Saturday, December 18, 2010

On the experimental validation of relativity

I don’t believe that relativity has been validated by a century of experiments. There may be experiments that seem to confirm relativity, but I believe there is no true substance to these experiments. They verify conclusions of relativity, but those conclusions are illusions. An analogy: my eyes verify the existence of the illusion in an optical illusion, but the illusion is just that: an illusion. All supposed experimental verifications of relativity that I have seen are themselves relative: they depend on your viewpoint. 

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