Re: The true crackpots

mluttgens@xxxxxxxxxx wrote in
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> You are almost right to tell that "SR applies to inertial frames. There
> are really no such frames available on the surface of the earth."
>
> In fact, there are no such frames available in the whole universe,
> meaning that SR is nowhere applicable. How would you call such a theory,
> if not crackpottery.

All theories suffer the same shortcomings.

I would call it 'one of the best among the available theories'. I would say
that it is a subtheory of GR and that, along with GR, EEP, and, of course,
the other laws of physics, it was sufficiently accurate to allow us to send
spacecraft to distant planets.

Absent these 'physically untenable theories', such missions would have
missed their mark by wide margins.

-- bz

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infinite set.

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