relative? smokin'!

[Jonesboy]

Physicists say that when slow people watch fast people, the fast people shrink. It's called the Lorentz contraction. But when the same fast people watch themselves, they don't shrink. A contradiction?

So which is it? do people actually shrink when they go fast or not?

Physicists found a great way of answering that. They threw up a smokescreen and called the contradictory phenomena "relative". Then, to "explain" what relative meant, they replaced time and space with a woolly spacetime. Because spacetime is so woolly, the physicists felt safe in abandoning actual spatiotemporal reality and replacing it with relative spacetime reality.

But let's face it. Should we really think that words like spacetime, and relative, are more than just circular, self-referencing metaphors?
No. We are just as much puzzled by the "Lorentz contraction" after we thought of spacetime, than we were before we thought of spacetime.

[Angry Citizen]

Both general and special relativity have been proven in many different circumstances. Put bluntly, you don't know what you're talking about. Laypeople who doubt the word of scientists end up with egg on their face.

By the way, don't use your GPS system. It exists only because general relativity makes it possible.

[Jonesboy]

I'm not stupid. Of course it's been proven. I agree entirely.