Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Athel Cornish-Bowden Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Langevin's paradox again Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 09:32:22 +0200 Lines: 70 Message-ID: References: <668fbea3$0$8223$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 6zdVhOwxUkMj9Pl53+fyfAXs4rpTSXwpp0kiGKR+1JiPe/Oj8+ Cancel-Lock: sha1:/GPGCw1yGSAU8yOMwFP686vXDC4= sha256:mRuQMaoa/SPPuOPcd12wGTAjF28L33P6DBjc9VCTnHU= User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Bytes: 3319 On 2024-07-12 06:11:26 +0000, Thomas Heger said: > Am Donnerstag000011, 11.07.2024 um 13:14 schrieb J. J. Lodder: >> Richard Hachel wrote: >> >>> Langevin's paradox. >>> The Langevin paradox is a very serious criticism against the theory of >>> relativity. Unfortunately, the canonization and divinization of Albert >>> Einstein as the new son of God on earth (it was excessive in both >>> substance and form) completely obscured the problem, and we only saw >>> dozens high-level theorists were right against him, and that their >>> grievances were audible. >> >> Here you have Langevin (seated in front of the blackboard) >> with Einstein and Ehrenfest. >> You can see how devastated Einstein is at his theory >> having been destroyed by Langevin, can't you? >> >> >> >> BTW, Einstein is on record as having praised Langevin >> as 'the only Frenchman who understands relativity'. >> Langevin started lecturing on relativity in 1910. > > I had assumed, that Einstein spoke French very well. > > He had several other opportunities to speak French. > > E.g. the works of Poincaré were written in French and seemingly > Einstein knew them. Being able to read and understand French is not the same as beingg able to speak "French very well". I can read and understand written Portuguese, but I certainly can't speak it or understand it when spoken (in Portugal; in Brazil it is less impenetrable). > > He had attended the 'Solveig Conference' which was held in French. > > Einstein had also a number of contacts to people speaking French, like: > > Marie Curie > Langvin > George Lemaitre > > But when did he learn French? > > He had no particular talent for foreign languages, which can be seen at > his very poor perfomance in English, after ten years in Princton!! > > So: where, when and why did he learn French? > > My current 'work hypothesis' goes like this: > > he was actually Swiss citizen from birth and born in the west of > Szwizzerland, were they speak German and French. Nonsense. He was born in Ulm, which is not and never was in Switzerland. > > And possibly his CV was a complete fake and his name wasn't Einstein > and he was possibly not even a Jew (which is why he declined the > presidency of Israel). > > > TH -- Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly in England until 1987.