Re: energy and mass

From	Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
Newsgroups	sci.physics.relativity, sci.electronics.design
Subject	Re: energy and mass
Date	2026-03-20 10:45 +0100
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Am Donnerstag000019, 19.03.2026 um 14:05 schrieb Bill Sloman:
> On 19/03/2026 9:32 pm, Thomas Heger wrote:
>> Am Dienstag000017, 17.03.2026 um 13:34 schrieb Bill Sloman:
>> ...
>>>>>>>> Smart people are in most cases smart in many areas and not that 
>>>>>>>> often
>>>>>>>> weak in grammar and expression.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> One aspect of intelligence is actually fast learning. But Einstein
>>>>>>>> didn't learn proper English in ten years at Princeton.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Depends on what you want 'proper' to mean.
>>>>>>> Whatever, it was adequate. (but with a heavy accent)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.facebook.com/davesmegastore/videos/einstein-speaking- 
>>>>>> on- emc2/3427205117297399/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not only he was reading his statement from a manuscript, but also 
>>>>>> extremely slow and with heavy German accent.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At that time he had been ten years in Princeton as a professor of 
>>>>>> physics.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So he had enough time, incentive and opportunity to learn proper 
>>>>>> English, but didn't.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Also his desk in Princeton looked always like a mess, which 
>>>>>>>> would be
>>>>>>>> another issue you wouldn't expect from a smart person.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, 
>>>>>>> then, is an
>>>>>>> empty desk a sign?" (probably not Albert Einstein)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   A cluttered desk is actually a sign of low intelligence, because 
>>>>>> an intelligent person is able to clear the mess.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So, my guess was, that Einstein wasn't particularly smart.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Who cares about your guesses?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do.
>>>>>
>>>>> But you do seem to get a lot of stuff wrong. Maybe you should put 
>>>>> some effort into finding out actual facts, rather than guessing
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> But that doesn't matter, of course, because he wasn't famous for
>>>>>>>>>> language.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> He was famous for what he wrote and communicated, but you don't 
>>>>>>>>> seem to
>>>>>>>>> be able to understand why.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have actually have read one article carefully and found that it
>>>>>>>> contains way too many errors (roughly 390!).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So, you are in fact correct and I actually don't understand, why 
>>>>>>>> he is
>>>>>>>> still famous for this particular article.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Guess you never will,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My guess was actually, that Einstein was a 'disinformation agent' 
>>>>>> and his work was praised, because it is full of errors.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This was necessary for 'brainwashing' of students of physics.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you wanted a better grasp of physics, you would need to get your 
>>>>> brain washed. There may not be enough of it let you grasp Einstein- 
>>>>> level physics, but sweeping out the rubbish that you post here 
>>>>> might make room for something better.
>>>>
>>>> It wasn't about me, because I'm not a physicist and have never 
>>>> studied physics.
>>>
>>> That is very obvious.
>>>
>>>> My problem was:
>>>> if that particular text is FULL of errors and terrible physics at 
>>>> best, then why got it so popular???
>>>
>>> If you have never studied physics, how can you be confident that the 
>>> physics was terrible?
>>>
>>>> The number of errors in it is just enormous (roughly 12 per page on 
>>>> average).
>>>>
>>>> This deserves an explanation, because it isn't easy to make THAT 
>>>> many errors in the first place.
>>>
>>> Of course, if you can't count error reliably, it might indicate that 
>>> your defective language skills have lead you to reject a large number 
>>> of acceptable variations in sentence structure that somebody with a 
>>> better grasp of language variation would not have marked as errors.
>>
>> Sure, English is a second language for me, because my native language 
>> is German.
> 
> But German has regional variants, and - like all languages - has evolved 
> over time.
Yes, that actually true.

And English and Dutch are also regarded as German dialects.


>> But, as a matter of fact, I made a German version, too, where I have 
>> written comment in German into the German version of the text.
>>
>> And I speak German far better than English, because English is 
>> actually a second language for me.
> 
> It shows. Not often, but often enough.

Sorry for mistakes. But foreign languages are among my weaknesses.

It took me a very long time to speak good English.

>>>> But second questions would be: who made that piece of garbage 
>>>> popular and why?
>>>
>>> The obvious answer is that it wasn't garbage, and it's your judgment 
>>> that was defective, rather than the paper.
>>
>> Well, possibly.
> 
> Granting the number of people who approve of the paper, it's closer to 
> probable than possible.
> 
>> But I spent much longer on that paper than Einstein did for his entire 
>> university education.
> 
> Suggesting that your judgement isn't all that good.
> 
>> I have also written several entirely new versions, from which the 
>> English version wasn't the best I could do.
>>
>> But I will eventually publish the recent German version, too, but I'm 
>> insecure when I should do that.
> 
> Never might be a good choice.
> 
>> So, now I'm kind of expert on that article of Einstein.
> 
> You are obsessed with it, which isn't quite the same thing.

No. I follow a certain principle, which I regard as necessary for proper 
learning.

It is actually better to become a specialist in a very narrow realm than 
to have some knowledge about lots of things.

Usually I prefer the second option, but I had chosen to follow the other 
principle of better knowledge about a small topic in the case of 
Einstein's article.

The reason:

I'm only a single person and can only convince somebody, if my own 
arguments are absolutely flawless.

Therefore I have rewritten my annotations over and over again. I have 
taken every effort to eliminate own errors of any kind.

That's why you will hardly find any.

But since there is a lot to chose from, it doesn't matter that much, if 
I have made a few errors, despite my effort to sieve them out.
...


TH

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