[wendy1946]

(Related: "Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe?")...

Always being the one to have to disillusion the feeble-minded is a dirty and thankless job, but somebody's gotta do it.

Relativity is a bunch of BS, black holes are a bunch of BS, the "Bit Bang(TM)" is a bunch of BS, and the one universe which we observe and live in is the only one that there is. Relativity was based entirely on thought experiments and not on any sort of real evidence. Thought experiments are not a rational basis for physics.

[cripplecreek]

Relativity was based entirely on thought experiments and not on any sort of real evidence. Thought experiments are not a rational basis for physics.

So how do you explain the physical evidence of clocks measuring slower time at high rates of speed and altitude? Clocks in orbit have to be recalibrated on a regular basis to keep them synchronized with clocks on earth.

[drtom]

Thought experiments are not a rational basis for physics.

That is not correct. Most theories-turned-laws in physics originated in an observation that could not be explained at the time. Hypotheses about the physical explanation emerge which then evolve into theories which are meant do be refuted, often in the span of decades. If a theory cannot be disproven it evolves into a lemma or construct. Special relativity has been proven hundreds of times over. General relativity is generally accepted (at least the concept that gravity influences time has been accepted). QED is another example of a framework that started as a hypothesis which is now generally accepted.

[LomanBill]

>>Relativity was based entirely on thought experiments

But relativistic time differentials have been observed - and are thus compensated for in various technologies.

In the GPS System for example.

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=gps+relativity+correction

That does not confirm science fictions like time travel or multiverses, however.

Begin with the assumption that time is a derivative function of state change - the rate of which is relevant to the inertial frame(s) in which it is being observed... and Special Relativity returns to reality.

[allmendream]

“Always being the one to have to disillusion the feeble-minded is a dirty and thankless job, but somebody’s gotta do it.”

Hate to break it to you, and disillusion the feeble-minded; but calling theoretical physicists the feeble-minded, in preference to creationists sources(the less you know, the more likely you are to be a creationist) really takes the cake!

Relativity was based upon “thought experiments”, because there were no machines yet built that could test the effect. The machines were built and the theory of relativity came out ACES!

Creationism is based upon “stupidity experiments” and that is not a rational basis for understanding the physical world.