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Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
717 / 2004-12-12 - Prof. Richard SCHRÖDER, HU Berlin, Theologische Fakultät. Berlin.
CD-ROM 1.2 with printout of 93 sample pages, 2nd Progress Report.
Extract:
“Please find everything else, dear Professor Schröder, enclosed. As a citizen of the former GDR [“East
Germany”] you have personally experienced the dissident status and you have expressed yourself in a well
regarded essay, “Was Forschung darf” [What Research May Do], on the basic issues of science. Both of these
points have moved us to send you, too, our work results. We need not explain to the theologian and philosopher
what consequences it can have when in a branch of the natural sciences, for a period of eight decades, every bit of
criticism is suppressed, the very existence of significant criticism is denied, the critics are slandered and socially
excluded, and the public is deceived as to the true status of a supposedly fundamental and best-verified theory.
What is at stake is no more and no less than the basic right of scientific freedom in the field of research and
teaching, and the false maintenance of the facade of a theory, because since 1922 academic physics has “pokered”
too high and this loss cannot be publicly admitted without a catastrophic loss of face. Our documentation uncovers
the trap of a supposedly “gigantic” success that wasn’t a success at all, and our project demands free public
discussion of the conditions existing in the academic field of theoretical physics and of the true status of the special
theory of relativity.
We assume that you will not become typically stiff with horror when you hear criticism of the holiest theory of
physics, but will instead support the demand for free public discussion, even in the field of theoretical physics. We
respectfully request that you check the problems brought to light in our documentation and, in the event of a
positive result of this examination, that you help stimulate, within the context of your scientific and journalistic
work, free public discussion of the conditions existing in the field of theoretical physics. For purposes of your
journalistic work you can make use of the texts sent to you by us at your discretion.
As you can see from the accompanying second progress report, which contains our postal dispatch list for the
first three years, we have informed, amongst others, 71 party committees in the Federal Republic of Germany about
the results of our documentation and have requested that they examine this to determine any need for action. We
place our hopes on the possibility that at the political level the significance of the organized breach of law in
theoretical physics - which is, after all, no less than the breach of a basic right - will be recognized and that efforts
will be made to reinstate the validity of the German constitution in this branch of the natural sciences.
As a member of the academic teaching staff of the HU, we would like to inform you that the university libraries
of the three scientific universities in Berlin (FU, TU, and HU) have each received 2 copies of our documentation
(text version 1.1 of 2002 and text version 1.2 of 2004). Until the present day all 6 copies are stewing noncatalogued
in the university libraries of Berlin, or have perhaps already been disposed of. Whereas the scientific
libraries in other regions of the Federal Republic of Germany have mostly very correctly catalogued them, our
documentation remains closed to the Berlin university public. Can one possibly still believe here in a matter of
coincidence, or is it rather a case of censorship by particularly upright physicists in the libraries, who do not wish to
see Berlin soiled with the ugly criticism of the holiest theory of physics? In your position, as a member of the
teaching staff, all it might take to get things going is a mere enquiry on your part.”
718 / 2004-12-14 - Prof. Gesine SCHWAN c/o Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt / Oder.
CD-ROM 1.2 with printout of 93 sample pages, 2. progress report.
Extract:
“Please find everything else, dear Professor Schwan, enclosed. In your great contribution “Das zerstörte Tabu”
[The Destroyed Taboo] (SZ, 4./6.1.03) you have addressed a topic that we have read with the greatest of interest,
because almost no one dares to argue and to criticize so fundamentally; the “absolute obligation to the truth”. You
call for a “religious, absolutely obligatory and comprehensive concept of truth”. You lament the instrumentalization
and thereby the accompanying partialization of science as a sign of its bondage. You lament “the lack ... of an
embracing obligation to the truth”. You see a “scientific development ... which subjects itself to particular
interests”. These words are directed at the dependence and subjugation of science to the interests of commerce.
The “absolute obligation to the truth” addressed by you is the subject matter of our project, or put more precisely,
the clear absence of the obligation to the truth in the field of theoretical physics and instead the presence of the
suppression of the truth, denial and defamation of the criticism. This has moved us to send you, too, our work
results.
We need not explain to the political scientist what consequences it can have when in a branch of the natural
sciences every bit of criticism is suppressed for more than eight decades, the very existence of significant criticism
is denied, the critics are slandered and socially excluded and the public is deceived as to the true status of a
supposed fundamental and best-verified theory. What is at stake is no more and no less than the basic right of
scientific freedom in the field of research and teaching, and the false maintenance of the facade of a theory, because
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