"Hopefully, our James A. Putnam will also at least flexibilize his opinion concerning allegedly proven time dilution."
You are not reading what I write. I did not say that Time dilation was proven. Time does not dilate. What I say is that the effect called time-dilation is real. The effect does not involve anything other than changes in the rates of object activity. There has never been any experimentation upon either space or time. There has never been empirical evidence for space or time causing effects or suffering effects. The 't' in physics equations has never represented time. It has always represented a measure of object activity. The unit for 'time', the second, is not a unit of time. It is what it is designed to be, a unit of object activity.