I am busy making a serious in depth study of relativity, focusing on Feynman and Penrose
and i am just about cracking
as it just blatantly seems that relativity is total bunk!
I'm still trying to salvage some parts of the special theory,
but am finding it impossible to agree with ANY of it.
Is this the most classic case of the Emperor's new clothes or what?
Seriously, Mayflow, you're good with math, and you think for yourself too!
do you think the Lorentz transformations actually work?
Specifically
if my mass increases relative to your velocity,
then if Lavender is moving away from me faster than you are
then I appear to weigh more relative to her than i do relative to you?
so the scale under my feet will give a different reading
depending on how fast you or her are moving?
wtf?
i have loads of other misgivings about it,
not the least that fluctuations in mercury's orbit
are easily explained by quantum time
and that Einstein's equations (if they work)
should fluctuate mercury's orbit in the OTHER direction.
hmm?
help!