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

Am Donnerstag000022, 22.08.2024 um 12:58 schrieb Python:
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It is. It is explained in my initial post : What is (AB)/c to you?

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AB was actually meant as:
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distance from A to B,
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even if A and B are in fact position vectors, hence AB would usually be the scalar product of A and B (what is absurd).

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Yes it would be absurd. BTW you are conflating affine spaces with
vector spaces here.
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Besides of this little formal issue (actually meant was |r_AB| ),

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Well, Thomas, this is utterly ridiculous. Any reader understands what
AB as it appears in 2AB/(t'_A - t_A) is the distance AB. From high
school to Ph. D.

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"the distance AB" is not equal to "AB"!

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The distance between A and B can be denoted in a lot of ways. The point
is to ensure that there is no ambiguity given the context. As a matter
of fact Einstein in the ORIGINAL paper used an overbar on top of
AB (https://myweb.rz.uni-augsburg.de/~eckern/adp/history/einstein-papers/1905_17_891-921.pdf)
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So if there were someone to blame here, it would be the translator.
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I wrote annotations from a certain perspective:
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I treated the text in question as homework of a student and myself as hypothetical professor, who had to write corrections for that paper.

 You cannot pretend to be a professor, even hypothetical, when dealing
with subject you are both ignorant of and too stupid to understand.

I have already written, that this is a certain perspective of writing.
I could - for instance - write a novel from the perspective of JFK, after being shot.
You could complain, this is not possible.
Sure, most likely this isn't.
BUT: it's the author, who choses the writing perspective and not the reader.
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TH