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Sort of - experiments can be misinterpreted or self-justifying.

In several experiments where atomic clocks are flown E-W and W-E near the equator, no account is taken of outward centrifugal force v²/r that slightly reduces the gravitional force. There is more reduction when flying W-E at about 2400km/hr with the daily rotation of the Earth than when flying E-W at about 800km/hr against. For a ground based reference clock, at about 1600km/hr, the effect is almost exactly equal to the increased gravity at the lower altitude. The latter was taken into account, based on General Relativity - so why not centrifugal force too? That omission invalidates the evidence for Special Relativity.

In some other experiments, the momentum of high energy particles is pre-scaled by the Lorentz scale factor, resulting in a sub-luminal relativistic speed. The distances travelled by particles before decay are then divided by that relativistic speed. Not surprisely, the half-life time appears to be increased by the exact same value of Lorentz scale factor. So the result is self-justifying.

Time will tell who is thinking about special relativity, logically and with fully explained reasons and diagrams.

Flaws include for example,

1. The time equation for the Lorentz spacetime transform is irrefutably given by T = ϒ(t-vx/c²).

T denotes the time-of-arrival at the observer of an EM emission event that occurred earlier at time t. The Lorentz scale factor ϒ = 1/sqrt(1-v²/c²).

Simply setting v to zero, so that the emitter to observer distance x is constant, and ϒ = 1, leads directly to the impossible, T-t = 0,

i.e. impossible because the propagation delay T-t cannot be zero at finite c over non-zero distance x.

2. Also impossibly, c² = xv/(t-T/ϒ) whereas in physical reality, EM propagation speed c = x/(T-t) as measured inbound to all observers.

3. The alternative is classical Doppler, without the speed limit inherent in the second order version, where the two scale factors are T/t = 1±V/c = V/v.

V is defined as V = x/t, but the remote value of t is not normally available to the observer. So, the observable speed v, as defined by Einstein, is v = x/T and, in the receding case, is sub-luminal.

4. As further evidence, 1+V/c and 1-V/c apply in independent conditions - so any combination is disallowed. That includes disallowing any function of the product 1-v²/c² or 1-V²/c² as deployed in the Lorentz transform.

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