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2: ''The eccentricity of the Moon's orbit is increasing contrary to the theory of relativity''
 
2: ''The eccentricity of the Moon's orbit is increasing contrary to the theory of relativity''
 
:This could be a counterexample to both GR and Newtonian gravity--in both, the eccentricity is defined in terms of conserved quantities.  
 
:This could be a counterexample to both GR and Newtonian gravity--in both, the eccentricity is defined in terms of conserved quantities.  
3: ''Subatomic particles have a speed observed to be faster than the speed of light, which contradicts a fundamental assumption of Relativity.[4] The Italian lab that "shocked the scientific world" has announced more precise results, confirming their previous announcement''
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:Saying this a bit prematurely, aren't you?
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3: ''Subatomic particles have a speed observed to be faster than the speed of light, which contradicts a fundamental assumption of Relativity.[4] The Italian lab that "shocked the scientific world" has announced more precise results, confirming their previous announcement''.
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:This is an interesting observation.  The world's best scientific minds are looking into it.  That relativity is incorrect is not being taken seriously as a possible explanation.
    
4: ''The Pioneer anomaly.''
 
4: ''The Pioneer anomaly.''
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27: ''Relativity requires different values for the inertia of a moving object: in its direction of motion, and perpendicular to that direction. This contradicts the logical principle that the laws of physics are the same in all directions.''
 
27: ''Relativity requires different values for the inertia of a moving object: in its direction of motion, and perpendicular to that direction. This contradicts the logical principle that the laws of physics are the same in all directions.''
:This is merely a restatement of item 10, (see above).
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:The rules for calculating inertia and other questions of mechanics are well known.  The inertia, that is, the way that a force affects an object's momentum, is well known.  Hundreds of physics textbooks discuss this in great detail, in terms of the Lorentz transform and the concepts of the force and momentum 4-vectors.  The "inertia" comes from what is now called the mass, which used to be called the "rest mass".  Archaic treatments formulated this in terms of the "relativistic mass", which was different.  The mass is a scalar, and has no direction.  The formulas for calculating the motion in terms of forces, in the direction of motion or transverse to it, are well known.
    
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35: ''Minkowski space is predicated on the idea of four-dimensional vectors of which one component is time.  However, one of the properties of a vector space is that every vector have an inverse.  Time cannot be a vector because it has no inverse.''
 
35: ''Minkowski space is predicated on the idea of four-dimensional vectors of which one component is time.  However, one of the properties of a vector space is that every vector have an inverse.  Time cannot be a vector because it has no inverse.''
:Time isn't a vector.  It is a component of the vector space known as "spacetime".
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:Time isn't a vector.  It is a component of the vector space known as "spacetime". Vectors have negatives; the word "inverse" is not typically used here.  While there are thermodynamic and other reasons for not allowing time to go backwards in the real world, the mathematics of spacetime allow vectors with any components, even negative ones.
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38: ''Experiments in electromagnetic induction contradict Relativity: "Einstein's Relativity ... can not explain the experiment in graph 2, in which moving magnetic field has not produced electric field."''
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:The first cited reference, from which the quote was taken, is a totally crackpot web page, from a web site that seems to specialize in hosting crackpot papers.  The writing is essentially illiterate and incoherent, as in this sentence: "According to Faraday's Law it can be explained as that, duo to the magnetic flux in conductor line changing, firstly induced electromotive force dU coming from the line-winded conductor to bring out voltage, then based on differential form <math>I = \frac{-\sigma s dU}{dl}</math> of Ohm's Law, the physical natural would be regarded as 'voltage before electric current' "
    
== References ==
 
== References ==
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