Re: General Relativity Does Not Rescue Special Relativity.

On 11/12/2024 09:04 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

Paul: Riemann was a brilliant geometer, but he made the elementary error
of reification fallacy when he made space curve and parallel lines meet.
Schwarzschild and Einstein followed him in this error that you take as
gospel. You all fail in elementary logic. Relativity is ridiculous.
Please read this article and see the comments in "No True Relativist."
"Poincaré and Cosmic Space: Curved or not?" According to this history,
non-Euclidean geometry is more empirical than Euclidean. The truth is
that while parallel lines have never been proven not to meet, they have
never been proven to meet. The curvature of the universe is
infinitesimal, making it non-falsifiable and unempirical.

In "Sidelights on Relativity", Einstein writes an "Ether and
the Theory of Relativity".
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7333
"This dualism still confronts us in unextenuated form ...."
"Since such fields also occur in vacuo—i.e. in free ether—
the ether also appears as bearer of electromagnetic fields.
The ether appears indistinguishable in its functions from
ordinary matter."
"As to the mechanical nature of the Lorentzian ether,
it may be said of it, in a somewhat playful spirit,
that immobility is the only mechanical property of
which it has not been deprived by H. A. Lorentz."
"We may assume the existence of an ether; only we
must give up ascribing a definite state of motion to it, ...."
"... there is a weighty argument to be adduced in favour
of the ether hypothesis."
[ Heh, "weighty". ]
"Mach’s idea finds its full development in the ether
of the general theory of relativity."
[ General Relativity "rescuing" Special Relativity, .... ]
"As to the part which the new ether is to play in
the physics of the future we are not yet clear.
We know that it determines the metrical relations
in the space-time continuum ...."
"Recapitulating, we may say that according to the general
theory of relativity space is endowed with physical qualities;
in this sense, therefore, there exists an ether."
-- Albert Einstein, 1920
[Einstein separates the spacial and spatial,
SR is local, SR is weak, and GR is first, and
from it derived SR, not the other way around. ]