Only one chap has had the courage to try to refute BBP by means of an explicit mathematical treatment. It can be viewed at this link:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/what-about-the-big-ben-paradox.1057911/post-6989035
Indeed, he was so proud of his effort that he reposted it on physics.stackexchange here:
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/768152/big-ben-paradox
I note that this fellow is a moderator in both forums and that both postings were made AFTER the BBP thread had been officially closed to all comment in each forum. So I was barred from making a counter argument. I also note that even though the poster
is a PhD and a physics instructor, his case against the BBP is of the quality one might expect from Latitia James, Alvin Bragg or Fans Willis...in other words, ridiculously convoluted and baroque. Even so, it has at least one clearly visible and fatal
error that proves MY case; namely, that the BBP is the death of relativity. Can anyone spot the error? It occurs in one of the short lines of the proof.
A final note: General Relativity was not used in his refutation. There is not a tensor to be found. Only algebraic approximations. I suppose he is to be forgiven for this, inasmuch as GR is an entirely unusable branch of mathematical physics. Even
when the largest and fastest computers are used.
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