It isn't simply about achieving historical relevancy or glory it's also about power and control. If you can convince the descendants of a conquered and enslaved people that they are really from somewhere else that solves a lot of problems for you. It allows you to claim legal ownership of lands and resources. It allows you to be united and keep everyone else divided.
If your goal is to increase the numbers of your race(aka nation, aka family), and dominate the world, as Ben Franklin suggested, then colonizing everything and remaking history is the way to do it. Creating a theory that puts colored people right above monkey-man and the white man right above him seems natural. Using typification artists to rework old paintings to appear lighter would be a good idea. Museums would probably stash 90% of the artifacts they find in the basement and only display reworked replicas. Making Jesus a white man would be essential.
You mean like with the 'American' example you keep drawing? Nobody with a brain considers us to be the original people of this land and the obnoxious "real" American rhetoric propagated by white nationalists is actually in reference to the sovereign country that was established as the United States. I don't consider myself an American beyond citizenship, I'm a European. Lo and Behold, my genome also clusters precisely with the contemporary populations of Northern Europe.
The philosophy and methodologies behind studying and interpreting these elements and sequences is where the theory and idea comes in.
But let me ask you a hypothetical. If you did a dna test on someone and determined they were supposed to be white but then someone shows you a picture of them being black would dismiss the dna test or the picture?
Except for the 99% chance that wouldn't happen? Skin color is a polygenic trait with many genetic loci involved in its expression but we more or less have down the primary genes and their respective variations that account for it.
You want some "theory" history, bruv? The black men from Deutschland may enjoy this
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So like, quantum mechanics is arguably the most radical ever put forth and along with General Relativity constitutes one of the two pillars that modern (i.e. present day) physics is built off. It's estimated that up to 25% of the GDP of first world countries is based on the technological applications born out of it: everything from semiconductors, modern computers, smart phones to lasers, magnetic resonance imaging, atomic clocks and GPS.
Quantum theory origin begins with Max Planck (1858-1947), who was the de facto curator of scientific research in Germany throughout the first half of the 20th century during a time in which it unequivocally led the world on the cutting edge. His life and philosophy outside of his scientific work is of great interest on its own, particularly because of the personal tragedy it was marked by and numerous historical intersections: from direct confrontations with Adolf Hitler and secretly keeping Jewish scientists employed at the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (later renamed Max Planck Society in 1948), to losing one son during the battle of Verdun in World War I and losing another for his involvement in the 1944 Assassination plot on Hitler during World War II.
Circling back to 1900: While working on a solution for discrepancies with black body radiation that physics of the time couldn't account for Planck found that to match experimental data, the energy of a vibrating molecule could only take on certain values and that it would have to be proportional to the frequency of vibration, which led him to postulate that light energy could only be emitted and absorbed in discrete packets he dubbed "quanta". He was later the lone recepient awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in physics as the founder of quantum theory.
He conceived of a fundamental physical constant of proportionality - known as Planck's constant denoted h - as the 'quantum of action' with a value of 6.626 x 10^-34 J-s (Joules/second) and developed the equation E = hf (also written E = hv) to measure the energy output of this discrete quanta which in a stroke of effortless genius five years later Albert Einstein identified as photons, literal particles of light - an absolutely preposterous idea at the time - and the force carrier of electromagnetism, one of the four fundamental interactions of nature alongside gravity, strong nuclear and weak nuclear in using it to explain the photoelectric effect. So thus given the frequency, Planck allowed us to measure the energy (in joules) of single photons across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. That's a start, this post is long.
It was in 1905 that Einstein would also formulate and introduce special relativity, mass-energy equivalence (E=mc2) and proved beyond doubt the existence of atoms via Brownian Motion, the latter of which was a notion on the nature of matter that had been hypothesized since the time of Leucippus and Democritus in Ancient Greece circa fifth century BC.
Any single one of the aforementioned achievements would've made him an ATG, none of them are even regarded as his greatest work. That would be General Relativity 10 years later, completely flipping human understanding of space and time on its head - a malleable four-dimensional continuum warped in the presence of mass/energy - and in the process opening the doors to modern astrophysics and cosmology.
