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. 

The hydrogen maser experiment

Another of the tests that supposedly confirms the curvature of space-time is the hydrogen maser experiment of the mid-1970’s. This experiment did not prove the curvature of space-time; rather, it merely confirms that light is affected by gravity. I have no quarrel with the notion that light is affected by gravity. It makes sense that light should be affected by gravity: everything else is so affected, why shouldn’t light be as well?

The assumption is apparently that, since this experiment confirms the principle of equivalence, then it de facto confirms the curvature of space-time. But again, I am not disputing the principle of equivalence, or Galilean relativity. Gravity and acceleration should be expected to appear similar; gravity is acceleration relative to the ground of any given planet, and “gravity” in an accelerating spaceship is acceleration relative to the rear wall of the interior of the spaceship. Well, duh! Of course they appear similar. What I am disputing is the conclusions Einstein draws by trying to hold on to both Maxwell’s findings and Galilean relativity, namely the conclusion that light signals and our state of motion somehow determine how we experience the physical passage of time. We should not hold on to Galilean relativity. Galilean relativity is equivalent to an optical illusion, and any conclusions drawn from it are equally illusory. I contend that there is a privileged reference frame, regardless of our inability to detect it. Inside Galileo’s ship, claiming that a passenger on the ship, ignorant of the outside world, will be unable to detect by any experiment ether the ship is in motion, is immaterial. Such ignorance on the part of a man can have no physical impact upon the actual world; his ignorance does not dissolve the world outside his ship, making everything, from his viewpoint, relative to his ship. His ship is still enclosed by a wider world. If his ship were in fact all there was to the universe, then all motion and physical phenomena would be relative to his ship. But he has only to go on deck or look out a porthole to see that his ship is indeed enclosed within a wider universe. So he can’t pretend that his ignorance of the precise state of the absolute reference frame, namely the bounds of the universe, has any physical effect upon motion and phenomena. All motion and phenomena in his ship must therefore be relative to that wider universe as a whole. He may choose to attach such motion and phenomena to a smaller part of that universe, but such attachment does not alter the fact that motion and phenomena are actually relative to the wider universe.

Time dilation and the Doppler effect - Youtube video

Special relativity's time dilation is inconsistent with the Doppler effect, and is contradicted by general relativity's principle of equivalence.

My recent Youtube video explains it all:

Eotvos experiment does not prove space-time is curved

The Eotvos experiment, presented as proof that space-time is curved as general relativity claims, does not prove that space-time is curved. It merely proves that things fall equally in gravity regardless of their composition and mass, to a degree of precision greater than that obtained by dropping things off buildings.

In case you think, “Hey, you don’t know what you’re talking about. The Eotvos test is merely a test of the principle of equivalence, so you’re getting all worked up about nothing. No one considers Eotvos a proof for curved space-time.”

Oh yeah, wise guy? “The Eotvos experiment is viewed as one of the primary tests of the validity of curved space-time.” (Clifford M. Will, page 39-40, Was Einstein Right?)

At this point, the relativist will probably say, "A theory can never be proved. One can only offer evidence in support of it. And the Eotvos experiment supports relativity." 

Well, bollocks on you. Quit trying to spoil my rant against Einstein.