Copernicus_Meme

Well, Einstein's mention of it had to do with the metric field of GR, there was no preferred state attached to it. Hence, it is concistent at least as far as one of his basic contributions goes, ie no essential difference between a resting and moving frame of reference, therefor he wasn't really precluding a reference frame relative to the aether as so. As general bit of relevant curiosa, in his own words;

I appreciate the heartfelt yet distinctly cerebral welcome, it's good to be here.

Impossible? On the contrary, validated up the yin yang so to speak. Here are a few sources on the experimental basis of SR (that's Special Relativity); The Michelson and Gale Experiment (Nature 115 (1925), pg 566; Astrophys. J. 61 (1925), pg 137.) g−2 Experiments as a Test of Special Relativity: Newman et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 40 no. 21 (1978), pg 1355. P.S. Cooper et al., Physical Review Letters 42 (1979), pg 1386. Farley et al., Nuovo Cimento Vol 45, pg 281 (1966). Bailey et al., Nuovo Cimento 9A, pg 369 (1972). Bailey et al., Phys. Lett. 68B no. 2 (1977), pg 191. The Brookhaven experiment to measure g−2 for muons, http://www.g-2.bnl.gov/ The Fizeau Experiment: Bilger et al., Phys. Rev. A5 (1972) pg 591. James and Sternberg, Nature 197 (1963), pg 1192. Particle-Based Experiments: Nguyen, H.H., “CPT results from KTeV”, (2001). arXiv:hep-ex/0112046. Schwingenheuer, B. et al., “CPT tests in the neutral kaon system”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 74, pg 4376–4379, (1995). Carey, R.M. et al., “New Measurement of the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Positive Muon”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 82, pg 1632–1635, (1999). (Reinhardt's Ph.D. thesis, 2005) Calorimetric Test of Special Relativity: .R. Walz, H.P. Noyes and R.L. Carezani, Physical Review A29 (1984), pg 2110. Twin Paradox: C. Alley, “Proper Time Experiments in Gravitational Fields with Atomic Clocks, Aircraft, and Laser Light Pulses,” in Quantum Optics, Experimental Gravity, and Measurement Theory, eds. Pierre Meystre and Marlan O. Scully, Proceedings Conf. Bad Windsheim 1981, 1983 Plenum Press New York, ISBN 0-306-41354-X, pg 363–427. Bailey et al., “Measurements of relativistic time dilation for positive and negative muons in a circular orbit,” Nature 268 (July 28, 1977) pg 301. Doppler Shift Measurements: McGowan et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 70 no. 3 (1993), pg 251. Olin et al., Phys. Rev. D8 no. 6 (1973), pg 1633. Mandelberg and Witten, Journal Opt. Soc. Amer. 52, pg 529 (1962). Measurements of Particle Lifetimes: D. Frisch and J. Smith, “Measurement of the Relativistic Time Dilation Using Mesons”, Am. J. Phys. 31 (1963) 342. Ayres et al., Phys. Rev. D3 no. 5 (1971), pg 1051. The Ives and Stilwell Experiment: H.E. Ives and G.R. Stilwell, “An Experimental Study of the Rate of a Moving Atomic Clock”, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 28 pg 215–226 (1938); JOSA 31 pg 369–374 (1941). Other Experiments: Coleman and Glashow, “Cosmic ray and Neutrino Tests of Special Relativity”, Coleman and Glashow, “High-Energy Tests of Lorentz Invariance” The Trouton-Noble Experiment: Tomaschek, Ann. d Phys. 78 (1926), p743; 80 (1926), pg 509. Zhang, "Special Relativity and its Experimental Foundations". The Kennedy-Thorndike Experiment Wolf and Petit, “Satellite test of special relativity using the global positioning system”, Phys. Rev. A 56, p4405 (1997). http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/experiments.html A couple of more articles: *Relativity in the Global Positioning System http://www.physorg.com/news9248.html

It appears to me that you are projection your emotional frustration into it. For example, if I had told you I was much taller than people I would normaly meet, would I be arrogant and insisting on my own superior height? Of course not. While people do make arguments in the vein "I'm smarter therefor I am a better human", it doesn't mean that when stating an observed aspect one is necessarily arrogant. On intelligence, if we step away from standardized testing to the realm of gifted people, can we agree that not every person has the same inherent potential of becoming a new Mozart or Gene Krupa (for a more recent example of gifted musician)? As an off-shot on the standardized g, it is not as frequently correlated, ie gifted musical abilities and sense with high performance on standardized tests. For example, and yes this is an anecdotal reference but only included as a curiosa. I have a cousin who, for as long as I can remember (yearly toddler years and forth), taught himself the guitar, drums and the piano. Now, we spent a lot of time together and I really tried to keep up with him, to even learn the basic beats. His ability was, as I am convinced, quite innate, to express himself and his senses through the ability to learn a variety of musical instruments, read notes without ever having been taught by anyone, pick scales from a half-busted tape, perfectly. Now, it would be strange of all manners of notably innate traits as so would not include general cognitive ability as for mathematics for example, let's skip the standardized IQ format and just go with the observable ability. I do not care what enviromental variable is introduced, off all the people in my mathematics class the potential and deliverence thereof was anything but equal, for some it was as easy as picking a flower up from the side of the road, they hardly had to read the books or listen to the teacher, yet for others all the extra hours of number crunching just didn't help the fact that they did not have the cognitive ability suited for mathematics. Ergo, no we can not all become Einstein peers of ability and understanding, let alone deliverance. Being different, wether innately or by enviromental factors alone is one thing, it does not necessarily mean that one is a better human being, worth more since "worth" is probably the most complex, subjective and multifacetted abstract word there is.