The special theory of relativity has been theoretically disproven in a paper published in spring of 2016.
The paper has cleaned up the definition of physical time and proven that the time of a physical clock is an invariant of the Lorentz Transformation (an invariant of inertial reference frames which are the same as Galilean time). The fact of the invariance of clock time -Lorentz invariance of clock time. Now it is possible to synchronize clocks in any/all inertial reference frames to produce an absolute and universal physical time. This universal physical time is demonstrated in the universal synchronization of all satellite clocks and ground clocks of the global positioning system. GPS has disproven the special theory in this way.
The time of the STR is no longer the physical time measured with physical clocks.
Lorentz Transformation does the same to redefine time and space as functions of Galilean time and space and thus produces an artificially constant speed of light in all inertial reference frames.The time dilation and length contraction of the STR in a moving inertial reference frame are just illusions.
Time can only be measure and not a principal, not physical.
Similarly, Einstein’s space is also not a “thing” that can be warped, bent or folded.
Thanks for your elucidating comments.