To Astrowannabe (#7)

That comment truly shows the situation here and ended with the comment about maybe you should actually read the original post. That is precisely the situation on the board , and also the other situation your posts pointed out very well also. And, that is that a whole lot of people here are ASSUMING the exact same thing you assumed, as to how could all those people reading Einstein's papers and everything for 101 years be wrong.

Well, the math and science facts show the factual error, and you can try to figure out why that occurred for 101 years, because it did.

For what it's worth, what Einstein likely did for sure was that he had his mind so deep into his new theory thought and all of the calculation methods he had thought of to get to the ultimate explanation of how everything came into existence (E=mc^2) that he missed the extremely easy first part. The second factor that the synch calcs had the ultra-high velocity of the speed of light squared also led to the situation where no one would actually do the calculations. This led to no one actually doing a simple math check.

Most scientists wouldn't have checked such a simple math error like that when it came from a significant physicist either, and just fell into the trap of the assumption of Einstein's that the synchronization in the moving system was the same as in stationary.

It obviously was not a concoction by Einstein, but there are several elements that are hidden in the science logic direction that led fully right into the total trap situation. If you look at the description you can see the elements that caused the hiding of the truth concerning synchronization.

Another huge trap part was the situation that you normally use only time to accomplish synchronizing. But, Einstein changed this and instead of time he used distance and velocity, which combined by dividing distance by velocity equals the time involved. The point of this is the repelcement for time caused another confusing element to the total trap. And, a whole lot of people fell head-first into the trap also. I think it was all because of the items described here.