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Re: Eddington, Einstein and Lorentz shared the vice of plagiarism.

From Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Eddington, Einstein and Lorentz shared the vice of plagiarism.
Date 2023-08-30 07:52 +0200
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Am 23.08.2023 um 09:53 schrieb JanPB:
> On Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 11:19:50 PM UTC-7, Thomas Heger wrote:
>>
>> I have spent a lot of time on analysing
>>
>> 'On the electrodynamics of moving bodies'.
>>
>> And I have found about four-hundred errors in it.
>
> You've found zero errors.
>
> What you call "errors" are just your misunderstandings.
> The solution to your problem is either to learn physics or
> to give up on this entirely and do something else.

I had used a certain method:

I took the text 'On the electrodynamics of moving bodies' as the 
homework of a student (of e.g. physics), which I, as his (hypothetical) 
professor, have to write corrections for.


This setting is certainly not real, but has actually benefits.

The method is mainly a learning tool and meant as kind of 'critical 
reading'.

In my role as 'teatcher', I don't know anything about relativity or what 
the student actually wants to prove.

I have ONLY the text and nothing else than what a physics professor in 
1905 would usually know.



Therefore, what is in the text is in it, what is not written is not in 
it and ignored, if not standard physics and/or math.

This could lead totally off the track, if that is a valid interpretation 
of the text.

It is therefore not my aim, to bring any kind of background knowledge 
into the text, but to analyze the text itself and what it actually says.

In general I took anything written as true representation of the will of 
the author.

In case of any tiny error of whatever kind, I took the text verbatim, 
even if wrong.


But if I find an error, I tried to analyze it and tried to estimate, 
what the author actually (most likely) wanted to express and where and 
how he went wrong.


I also analysed every equation and tried to find the used symbols in the 
verbal discription. So, any variable name needs to be mentioned 
somewhere, where the text explains, what this variable shall express 
(besides of common varibles, like x or t, for instance).

Now Einstein had the odd habbit to reuse variable names for other purposes.

This caused an ambiguity between various uses of e.g. X, A or x'.

I also wanted a consistency of the type of an object and do not want 
that type to be changed (e.g. from scalar to vector or from function to 
value).

I also disliked ambiguity of types of operators. E.g.

a(x,y,z,t) can be interpreted in different ways, e.g.:

as a function 'a' with some variables x,y,z,t in the argument

as a scalar a, which gets multiplied to a fourvector (x,y,z,t)


I also disliked the ambiguity between scalars and vectors in general in 
Einstein's text.

For instance c is a scalar quantity and v a vector. It is therefore 
illegal to perfom something like v+c.

I also looked at formal requirements and precison of the used phrases, 
because I'm actually a (hypothetical) teatcher.

Now any small deviation from good homework writing is marked and 
annotated by me, in the hope, the student would learn something from my 
corrections.

TH

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