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Tom Roberts Does not Appear to Understand Relativity at All.
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From: Big Dog <big.fing....@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Tom Roberts Does not Appear to Understand Relativity at All.
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On 10/6/2012 12:27 AM, Koobee Wublee wrote:
> On Oct 5, 6:30 pm, Henry Wilson <hnrwl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In a recent message Tom Roberts wrote, quote:
>>
>> "A TIME interval must be measured by a single clock...”
>
> The issue here is not whether Tom Roberts and other self-styled
> physicists understand relativity or not. It is about why they BELIEVE
> IN relativity. <shrug>
>
> We are constantly reminded that relativity has not been falsified by
> any experiments. Over time, that concept even if false will sink in.
> That is how lies can become truths through repeated same lies.
> <shrug>
>
> In experimental verifications of relativity, there is some truth to
> that since no experiments have shown relativity to be false.
You are right up to here.
> However,
> these same experimental verifications have shown the antitheses to
> relativity to be also valid, and no experiments have shown the
> antitheses to relativity to be false.
And here you are wrong.