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You have no idea how correct you are on this. I have had to deal with multiple philosophy types who just knew that special relativity (rather than general in t
by at_a_remove 7y ago
You have no idea how correct you are on this. I have had to deal with multiple philosophy types who just knew that special relativity (rather than general in this case) could not be right and had a variety of "proofs" against it; key to their delusions was this misapprehension that Michelson-Morley had been done just one time only!
Dr. Clifford Will's Was Einstein Right? is a now-dated book about the various experiments over time, which is very handy if you want a summary of just how many attacks have been weathered. I don't doubt that it could use a second volume by now.
- msla 7y agoThere's a famous book, never translated into English, titled Hundert Autoren Gegen Einstein or A Hundred Authors Against Einstein; of course, in Einstein's own words, had he been wrong, one would have been enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_theory_of_relativity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_theory_of_rel...