A challenge to non-SRians

From: Paul Miller (aksuited_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: 28 Jul 2004 15:01:15 -0700

Greetings all,

I was recommended to look at this newsgroup by a physicist friend of
mine - I'm not a physicist, nor a mathematician, nor do I claim any
understanding of relativity. However, having read a lot of messages
over the past couple of hours, I've come to two conclusions:

1. there are a lot of people here who seem to be very certain that
relativity is wrong.
2. I think they're wrong.

point 2 is not based on any understanding of the theory on my part,
just a judgement from the dialogue I've read. I'm not interested in
getting into any of the debates on this; I've got a much simpler
proposition. I'm willing to bet (a lot) that the non-SRians can't
design and run an experiment that falsifies Einstein's special theory
of relativity. I'm confident enough to offer odds of 100-1, up to a
limit of $100,000. That is, you risk $1000 to win $100,000. Naturally,
there are some conditions to this bet, but the principle is simple.
All you have to do is to specify exactly what predictions you think SR
would make, and how you would test this in an experiment (and not some
useless thought experiment, this has to be a real experiment that we
can feasibly do). If you're curious, this isn't the first proposition
bet I've made, although it would be the largest.

I am absolutely serious on this. If you *know* that SR is wrong,
surely you can come up with a way to win the $100,000?

Cheers,

Paul Miller

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