Think Relativity is confusing? Well, it's not just you -- even the experts can't seem to agree on its meaning, and often get basic facts about the formalism completely wrong. Here, we critique one such renowned professional who, in claiming to be clarifying the standardized theory of relativity, turns out to actually be promoting a misguided personal interpretation. What is this expert's confusion exactly, and why are such misconceptions so prevalent amongst the physics community?

Indeed, be cautious of posturers, gaslighters, stigmatizers, and Giordano-Bruno-burners who want to convince you that your inability to understand Relativity stems from your own deficient reasoning -- because when even the experts can't agree, you know there is something up...

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A link to minutephysics twin paradox video:
   • Complete Solution To The Twins Paradox  
(Note that where minutephysics says that there are "gaps" in the accelerated observer's accounting for time, this is the phenomenon of accelerative time-contraction, i.e. where observers perceive gravitational fields/time speeding up.)

Some of Einstein's Relevant Papers:

His 1905 Special Relativity Paper:
https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...
His 1914 (not 1913) Paper "On the Relativity Problem":
https://einsteinpapers.press.princeto...
His 1918 discussion of the Twin Paradox and the Gravity-based solution:
https://einsteinpapers.press.princeto...
His 1920 lecture at the University of Leiden on the ether:
https://einsteinpapers.press.princeto...


Contents:
00:00 - Intro
01:11 - The Many Interpretations of Relativity
04:55 - Examining Sabine's Interpretation, Pt. 1
08:30 - Examining Sabine's Interpretation, Pt. 2
10:58 - The Source of Confusion
12:12 - Are There Better Interpretations?