Is relativity wrong?

[GAspnes]

Okay, provocative title, but I have a friend who steered me to http://www.egtphysics.net/Gravity/Gravity.htm and I'm having trouble finding the flaw in the reasoning.

I think it's at equation (13), where Hatch adds a secondary term for no apparent reason. However, my calculus,not to mention my understanding of Thomas precession, is a bit rusty.

I've gone through the various newsgroups, and on the surface, Hatch seems to be a classic outsider nutjob, but I'd like to understand *why* he's a nutjob. Is there someone who can help me through this?

[hunter]

1. I'm curious -- Why "understand *why* he's a nutjob?"

Jeffery D. Kooistra writes a column in Analog SF/SF. He's always talks about the ether's elasticity too, and he keeps my attention quite well enough that this thread looked interesting to me...

So I went to the web page posted, and skipped right off to the "Philosophical" page where I found the "seven C's" of "common sense preferences."

I decided my own interest in this theory falls apart at "Charm." I didn't find anything compelling there.

This doesn't mean the author is wrong, or that I might not find anything interesting (or more likely incorrect) in his arguments if only I cared to dig a little deeper.

It only means that I didn't care to dig a little deeper. I'm still digging through the latest issue of Scientific American, where gravity is leaking out all over the place.

So now, in order to gather any further attention from me, Mr. Hatch will have to build a working impulse engine that will compliment my own warp drive (to use the common Star Trek analogy.)

I haven't built my warp drive yet, since I'm still waiting on the deed to a missile silo complete with working missile, but I've already got the woman, the booze, and the rock and roll.

My own peculiar hobby happens to be the mapping of our "common sense" universe (those three spatial dimensions and that fourth, very peculiar, dimension of "time") onto three simple and uniform dimensions of space-time.

Alas, I don't think I've reached the point where anyone else would care to know *why* I was a "nutjob." Maybe I ought to be making more noise.