{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 319/1923-11-16/p058","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Dr. Steiner: Yes, but relativity is also relative. Someone once wanted to make Einstein's theory of relativity plausible to his audience by taking a matchbox and a match. And he said: I can now pass the match past the box, which I am holding still; but I can also hold the match still and pass the box past it: the same effect. It's relative. — I would have liked to shout at the gentleman: Why don't you nail the box to the wall, then it requires a little more. Then we enter into the relativity of relativity. And when we look at the human body in motion, we come to the conclusion that motion is not determined by coordinate systems or reference systems, but also by fatigue and organic changes, which already takes me a step from the relative to the absolute. I would like to say: relativity is again relative and asymptotically approaches absoluteness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Sixth Lecture","site_heading":"The Three-System Human Organism and Therapeutic Remedies","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Die Sache ist relativ. — Ich hätte dem Herrn gerne zurufen mögen: Nageln sie die Schachtel doch einmal an, dann erfordert das schon etwas mehr. Dann kommen wir in die Relativität der Relativität hinein. Und wenn wir den menschlichen Körper betrachten in seiner Bewegung, so kommen wir dazu, daß die Bewegung nicht konstatiert wird durch Koordinatensysteme, durch Bezugssysteme, sondern auch durch Ermüdung und organische Veränderungen, wodurch ich schon einen Schritt mache vom Relativen zum Absoluten. Ich möchte sagen: die Relativität ist wieder relativ und nähert sich asymptotisch der Absolutheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":150,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/319/1923-11-16/p058"}],"english":["GA 319/1923-11-16/p058"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":150,"en_words":155,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":11460,"original_word_count":10832,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Anthroposophical Medical Theory and Human Knowledge","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA319/English/SOL2024/19231116m01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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