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An immortal gem by David A. Smith (17-Apr-2008)

I worry about you.
Dear cosofret:

On Apr 17, 2:46 am, cosofr...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Maybe someone is interested in reading and eventually
> makes comments on some free materials at following link:
>      http://www.elkadot.com/relativity.html.
> 
> The texts are excerpts of books...

Lets' see how you like comments ...
You make glancing reference to books written in support and attack of
SR, but you do not provide citations to examples.

You make believe that SR is "just accepted", when in reality SR has
been tested, and the many places it fails are well known.  Where is
does not fail, is where "Euclidian geometry and a finite speed of
light" do fail.  Which failure is documented in literature (the
effect known as magnetism, for a common example).

I think this website is a fine example of something that you can spend
the rest of your life defending, building ever higher defenses between
yourself and Nature (though you will imagine it is protection from
your detractors).  Then you can tell everyone else how they don't
understand, and how these early words / opinions of yours are gospel,
and how everyone else is worshipping a religion.

Ask yourself how you rate here:
   http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
... or here:
   http://www.aspergers.com/
(asperger's =/= crazy... just "obsessed")

The life you waste defending this "work" is your own.  Should you be
interested in a real work of physics, you might find this interesting:
   http://www.motionmountain.net/
... or this:
   http://www.physics.adelaide.edu.au/~dkoks/Faq/Relativity/SR/experiments.html

If people "just accept" their theories, it does become religion.
Since Science requires challenging your theories, ask yourself if...
100 years later, SR still being challenged and the limits of
applicability refined, shows "acceptance" of anything except that SR
is still just a theory.

I worry about you.  Not what you imagine for the rest of us, but what
your life may hold for you in the future if you believe scientists are
as incompetent and "cartoonish" as you imagine.

David A. Smith
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