Re: General Relativity Does Not Rescue Special Relativity.

On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 21:50:21 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

General Relativity Does Not Rescue Special Relativity.
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It ditches it.
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According to special relativity time dilation is caused by relative
motion per se.

Not "caused" but "is correlated to". We do not know the cause.

This has been rightly criticized as self-contradictory.

It's not self-contradictory, hence it cannot be criticised in
this way.

General relativity says the clock that is accelerating is time dilating.
This makes the cause absolute motion and not relative motion.

Again, this is not a "cause" but a correlation. Regardless, you
introduced a false dichotomy. What both special and general relativity
say is the same: proper time is the trajectory arc length. The rest
(time dilation, etc.) are related to a coordinate choice and the
choice of a simultaneity criterion. This criterion can be arbitrary and
different for typical special and general relativistic concepts.
There is nothing contradictory about that, it's like preferring the
geographic north to the magnetic north (or vice-versa) as your
angle of reference, depending on your needs.

Therefore, GR ditches SR, which is a distinctly different and false
theory.

No. BTW, whenever you end up in a cul-de-sac like this, always ask
yourself: "This is a trivial observation, so the probability that
nobody had not noticed it before is exactly ZERO. Therefore,
I'm probably making a mistake somewhere."
You won't get much progress in this business by fantasising.
--
Jan