Re: General Relativity Does Not Rescue Special Relativity.

Paul: Do you not know the elementary fact that time does not dilate
because time cannot be equated to the rate of functioning of the clock?
No kind of motion can or does cause time dilation because, for time to
dilate, all rates of change would have to be affected to the same
degree, so their relative rates remain the same. If some rates of change
are not affected and do not stay at the same relative rate, time itself
will not be dilating. It would only be a change in some rates relative
to others. Also, motion cannot provide any mechanism to change all rates
in concert. How will the rate of aging, absorption, evaporation, and
heating change together? What will accelerate one rate of change will
slow another. Why does anyone want to think time dilates? Only to save
the ether! But you have no ether! Time dilation is irrelevant without an
ether.