Re: the notion of counter-intuitiveness in relativistic physics

gharnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 9:02:41 +0000, Richard Hachel wrote:

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Le 09/08/2024 à 22:07, film.art@gmail.com (JanPB) a écrit :

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Notice I didn't say "the problem is you" because it's not a problem
to have no talent for something in particular. The only time it

becomes

an emotional problem is when a person somehow falls into the trap of
convincing oneself that it's absolutely essential to "work with" the
domain one cannot possibly succeed in..
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--
Jan

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"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb
a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." -- Albert
Einstein

 You have a verifiable source for that of course?
 

It's not a question of science, I've never stopped repeating it.
It's like in many other areas a question of human power relations.
"We don't want this man to rule over us".
Always, always, always, the same phenomenon is reproduced, and on all
human knowledge (sociology, criminology, journalism, medicine, theology,
philosophy, politics, scientific theory).

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At first, Einstein was ignored, and it took quite a while for the PTB to
come around.

  Sorry, but that is complete nonsense.
Einstein 1905 (relativity) had an immediate impact
with those who mattered. (Planck, Lorentz, Abraham, Poincaré, etc.)
They saw that a fundamental breakthrough had been achieved,