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Old 30-June-2009, 02:02 PM
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That is the “Counter-intuitive” difference to our everyday thinking…we normally think that if we are in the same room with others, or at the ballgame, etc, that we are all in the same Now. We are not. Even if we both see something ‘simultaneously’, our “Nows”, are still separated by the distance between us!

The above “Falsify’s” Special Relativity, just as it stands, with none of the additional refutations below, but enough of them need to be covered for a full understanding!
It seems to me that those concerns are addressed in the first part of Einstein's original paper (translated copy).