To AGN Fuel (#25)

Your first point is a good point, but it doesn't change the end truth in science. The actual situation described in Einstein's first paper is that there are four clocks involved, with two in the stationary viewpoint and one at each end of the moving rod. And, all four clocks are synchronized in the beginning.

The situation though is that the mirror on the rod end B is still involved in the non-equal light travel distance on the rod system and therefore still factually the non-synchronous situation. And, as described in my first post the rod viewers are seeing a slower velocity in the light travel from A to B, and a slower light velocity in the light going back. This is the view of those on the rod. The viewed velocities are another non-synchronization violation if thought of from the rod view.

The full truth of science is that the observers in the stationary viewpoint and those on the rod were not seeing the situations that were needed for comparing synchronous situations.

What Einstein was actually trying to do was to prove that the rod changed length. It didn't and doesn't, and is only a mistaken use of synchronization and viewpoint confusion.

Your last sentence about synchronization is lost is missing one huge fact. The clock synchronization in the beginning was setting the hands on the clocks to show the same clock setting. At the end of the rod moving test it is a fact that all four clocks that had been set to show the same setting for time, were also all four showing the same later setting that occurred later. The clock settings didn't change one single bit. You are confusing clock settings with time.

With that, the true situation is that the rod movement had absolutely no affect on the clock settings at all, and the real situation is that the rod movement and the changing location of the mirror at B then gave a false synchronization appearance. And, as I have described the false synchronization and non-equal situation occurred when the distance charged in the stationary viewpoint and the velocities changed in the moving rod viewpoint. Truth in science is that in BOTH view points a critically required equal component changed.

So, Einstein is still factually proven to be completely and fully wrong by real science and math.