Why is special relativity still denied today?

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Ed Gerck, Ph.D." <egerck () gmail com>
> Date: July 6, 2018 at 16:51:07 GMT+9
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Why is special relativity still denied today?
>
> Dear David and list,
>
> We are investigating this question, in an open discussion at 
> https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_is_special_relativity_still_denied_today
> Without special relativity, there is no electromagnetism, there is no magnetic field. No light, radio, TV, laser, 
> ICs,  Internet, MRI.
> Maxwell's equations in electromagnetism were already covariant with special relativity in 1865, before Einstein was 
> even born in 1879.
> Conversely, special relativity confirms electromagnetism, easily. 
> These are mathematical facts, objective to any observer, and follow experimental facts, denied by none: a magnetic 
> field exists, it is real, and is predictive of effects.
> This is also a two-way proof, no matter where one starts from, electromagnetism or special relativity, the same 
> result is obtained: the magnetic field exists.
> Hence, light exists as a consequence. The very existence of light, that everyone can see, therefore also proves that 
> special relativity is true, undeniable, existing since the Big-Bang, 13.772 billion years ago to the end of mass, the 
> foreseeable end of this universe.
> Other consequences are that the electric and magnetic fields are not independent, and they must have the same unit 
> (and that is why physicists reject the MKS and the old UK Imperial System, but accept CGS or so-called natural units 
> of Max Planck and others).
> Special relativity is, thus, at the basis of these decisions, in the very fabric of physics, even when the 
> center-of-mass does not move relative to you, it is at stand still, as in a permanent magnet bar in your hand, in 
> your office, on Earth. Macroscopically at rest, but not microscopically...
> But not physics -- the old philosophical principle wins, Know Thyself. Your own body obeys special relativity, and 
> that affects your MRI (magnetic resonance imaging).
> Why, then, is special relativity still denied today, in 2018, even by educated people, and misused?
>
> Cheers,
> Ed Gerck



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