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RE: What does moving through Space and Time mean?
The thought occurred to me now that names like 'the theory of relativity' bolster the impression, among some people, that everything is subjective. (Even though there's no relation between Einstein's physics and, for instance, morality, still the name itself can act as a psychological booster to the idea that all impressions are subjective.) But actually, it could equally well have been dubbed 'the theory of objective relations', because once you decide on a frame of reference, the relation is objective.
You are absolutely correct, Alex. Even anybody who's clever enough can come up with ingenious theories about the universe, relativity and what have you. But it's just that the success of a theory lies in its explanatory power and its predictive ability. Part of what Einstein came to do was to explain a fact that Newton's laws couldn't.
Thanks for coming by, @alexander.alexis