Refuting Phillip Dennis’s Errors in Physics, ASC, and Philosophy – Part 9
In this article we expose and refute some of Phillip Dennis’s mistakes in physics in his latest attempt to overthrow the conventionality thesis of relativity. Recall that the conventionality thesis is the position that the one-way speed of light is not a property of nature, but a stipulated convention by which a given observer judges whether two clocks separated by some distance are synchronized. I showed in my first refutation of Dennis that he had arbitrarily assumed the ESC convention in his attempt to establish the ESC convention over ASC (Lisle 2024). But this is the fallacy of begging the question. I also showed in this same paper that the conventionality thesis follows logically from the relativity of simultaneity (Lisle 2024).