Tony:
The poll you created with this thread is useless. General Relativity is a classical theory, so the two choices you have provided are not really any different from one another. Option 1 is correct: GR can explain gravitational waves and estimate their strength. Option 2 is just over-reach: who's to know if GR is the only theory that can explain gravitational waves? It does explain gravitational waves, but I'm sure there are many variants and some alternatives that also attempt to explain them. Any future quantum theory of gravity will have to be able to explain them. After all, we know they are real. We have detected them.
Easy claim to make; hard to support.
Show me one contradiction in SR or GR. Should be easy enough, if the theories are as fragile as you claim. Let's make it easier for you. Start with contradictions in SR. If that fails due to contradiction, as you claim, then GR should surely fail, too.
They are, physically and mathematically, very elegant theories. You'd need to know some maths to really appreciate it.
I see what you tried to do, there. Unfortunately for you, even if you can't understand it, the theory of relativity is science.
I really can't shake the position of the religion of relativity created by Einstein, not only me, but also the physics academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Sciences, they can't shake it, but they all clearly realize that GR and SR are a kind of fallacy. I can provide a video of these people being interviewed by China Central Television in China. Among them, academician Shiing-Shen Chern has repeatedly expressed that Einstein's mathematics is very bad, and his theory is incorrect. Chern is Einstein's colleague at Princeton University. Einstein invited him to join GR research many times, but Chern refused, because Chern believed that GR is wrong, and he didn't want to cooperate with such a meaningless theory. In addition to Chen, there were several well-known professors at Princeton University who also believed that Einstein's work was meaningless.
I gave the video links, but they are all in Chinese. If you have friends who can speak Chinese, you can ask them to help translate into English.
清华大学天文物理教授,中国科学院院士,李惕碚(Professor of Astrophysics at Tsinghua University, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tipei Lee)
爱因斯坦到死都无法圆他的相对论
https://www.zhihu.com/zvideo/1566495416065097728
普林斯顿大学数学教授,美国科学院院士,陈省身(Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, member of the American Academy of Sciences. Shiing-Shen Chern)
爱因斯坦的没用
https://www.zhihu.com/zvideo/1522529795673473024
James R, I can often hear those GR believers in China say how beautiful GR is. Can you use your graceful GR to calculate the orbital data of each planet in the solar system? You should show the beauty of GR, not just talk about it.
James R, have you heard the fable "The Emperor's New Clothes"? You are exactly the same as the minister inside.
When Einstein was alive, he was almost mentally broken by his own stupid theories, but after his death, the GR believers stripped off his coat and put on the emperor's new clothes, Einstein became god. By now, followers of Einstein's religion have spread all over the world. GR is successful as a religion, but it is not science, and it should not take the place of science, which is the misfortune of mankind.