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Subject: Re: Is the theory of relativity a correct =?UTF-8?B?dGhlb3J5Pw==?=
Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 19:22:33 +0000
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Richard Hachel wrote:

> Is the theory of relativity a correct theory?
> If you ask a moron, he'll say no.
> If you ask another idiot, he'll say yes.
> Both are wrong.
> An intelligent man, capable of correctly mastering the whole theory from
> A 
> to Z, will say that it is partly true and partly false, and he will put
> 
> the two camps back to back.

You are overthinking this. The truth is simply that relativity is just
like
any other accepted theory in physics. No "partly" this or "partly"
that.

The only reason this particular theory is constantly being dissected,
almost always incorrectly, by amateurs is that it's a theory with a
low barrier of mathematical entry. This makes it vulnerable to probing
by armchair critics who have no idea about anything else in physics, and
thus
don't understand where relativity came from and why would anyone (like
Einstein) ever come up with such a "weird" thing.

Theories which are far, FAR more bizarre, like quantum electrodynamics,
are spared that fate because they are not accessible without a
formidable
mathematical foundation.

--
Jan