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To: Hermann the Cherusker
I'm sure I could go through that website and refute every one of this guy's claims, point by point, without breaking a sweat. It would take weeks, though, and at the end of it you'd find another site (or a dozen, or a thousand), and say, "OK, well what about this one?" There'd never be an end to it. It's a fool's errand.

But here's something that should give you pause: if there were a (more) simple explanation for the phenomena explained by relativity, and if relativity were trivially wrong, don't you think that the relativity "heretics" would hit upon the same explanation? But they never do! If they could come up with some sort of agreement amongst themselves, perhaps I could understand why a layman might find the idea compelling. As it stands now, there are as many heresies as there are heretics.

12 posted on 11/21/2003 6:15:09 AM PST by Physicist
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To: Physicist
I'm sure I could go through that website and refute every one of this guy's claims, point by point, without breaking a sweat.

The man s a Physics Professor. Why not correspond with him if you think he is so deluded. And surely there are a couple of simple "errors" you can point to.

But here's something that should give you pause: if there were a (more) simple explanation for the phenomena explained by relativity, and if relativity were trivially wrong, don't you think that the relativity "heretics" would hit upon the same explanation?

"Its true because we all agree it is true"? Is that really your best argument?

13 posted on 11/21/2003 11:20:28 AM PST by Hermann the Cherusker
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