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Talk:Special theory of relativity (view source)
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Special Relativity has been shown to be true in every challenge by generations of scientists for over 100 years. This article takes the word of a single person, a non-physicist, whose website has disappeared and whose book is no longer in publication, to make the extraordinary claim that he has "... invalidated much of Special Relativity theory by showing clear contradictions in the theory." Curators should please delete that sentence or lose any credibility as a reputable information source. If you don't want to delete it, please provide VERY STRONG evidence to back it up, together with an alternative theory that explains all the associated phenomena. Once you do that, please expect a call from the Nobel committee :-)
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Special Relativity has been shown to be true in every challenge by generations of scientists for over 100 years. This article takes the word of a single person, a non-physicist, whose website has disappeared and whose book is no longer in publication, to make the extraordinary claim that he has "... invalidated much of Special Relativity theory by showing clear contradictions in the theory." Curators should please delete that sentence or lose any credibility as a reputable information source. If you don't want to delete it, please provide VERY STRONG evidence to back it up, together with an alternative theory that explains all the associated phenomena. Once you do that, please expect a call from the Nobel committee :-)
:Please provide VERY STRONG evidence to back up your claim that special relativity has been shown to be true in that century of challenges by those generations of scientists you cited. Since you're demanding we back up our claims, I think the same demand is required of you. :-) [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] ([[User talk:Karajou|talk]]) 23:53, 19 November 2018 (EST)
:Please provide VERY STRONG evidence to back up your claim that special relativity has been shown to be true in that century of challenges by those generations of scientists you cited. Since you're demanding we back up our claims, I think the same demand is required of you. :-) [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] ([[User talk:Karajou|talk]]) 23:53, 19 November 2018 (EST)
Okay, I'll bite. Here's a long, but no means comprehensive list of references to experimental confirmations: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/experiments.html
If you have the patience, here ere are two very nice videos at a high school physics level that walk you through 2 experiments, one on the decay of mu-mesons, and the other on the kinetic energy of electrons:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CeQXsIiGp8 Time Dilation - An Experiment with mu mesons]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0BOpiMQXQA The Ultimate Speed]
Meanwhile, the computer engineer cited has NO experiments. His theory makes NO predictions. His one publication isn't even available anymore. Yet he's cited as just an authoritative a source as 100+ years of science.