Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: The Earth is at the Center of the Universe Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:31:18 -0700 Organization: The Starmaker Organization Lines: 96 Message-ID: <635A33C6.2F96@ix.netcom.com> References: <634C4FC8.854@ix.netcom.com> <634DC65D.446F@ix.netcom.com> <6351A14B.2886@ix.netcom.com> <635374C9.3D2D@ix.netcom.com> <63540FA5.51EB@ix.netcom.com> <63542E86.47F5@ix.netcom.com> <63582021.E08@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="fcd99a193e4855bfd60b193b4cc83d82"; logging-data="2862479"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/jvjDwZGrXU49YJHI7GgesmkFSDxNDCB8=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:dikai4AH/smBynevR37Zu6zhknA= X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 221026-12, 10/26/2022), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:594253 Thomas Heger wrote: > > Am 25.10.2022 um 19:42 schrieb The Starmaker: > ... > >>> As a son of a citizen of the Kingdom of Württemberg, Albert Einstein, > >>> born in Ulm in 1879, was a citizen of the German Empire by birth. > >>> > >> History is written by the victors and you are not. > >> > >> So, you are requested to accept as actual facts, about what some victors > >> had decided you have to believe. > >> > >> But besides of such 'history' (which we can safely assume to be at least > >> partically faked), there is also an actual history, which is not written > >> by victors, but by time itself. > >> > >> Now from fake does not follow a truth, if we invert the fake. Instead of > >> this, we know nothing. > >> > >> In case of Einstein, I had doubts about his identity, because his cv > >> made no sense to me. > >> > >> I would actually distrust a story, were a teenager left his family to go > >> to school far away alone and in a different country, after giving up his > >> intial citizenship. > >> > >> This is possible, but I would guess, that it is also unlikely. > >> > >> Teenagers simply don't do that. > >> > >> The other issue was, that the relocation of the Einsteins from Germany > >> to Pavia, Italy would have required language skills, for which no > >> obvious source can befound. > >> > >> TH > > > > > > It does not require "language skills" to relocate.. > > Sure. > > But the Einstein's went to Italy to run a company. > > In this case some skills in Italian were certainly necessary. > > Also schools were language dependent. > > As teenagers had to go to school already in the early 20th century, > young Albert needed some skills in Italian, if he wanted to stay in > Pavia with his family. > > That was a time, when 'integration classes' for migrants were not yet > known and children simply had to speak the language of the country, > otherwise they had to learn it. > > But Einstein was not that good in learning foreign languages, as can be > seen in his very poor performance in English after a decade at Princton. > > > > > People from all walks of life are relocating who don't speak the > > language of the country > > they are entering everyday....(even scientists) (they drive UBER) > > > > dats why Jewish people live in Jewish neighborhoods and > > dats why Russian people live in Russian neighborhoods and > > dats why Spanish people live in Spanish neighborhoods and > > dats why Chinks people live in Chinks neighborhoods and > > dats why gueineas people live in wops neighborhoods and > > But not so in Italy, because what you describe is the USA. > > Italians spoke mainly Italian, while some speak German, but not in Pavia. > > Foreign languages were tought only to a relatively small elite, which > could afford to attend better schools than the common peasants. > > > does your dog speak your language? What's on top of a building? Woof! > > I have no dog. But dogs cannot speak like humans, while they can > actually understand human language quite well. > > Whether they communicate among each other in regional languages, I > cannot say. But I would guess, they don't. > > TH > > The official language of Switzerland is Italian. -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.