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BTW, there's nothing stubborn about stating what is known to be outside of logic.
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I agree, but then logic does not necessarily reflect practical common sense, nor does it always represent truth.
I could continue to bait you as you fall ever deeper into your own conclusions, conclusions based on erroneous premises, which premises begin with reasoning like
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as light couldn't travel fast enough to reach our eyes
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...false because light doesn't actually travel at all. It is emitted through the wave behaviour of the outer orbitals of atoms by their interactions with other atoms. You are right in saying that we would not be able to see each other in each other's rocket ships because we would be travelling faster than the rate of atomic interaction would permit us to see each other but our molecules would be no less structurally integral then they are now for we would still occupy a still frame of reference with respect to the environment outside of our rocket ships.
I've been pointing out the inherent flaws of math-dependent theories for some time, and that is why while I respect SR and GR I do not hold them up as unconditional and pure. The two do not always agree because they are math independent and that pretty much proves my point.
You will come around to a truer appreciation of the nature of reality when you accept the fact that photons don't scoot across the universe, that photonic "energy" is merely an effect which can only be quantified by the energy required to produce it and that light is static and does not move and that the modulated characteristics of which propagate atom by atom.
You firmly believe in the finite matter and infinite space Universe. No doubt then you have found a new function for the cosmolgical constant. I maintain that the Universe can only be observed from within and that space and matter are created in a continual process occurring at the periphery. Beyond these two basic disagreements that you and I have, ie. light behaviour and the model of the Universe, our theories converge in many ways, and I find that intriguing.