General Relativity:

A contemporary
Emperor's Clothes
tale
Adapted for the Internet from:

Why God Doesn't Exist

    Summary

    Relativity is a rerun of the tale of The Emperor's New Clothes. Einstein's space-time is a myth like
    the king's robes were a myth. And those who gawk at space-time today are as gullible as those
    stupid fools who made up His Excellency's entourage in Andersen's tale. The mathematicians
    have convinced each other of the greatest whopper ever to come out of cultivated minds. They
    have placed so much blind faith in equations, functions, matrices, and numbers that reality is
    increasingly farther and farther away from receiving even a moderately satisfactory explanation.
    The morons of Mathematics don't even question any more whether the physical interpretations
    they offer for the real world are rational. Quite the contrary! The more irrational the explanation,
    the wider the acceptance within the mathematical community. The idiots of Mathematics are so
    proud of their dualities and paradoxes that they're not even attempting to resolve them.

    In order to get their points across, however, the mathematicians had no alternative but to rely on
    written and spoken language. Specifically, relativists use analogies to convince each other and
    the public that their equations are consistent with the real world. Here I show that the physical
    interpretations that relativists offer for natural phenomena (i.e., their analogies) are either
    supernatural or irrational. I argue that relativity is an unscientific discipline. Relativity is nothing
    but a religion of the 'educated' classes. Only fools --  people with no street-smartness --  gawk
    when they hear about relativity and space-time and black holes!

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    Relativists pointed to the empty looms, and the poor old mathematician stared as hard as he
    dared. He couldn't see anything, because there was nothing to see. 'Heaven have mercy,' he
    thought.' Can it be that I'm a fool. I'd have never guessed it, and not a soul must know. Am I
    unfit to be a relativist?'
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    'But he hasn't got anything on,' a little child said...' 'But he hasn't got anything on,' the whole
    town cried out at last.
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    The relativist shivered, for he suspected they were right. But he thought, 'This procession
    has got to go on.' So he walked more proudly than ever, as his peers held high the train
    that wasn't there at all.
leading astray the powers that be
So? What does thou think,
Bill? How do I look?
My tailors just finished
making these colorful robes
for me.
Jester Bill
Methinks His Excellency looks
uuummm... handsome, aye.
Me Lord should go to tonight's
ball like that.
No! I'll take that back!
Why doesn't My Liege
hold a parade tomorrow and
show off his new wardrobe to
the entire kingdom and to
foreign dignitaries?
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