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[Tormod]

Nobody said we couldn't understand your paper. It is a misguided document and does not do any favors towards relativity - it does not enhance understanding of it, it does not make things simpler but *harder* to understand (and you still haven't bothered to fix the spelling of "Einstein").

Our logical mind is not playing tricks on us. The stuff you write about the moon is complete nonsense. The difference in time it takes for the light at the middle of the lunar disk to reach us, as compared to the light at the edges, is so vanishingly small that has absolutely no bearing on anything. And most importantly..it has *no* relevance to special relativity.

We do not grow up in a "Galilean" society. The very fact that space and time has a theoretical beginning and an end in current cosmological models (ie, the big bang model) is firmly rooted in current thinking and has been so for quite a while. If anything, our kids grow up in a Einsteinian society with the addition of the quantum knowledge that we are gaining, where the catchword of the decade is "everything is relative" and Einstein is sold on T-shirts on every corner.

The average John and Jane (and most non-average ones, too) will *never* understand relativity. Nor will they understand Plato's allegory of the cave, for that sake. They do not need to, and they don't care. And it really doesn't help to confuse the matter when you in other threads state that time dilation does not happen - when that very concept is the basis of Einstein's relativity theory.