I instantaneously rejected the sheer nonsense perpetrated by authors Martin Gardner and Bertrand Russell upon stumbling into their books on special relativity in my high school library. It was my first exposure to, or awareness of, relativity.

Gardner's "There is no truth of the matter" is in lock step with the madness of countless other self-deluded purveyors of "arbitrariness" in relativity.

They are unable to overcome the equating of
"symmetry of measure" with "no truth of the matter"
simply because they don't want to.

The inherent contradiction is immediate and obvious, yet denied by these frauds who cloak the deception by attempting to elevate spacetime to a physical reality -- in the sense that one can actually travel about in the construct itself -- which simply leads to more absurdities.

The arbitrariness of inertial frames fails upon a change in inertial motion -- as Einstein himself finally tacitly acknowledged, both six and fifteen years after his initial purely arbitrary approach to special relativity.

See: Einstein at Leyden

Any attempt to explain an actual time-keeping differential while forbidding "the actual" is doomed to fail in a purely logical sense; in a purely mathematical sense.

Yet, the physics community, including all "scholarly" articles and textbooks, continues to perpetrate the absurdity and is of course unable to resolve a paradox of its own making.

See: Spacetime
(inertial frames, symmetry of measure, time-keeping)


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