I think I've found the dumbest application of Special Relativity
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Time is relative, just not to man. Relativity's dumbness is idolatry followed to its logical end.
By the same logic, Newtonian mechanics is wrong for taking reason and the material world as the only givens. It inevitably leads to a kind of relativity.
The problem I'm getting at is: How can we know there isn't some way of placing relativity in the right context? If it makes accurate, testable predictions, unlike evolution and psychology, what is wrong with it? Every physical science confined to its own domain is tautologically relative. What makes the theory of relativity uniquely problematic?
What is time relative to then?
Newtonian mechanics is limited to the natural world obviously and Newton doesn't make claims about metaphysics. The problem with relativity and any modern "theory of everything" is that it rejects metaphysics on one hand but delves deep into it and tries to explain metaphysical concepts through physics (dark matter, ultimate nature of reality, the nature of time and space, causality beginning and ending of the universe, black holes). It has transgressed its limitations and went into philosophy and religion territory. This explains why much of modern science is tied to occult practices and movements like Thelema and theosophy (look at the origins of NASA and what Jack Parsons did).
Most scientismo spergs don't even realize this because they have zero knowledge of anything outside their field and think philosophy is a bunch of gobbledygook.
But I agree that general relativity can have some application. It's usefulness and profundity is vastly overstated though.