Re: [SR and synchronization] Cognitive Dissonances and Mental Blockage

Le 28/08/2024 à 08:10, Thomas Heger a écrit :

Am Dienstag000027, 27.08.2024 um 10:48 schrieb Python:
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What you say is very interesting.
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Well, thanks.
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But this isn't such a nice story at all.
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In a way this problem with naming coordinate systems was just the 'tip of the iceberg'.
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But the reuse of symbols or -for instance- to define something one way, but not sticking to this definition, are also observable.
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Especially annoying were the reuse of the letter A and the symbol x'.
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There were actually eight different uses for the tall latin 'A' in this paper.
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But how could any reader keep track of the intended meaning in a certain context?

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You certainly couldn't. But you are far below average.

 Well, possibly, possibly not.
 But this wasn't the question, because I spent a lot of time and can assure you, that I have found out, what was written in this paper.

I can assure you that you haven't.

But usually a scientific text should be comprehendable at least for specialists in that particular field.
 And such readers do not have infinite time to spent on a single paper.
 Therefore any scientific author is requested to write in a comprehensive way, where readers can possibly understand, what the author wants to say.

Up to now there are no such issues with the article we are talking
about. Scientists understood it in 1905 and since then. It is also
read by numerous students and amateur since then without readibility
issues.

The reader is in no way responsible for the content of a text and also not per se a friend of the author.
 Therefore the reader cannot read the mind of the author, hence can only take, what the author has actually written.
 If this is ambigous or hard to interpret, the paper flies into the dustbin and end of the story.

There is NOTHING ambiguous in Einstein's paper.