today the "special theory"
exists only (aside from its historical importance)
as a convenient set of widely applicable formulas
for important limiting cases of the general theory,
but the phenomenological justification for those
formulas can only be found in the general
theory.
http://www.mathpages.com/rr/s4-07/4-07.htm

This quote seems reasonably correct to me. I have known for a long time
that the foundations of SR can only be found in GR.

Bravo Honest Roberts! Let us put things straight. The statement:

"Special relativity is based on the unjustified and epistemologically
problematical assumption of a preferred class of reference frames,
precisely the issue raised by the twins paradox."

seems "reasonably correct" to Tom Roberts. Einsteiniana is, if not
dead, at least in agony. Einsteinians are not inclined to defend dead
science anymo

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.............................
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