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You must appreciate that he is seen as a crackpot by the converted, however he has at least tried some explanations for the against case.
I must say looking at his site I wonder why I bother at all but sadly he and I must have a similar problem of acceptance.
Time is a curley one.. if you think what we use as the prime unit (a year) that is something that could not have exsisted 7 billion years ago as there was no Earth (a reasonable presumption) to orbit the Sun and provide the marker... and no doubt from that approach each year is slightly longer or shorter that the one proceeding it... is time therefore flexible because the standard of measurement itself can not keep constant and consistent time...and as such backhandly says we therefore invented time upon our first realization of night and day... for the other side a lodgical reply to that proposition would suffice.
But obviously the acceptance of the time dialation thing is something I can not bring myself to do at this point as I simply have no faith in its extrapolation into reality.
In the example I offerred if nothing else it has allowed me to point clearly to my proposition and demonstrate why I can not accept the effect is real.
Past this point it can only become a matter where I seek to prove I am right and others are wrong which realistically is a no win situation. These arguments fall into a group where if one feels they are losing ground it is only because they have failed to make their point clear enough to be immediately excepted by those present... I teeter on that point.. and pull back. I need not to shore up my confidence as a debater using this medium so I leave it to be what it is ..my comments on a impossibly hypeathetical situation that can not be decided by proof acceptable to me in my life time.
Still I doubt if I dont have more to say in the future.
alex
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