So in the absence of comment I must assume that general relativity is wrong and/as no one will/can defend it ...that is no surprise given the observations (pioneer anomaly) that says it is wrong....wrong means ..it wont fit our current sums...GR gives us our current wrong sums.
Either that is correct or folks have grown tired of facing the facts that GR lets us down when we apply it to space rather than models etc ...
Observation shows an undeniable reality, the pioneer anomaly is an observed reality whereas the mind games of hypothetical lifts (or elevators) in space open opportunity to corrupt reality to fit the desired result...
I wonder how folk of the future will judge us given our desire to hold onto an idea that clearly does not hold up when we move out of our solar system (unless we invoke darl matter etc)...no doubt they will look upon us as fools who believe in the abstract rather than our observation...
and to accept that the forces of accelleration experienced in a hypothetical lift in space can lead us to a conception of how things work is rather stupid they will certainly think... to try to work out how things work based upon human experience is rather arogant if not stupid some folk may feel.
Until the poineer anomaly is explained there is no other conclusion we can arrive at other than general relativity stands as a nonsense..perhaps we should consider it is crap because it does not work .GR does not fit observation ...maybe that is unacceptable but it is that simple ..it works or it does not ..and the pioneer simply tells us that GR does not work.. if otherwise is correct GR will explain what we observe rather than what we can fancy on paper as reality.
If science demands observation fits the math then GR must bow to such a demand...as it can not do this it seems GR is wrong....it fails to meet the simple demand that its predictions can be observered as a reality that humans can witness...witness the pioneer and GR fails...
To leave the pioneer anomaly unexplained means our science is wrong....wrong...wrong ...wrong... GR is wrong.
AND given the facts and observation it appears that no one is able to save the premise of GR ....
In my humble view.
alex
