Atomic clocks measure time, and so do all those other you mentioned. Atomic clocks are merely the most accurate clocks we've ever made.
So what is this gibberish about the lorentz atomic clock rule? I've never, ever heard of that.
Great, newton labeled a medium called Aether in 1704, and einstein said his space-time had some properties (in a very specific sense, did you catch that part of the quote: in this sense...) similar to that.
Just like someone can say: The earth is round, like an orange. It doesn't mean the earth is an orange, just that it shares some qualities.
Oh yea, and Of all the newtonian and classical mechanics I've studied over the years, not once has "gravity bending light" been attributed to any of Newtons work.
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No, the stronger the field, the more slowly light propagates, and the stronger the field the more slowly the atoms oscillate, and they emit light at a lower frequency. The ?redshift? occurs as the light is being emitted by a slowly oscillating atom. The slow speed of the light emerging from a gravity well does not contribute to the redshift. The light is emitted already redshifted. Read Einstein?s 1911 theory about this. He explains it.
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Okay, how can you understand and accept that, but get so much of his other stuff wrong?
BTW, the speed of light is constant, even in a gravity well. Its the fact that time is so distorted that the osscillation rate is percieved as all screwed up.