{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 1/l16/p092","lang":"en","edition":"MP1988","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Modern physics actually has no concept at all for “light.” It knows only specific lights, colors, that in particular mixtures evoke the impression “white.” But even this “white” cannot be identified with light in itself. “White” is actually also nothing other than a *mixed colour*. Modern physics does not know “light” in the Goethean sense, any more than it knows “darkness.” Thus Goethe's colour theory moves in a realm that makes no contact at all with what the physicists determine conceptually. Physics simply does not *know* any of the basic concepts of the Goethean colour theory. Therefore, from its standpoint, it cannot judge this theory at all. Goethe, in fact, begins where physics ends.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"16. Goethe as Thinker and Investigator","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":114,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/1/l16/p092","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["MP1988"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/1/l16/p092"},{"lang":"en","edition":"MP1988","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/1/l16/p092","paragraph_aligned":true}],"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 1/l16/p092","passage_number":92,"text":"Für «Licht» hat die moderne Physik eigentlich gar keinen Begriff. Sie kennt nur spezifizierte Lichter, Farben, die in bestimmten Mischungen den Eindruck: Weiß hervorrufen. Aber auch dieses «Weiß» darf nicht mit dem Lichte an sich identifiziert werden. Weiß ist eigentlich auch nichts weiter als eine *Mischfarbe.* Das «Licht» im Goetheschen Sinne kennt die moderne Physik nicht; ebensowenig die «Finsternis». Die Farbenlehre Goethes bewegt sich somit in einem Gebiete, welches die Begriffsbestimmungen der Physiker gar nicht berührt. Die Physik *kennt* einfach alle die Grundbegriffe der Goetheschen Farbenlehre nicht. Sie kann somit von ihrem Standpunkte aus diese Theorie gar nicht beurteilen. Goethe beginnt eben da, wo die Physik aufhört..","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":107,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/1/l16/p092"}],"english":["GA 1/l16/p092"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":107,"en_words":114,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.14,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":12330,"original_word_count":10769,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 1/l16/p092"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}