On Jan 28, 9:50*am, Michael Helland wrote:
I noticed most of the anti-relativists get insulting on the personal
level with Einstein and usually anyone that accepts relativity.

Are there any anti-relativists who respect Einstein and the theories?

Not many.

Ilja Schmelzer comes to mind. He is the only aetherist on these
newsgroups who is -not- a crackpot. For years, he has championed
an alternative theory of gravitation based on analogies with
condensed matter physics. His web page is currently undergoing
major revisions.
http://www.ilja-schmelzer.de/

Another extremely civil anti-relativist is Robert Fritzius.
He champions Ritz emission theory.
http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/index.htm

Other than those two, I can't think of any civil anti-relativists,
and Ilja isn't necessarily anti-relativity. Rather, his attempts
to derive GR as an emergent theory arising from more fundamental
principles starts from radically different premises than that taken
by the majority of physicists...

Jerry