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Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
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.”
719 / 2004-12-14 - Antje VOLLMER, MdB, c/o Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin.
CD-ROM 1.2 with printout of 93 sample pages, 2nd Progress Report.
Extract:
“Please find everything else, dear Ms. Vollmer, enclosed. We are addressing you today not in your capacity as
holder of the high office of Vice President of the German “Bundestag” [Parliament], but as a member of the
Bundestag, and in trust in the welcoming words found on your home page: “I very much look forward to your
suggestions, comments, and letters.” We also respectfully refer you to your contribution in the FAZ (22.8.04) on
the topic of spelling, due to the principles very decisively defended therein: no reform without intensive debate;
democracy means being correctable.
With trust in the credibility of your standpoint and in the hope that you will not become typically stiff with
horror when you hear criticism of the holiest theory of physics, we submit to you the results of our work. 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 political 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.”
720 / 2004-12-15 - Bundespräsident a.D. Roman HERZOG. München.
CD-ROM 1.2 with printout of 93 sample pages,2nd Progress Report.
Extract:
“That the system of denial, suppression and defamation of every bit of criticism of the theory has functioned so
perfectly for decades is also due to the successful bringing-into-line of the press. Whereas in totalitarian countries
everyone knows about the bringing-into-line of the press and doesn’t really expect anything else, the conformity of
the press in Germany, in terms of theoretical physics, is much more difficult to uncover, because it is only known to
those few people who organize it. The general public and naturally the press itself, by contrast, nurse a noble image
that extols our press as critical and investigative, trusting in its control function as the fourth power in the state.
The balance sheet of theoretical physics since 1922 is dreadfully successful: a basic right put out of force; a
group of persons slandered and excluded from public life; the public twice deceived, namely as to the true status of
a theory and as to the cause of the deathly stillness in the specialist field; the general and the trade press brought into
line to suppress criticism in the field of theoretical physics.
Sometime or other the contrast has to be noticed. In our society the secondary and primary sex characteristics of
important and less-important personalities can be publicly scrutinized. A certain theory of physics, by contrast,
must not be publicly criticized.
(...)
Please find everything else, dear Ex-President, enclosed. We have decided to approach the lawyer and former
bearer of the highest office in our democracy, who has also acquired his great reputation for his journalistic
effectiveness in the general interest - in which connection particularly your article “Vertrauen in Zeiten der Lüge”
[Trust During the Era of the Lie] (DIE WELT, 26.11.02) with the conclusion “Overall concept and election
campaign cards on the table, these would be decisive steps towards coping with the crisis of confidence” impressed
us - to draw your attention to the problems uncovered in our documentation in the assumption 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, also in the field of theoretical physics. We respectfully request that you
check the soundness and quality of our documentation and, in the event of a positive result of this examination, that
you help stimulate, within the context of your political 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.
We need not explain to you 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 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
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