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The purpose of most relativity textbooks is to teach students to use, understand and embrace current theory, in order that they can become fully-qualified practitioners. It is considered in the interest of the students not to confuse their minds with the more troubling issues in current theory, lest by failing to "believe", they become sidetracked by troubling inconsistencies in the theory, and become distracted from their studies. Students are taught that special relativity is correct beyond a shadow of a doubt and is to be regarded as fact, that SR testing was carried out to the highest standards, that general relativity is one of the greatest theories of all time, that there are no cracks or flaws in the system, and that everything in the relativistic garden smells lovely.

Unfortunately, none of this is true.

Einstein called the design of his own 1916 general theory "unjustifiable", and the theory was then found to be logically inconsistent in 1960. In short, it was a bad theory. The principles of the relativity of rotation and acceleration are now known to be fundamentally incompatible with the geometry and equations of special relativity (1960), so although Einstein's 1916 theory was designed to incorporate SR, its SR component essentially makes the theory self-destruct. GR was "fudged" in 1960 as a workaround, and is technically no longer a general theory of relativity, or a "principle theory". Then, in the 1970s, we found that the "fudge" also made the resulting system incompatible with quantum mechanics, making GR1960 incompatible with information theory and thermodynamics. Redesigning GR to work properly results in increased nonlinearity, the effects of which now appear to have been seen, but which we prefer to explain away with dark matter.

Other relativistic solutions were rejected without public study, testing procedures were compromised, the significance of evidence was misrepresented, and research into full general relativity was blocked. We were told that a theory of quantum gravity would come along soon that could incorporate GR1960 and QM "as-is", but we've been waiting for half a century for it, and it still hasn't arrived. It may never appear.

In short, the current system of inertial and gravitational physics resembles a plane crash.

On the plus side, if we don't need relativity theory to correspond to the mathematical mess in the current textbooks, the concepts become a lot simpler, and the way forward is not so difficult.

So, welcome to the Twenty-First Century, and congratulations for coming along at the right time. Physics is about to change.