Einstein's Relative Time: Cancer of Human Mind

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: "One of the towering great achievements of the human mind in our understanding of the universe is Einstein's theories of relativity. [...] It makes only two assumptions: that the speed of light in a vacuum is constant no matter who is doing the measurement and no matter in what direction you are moving or how fast. You always get the same measurement for the speed of light. That's Assumption 1 which by the way the experiment has shown to be true. [...] Given those two tenets, extraordinary spooky phenomena derive from them. For example: As you travel faster [...] time ticks more slowly for you than it does for other people who are not." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2s1-RHuljo

That the traveling twin returns younger is an idiocy but there is something much more idiotic in the story: The youthfulness of the traveling twin does not follow from the two assumptions. That is, the assumptions, true or false, logically entail some conclusions, and "the traveling twin returns younger" is not one of them.

Tyson is lying when he says

"As you travel faster [...] time ticks MORE SLOWLY for you than it does for other people who are not."

Actually, special relativity says the opposite:

As you travel faster, time ticks FASTER for you than it does for other people who are not.

Here are Einsteinians who, unlike Neil deGrasse Tyson, are telling the truth:

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~djmorin/chap11.pdf
David Morin, Introduction to Classical Mechanics With Problems and Solutions, Chapter 11, p. 14: "Twin A stays on the earth, while twin B flies quickly to a distant star and back. [...] For the entire outward and return parts of the trip, B does observe A's clock running slow..."

http://topquark.hubpages.com/hub/Twin-Paradox
"The situation is that a man sets off in a rocket travelling at high speed away from Earth, whilst his twin brother stays on Earth. [...] ...the twin in the spaceship considers himself to be the stationary twin, and therefore as he looks back towards Earth he sees his brother ageing more slowly than himself."

So the correct prediction of special relativity is that, when he returns, the traveling twin will see his (stationary) brother younger than himself. The absurdity is obvious.

How can Einstein's relativity be saved? Some additional absurdity has to be introduced, able to neutralize the original absurdity. In 1918 Einstein admitted that special relativity is contradictory and turned to general relativity - he informed the gullible world that, during the turning-around acceleration of the traveling twin, a HOMOGENEOUS gravitational field appears which is responsible for a quick, almost instantaneous, ageing of the stationary twin:

Albert Einstein 1918: "A homogeneous gravitational field appears..." http://sciliterature.50webs.com/Dialog.htm

David Morin (quoted above) perhaps finds Einstein's HOMOGENEOUS gravitational field too idiotic but introduces it nevertheless - he calls it "enough strangeness" - words that may sound less idiotic to him:

David Morin: "Twin A stays on the earth, while twin B flies quickly to a distant star and back. [...] For the entire outward and return parts of the trip, B does observe A's clock running slow, but enough strangeness occurs during the turning-around period to make A end up older."

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Einsteinians systematically contradict special relativity when it comes to the traveling observer's time:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QnmnLmwBmfE
Brian Greene: "If you're moving relative to somebody else, time for you slows down."

Special relativity predicts the opposite:

If you're moving relative to somebody else, time for you SPEEDS UP (moving clocks run FAST).

If Einsteinians taught the correct prediction, that time SPEEDS UP for the traveling observer (moving clocks run FAST), the final youthfulness of the traveling twin would be obviously impossible and Einsteinians would have to save relativity by resorting to the HOMOGENEOUS gravitational field introduced by Einstein in 1918. However teaching Einstein's 1918 idiocy is difficult and dangerous - only clever Einsteinians venture to do that. Brian Greene is not one of them, and neither are other popular educators:

http://www.jimal-khalili.com/blogs/
Jim Al-Khalili: "And, the faster you move and the longer you move at that speed, the slower your clock ticks, including your own internal biological clock, and so the slower you age - by tiny, tiny fractions of a second of course."

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/back-future-30th-anniversary-neil-degrasse-tyson-talks/story?id=32191481
Neil deGrasse Tyson: "We have ways of moving into the future. That is to have time tick more slowly for you than others, who you return to later on. We've known that since 1905, Einstein's special theory of relativity, which gives the precise prescription for how time would slow down for you if you are set into motion."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O8lBIcHre0
Brian Cox (2:25) : "Moving clocks run slowly"

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13117878.000-a-special-theory-of-relativity.html
John Gribbin: "Einstein's special theory of relativity tells us how the Universe looks to an observer moving at a steady speed. Because the speed of light is the same for all such observers, moving clocks run slow..."

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