@gungasnake,
Gung I find this stuff most interesting, and many thanks. However, some of its assertions are questionable. For instance, the slowing of a clock by motion or gravitation has been demonstrated repeatedly
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=relativity+slowing+of+moving+atomic+clock
As for action at a distance, I can't believe these ruminations conclusive (yes, no, is
anything conclusive). However because yardwork calls I must apologize for not sitting through it
....most such links much too time-consuming, should be condensed in text for the speed-reader...
Incidentally, my long interest in relativity has prompted me to wonder if Einstein was only partly right: I myself have a most ridiculous theory that questions simultaneity itself, which if you're at all interested
http://able2know.org/topic/187876-1
It suggests that simultaneity itself is a relative concept, perhaps also the speed of light (so I call it "relative relativity") and also resolves the Twin Paradox to the complete satisfaction of the intuition. But don't reject it on the basis of my hasty conclusion that the speed of light could be infinite, a claim I withdraw in later OP's