1. The Need of New Approaches - Kritische Stimmen zur ...

Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
the editorial office of the FAZ, together with the other multi-regional papers of the Federal Republic of Germany,
have been sent all documents since December 2001, as our postal dispatch list shows - we allow ourselves to send
you the documents today with the request that you examine these to determine whether this project too might not be
a topic for the features section, in view of the widely believed fundamental significance of the theory for our view of
the world and as a showpiece of our all-round education.
Since, from your literature report at least, you already refer to a “both historical and current front of rejection“
and in this context distinguish between three groups (malevolent; organized rebellion attempts; serious scientists),
we are of course very eager to learn in which of the three groups our research project and the 1300 or so dead and
living critics documented therein are placed. In this connection we assume that you will be able to recognize
immediately all of the Nobel-Prize winners amongst the critics. At any rate, we are certain that you will not become
typically stiff with horror in response to the existence of criticism of the holiest theory of physics. In particular we
would be interested to learn whether anyone in the features section of the FAZ might at some time or other be
interested in scientific freedom, since in all other fields freedom is - fortunately - cherished.”
809 / 2005-03-29 - Prof. Wolfgang HECKL, General Director of Deutsches Museum. München.
CD-ROM 1.2 with printout of 93 sample pages, 2nd Progress Report.
Extract:
“Please find everything else, dear Professor Heckl, enclosed. Since, as an award-winner of the “Descartes Prize
for Science Communication”, you are regarded as a “communications genius” (FAZ, 7.9.04) who pleads for better
acceptance of the natural sciences, and who will be organizing that “EuroScience Open Forum” 2006 in Munich,
we allow ourselves to send you, too, our work results.
With this we are including you in our thought experiment, which researches into the effects of critical ideas in
the society of the Federal Republic of Germany and seeks to determine how much longer the criticism of the special
theory of relativity may be sweepingly slandered and suppressed, and thereby scientific freedom in the field of
theoretical physics - which supposedly stands under the protection of the German constitution - may remain done
away with. As a civil servant you have also taken an oath on the federal or state constitution and will certainly wish
to ensure the implementation of basic rights. We therefore need not explain to you the peculiarity of the continuing
suppression of every bit of criticism of a certain physical theory for almost a hundred years now, or the significance
of this swindle of the public as regards the true status of the theory and the supposed revolutionary findings derived
from its results, or of the devastating consequences for the state of public opinion. Should the long-continuing
suppression of scientific freedom be no serious problem, then what could be?”
810 / 2005-03-29 - Prof. Johanna HEY c/o Stiftungsprofessur f. Unternehmensrecht, Universität. Düsseldorf.
CD-ROM 1.2 with printout of 93 sample pages, 2nd Progress Report.
Extract:
“Please find everything else, dear Professor Hey, enclosed. Since, as a member of the board of directors of the
German Association of Higher-Educational Establishments, you make - in your contribution “Freiheit von Forschung
und Lehre macht Eliten” [Freedom of Research and Teaching Makes the Elite] (FAZ, 28.9.04) - scientific freedom
of research one of your main concerns, even stating that the attractiveness of the university “... stands or falls with
the freedom of research and teaching that it guarantees. This freedom ... is the motivation for a career as a scientist”,
we allow ourselves to send you, too, our work results.
With this we are including you in our thought experiment, which researches into the effects of critical ideas in
the society of the Federal Republic of Germany and seeks to determine how much longer the criticism of the special
theory of relativity may be sweepingly slandered and suppressed, and thereby scientific freedom in the field of
theoretical physics - which supposedly stands under the protection of the German constitution - may remain done
away with. As a civil servant you have also taken an oath on the federal or state constitution and will certainly wish
to ensure the implementation of basic rights. We therefore need not explain to you the peculiarity of the continuing
suppression of every bit of criticism of a certain physical theory for almost a hundred years now, or the significance
of this swindle of the public as regards the true status of the theory and the supposed revolutionary findings derived
from its results, or of the devastating consequences for the state of public opinion. Should the long-continuing
suppression of scientific freedom be no serious problem, then what could be?”
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811 / 2005-03-29 - Florian ILLIES c/o Zeitschrift “Monopol“, Publisher. Juno Verlag. Berlin.
CD-ROM 1.2 with printout of 93 sample pages, 2nd Progress Report.
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