{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 225/1923-05-06/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us try to understand the significance of this point, which must therefore lie in the middle man, in the chest man. Imagine you have a scale here. Imagine a load here, and weights on the other side; now you create a balance. I must not give an excess weight here, otherwise it will go down; I must not give an excess weight there either, otherwise it will go down; I must not take anything away either, otherwise the whole thing will move. But look, here is a point, a neutral point. You could add as much as you wanted to this point, nothing would change in the balance of the scales. You could also take the scales there, and if you avoid creating an excess weight somewhere by any swing or something like that, you can move the scales all around, the balance remains the same. You can carry out the weighing correctly during the movement. This is a point that is not at all concerned with the whole system of the scales, an equilibrium point. You can do whatever you want with it, and nothing will change for the rest of the balance. For example, someone has a load on one side and weights on the other. Now he realizes: the balance beam is made of iron, I don't like that, I'll make it out of gold. Now all he has to do is enlarge the center point a little, because actually the point of rest is a mathematical point, but it will be possible to enlarge it a little. You can bring gold into this point of rest quite well: the balance will not be changed. If you put the gold somewhere else – outside the center – then the balance will change immediately. But if someone wants to create a hollow space there and put flesh in it, they can do that too, it won't change the balance. Another person puts butter in there: the butter melts in the sun, the balance of the scales does not change. In short, there is a point here, quite independent of the whole system of the scales, where you can do whatever you want.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. 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Sie könnten auch die Waage da nehmen, und wenn Sie vermeiden, daß irgendwo ein Übergewicht entsteht durch irgendeinen Schwung oder so etwas, so können Sie die Waage überall herumbewegen, das Gleichgewicht bleibt dasselbe. Sie können während der Bewegung richtig das Wägen ausführen. Das ist ein Punkt, der überhaupt das ganze System der Waage nichts angeht, ein Gleichgewichtspunkt. An dem können Sie ausführen, was Sie wollen, so ändert sich für die übrigen Verhältnisse der Waage gar nichts. Da hat zum Beispiel einer hier eine Last darauf, auf der anderen Seite Gewichte. Jetzt fällt ihm ein: Der Waagebalken ist von Eisen, das gefällt mir nicht, ich mache ihn aus Gold. - Nun braucht er nur den Mittelpunkt etwas zu vergrößern, denn eigentlich ist der Ruhepunkt ein mathematischer Punkt, aber man wird ihn etwas vergrößern können. Man kann ganz gut Gold hier hereinbringen in den Ruhepunkt: Das Gleichgewicht wird nicht geändert. Wenn Sie das Gold hier irgendwo hinbringen - außerhalb des Mittelpunktes -, dann ändert sich gleich das Gleichgewicht. Aber wenn einer da einen hohlen Raum erzeugen und Fleisch hineinbringen will, so kann er das auch, es ändert sich das Gleichgewicht dadurch nicht. Ein anderer bringt Butter hinein: Die Butter schmilzt in der Sonne, das Gleichgewicht der Waage ändert sich nicht. 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