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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?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> AB was actually meant as:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> distance from A to B,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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).
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes it would be absurd. BTW you are conflating affine spaces with
>>>>> vector spaces here.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Besides of this little formal issue (actually meant was |r_AB| ), 
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> "the distance AB" is not equal to "AB"!
>>>
>>> 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)
>>>
>>> So if there were someone to blame here, it would be the translator.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I wrote annotations from a certain perspective:
>>
>> 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.
....


TH