Re: New version of my annotations to SRT

On 2024-04-05 08:00:52 +0000, Thomas Heger said:

Am 10.02.2024 um 09:42 schrieb Mikko:

On 2024-02-10 07:08:11 +0000, Thomas Heger said:
 

Am 08.02.2024 um 10:05 schrieb Mikko:
 

I was actually a HYPOTHETICAL professor (in my role as writer of these
annotations).
 The method goes like this:
 imagine you were a professor and had to write corrections for the
homework of a student (Albert Einstein in this case).
 The 'homework' is the text in question ('On the electrodynamics of
moving bodies' in this case).
 So my 'duty' would be to write annotations, where I give the student a
few hints, how to avoid errors next time.
 I found 428 errors in Einstein's text and therefore wrote so many
annotations.

 As the hypothesis that you be a professor is counterfactual, so
is the hypothesis that the annotations be worth of consideration.

 I have not said, that I'm a professor.

 Doesn't matter, your annotations wouldn't be worth of consderation
even if you were.

 I don't see it like that.
 In science any critique should be dealt with, from wherever this critique may come.

"On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" is a historical document.
After its publication science has moved on so much that no comment
to it is relevant to today's education or science.

If scientists fail to disprove something, then this something will remain.

Perhaps as a possibility.

This would cause a disaster, because if the critique turns out to be valid some day, then everything done inbetween will be wasted effords.

There are always wasted efforts. Your "annotations" is a good example.
But efforts that result in determination of what is or is not valid
are not wasted.

I wrote, that I play the role of a hypothetical professor, who had to
write annotations into the homework of a student.
 This is actually a form of 'critical reading' and has absolutely
nothing to do with  my profession.
 It is a learning method and an itellectual challenge.

 If it were an effective learning method you would have learned already.

 Oh, but I have learned a LOT!

Does that include anything that could be mentioned here?

Now I can almost sing 'On the electrodynamics of moving bodies' (supposed it had inspired a musician to provide notes).

Hardly a useful skill if only almost.
--
Mikko