Sunil said:
Your "there is still today no constructive account of time dilation and length contraction" remains wrong even if the existing constructive accounts are ignored by the mainstream and Peter Donis does not like to see that particular reference.
I don't understand why mentioning Schmelzer's theory as a clear counterexample of a published paper is wrong simply because that theory has been "sufficiently discussed" in Peter Donis' opinion (in threads I was unable to identify - what I have found using the search engine here was not even a serious start of a discussion).
It is not my aim to question the existing principle theories. Without doubt, they remain useful tools. For example, if one wants to develop new theories, and prove they have the appropriate limit, all one has to do is to check if those principles hold in that limit.
I did cite Brown & Timpson in this paper and we have cited others who advocate a dynamical account of SR in other papers:
@book{brownbook,
author = {Harvey Brown},
title = {Physical Relativity: Spacetime Structure from a Dynamical Perspective},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
address = {Oxford, UK},
year = {2005}
}
@incollection{brownpooley2006,
title ="Minkowski Space-Time: A Glorious Non-Entity",
author ="H. Brown and O. Pooley",
booktitle ="The Ontology of Spacetime",
editor ="D. Dieks",
year ="2006",
pages ="67",
publisher ="Elsevier",
address ="Amsterdam"
}
@inbook{brownTimp2006,
publisher={Springer},
location={Berlin},
title={Why special relativity should not be a template for a fundamental reformulation of quantum mechanics},
booktitle={Physical Theory and Its Interpretation: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Bub},
author={H. Brown and C. Timpson},
editor={W. Demopoulos and I. Pitowsky},
year={2006},
pages={29-41},
note={\url{
https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0601182}}
}
Those authors are cited and acknowledged in foundations of physics. I just haven't seen anything cited or discussed about actual theories of the aether anywhere. Once such a theory reaches that level of recognition in the physics community, I will certainly reference them.