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Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
Open Letter Sent to Federal Minister Schavan
2701 / 2006-09-21
G. O. Mueller thanked the minister for the answer to the “Open Letter” of 28. October 2005 sent by Prof.
Richter to Ms. Lopez, but regretted that the answer did not address the problems put forward.
Extract:
“We respectfully request the honour of an answer to our work results which, since December 2001, we have
continuously sent to more and more representatives of the public in Germany and, now too, in other countries. The
questions of our “Open Letter” of 28.10.05 can be summarized in a few lines and permit clear answers to be given:
1. Is there a tradition of criticism of the theory that has lasted 95 years?
Yes or no?
2. Has this criticism of the theory been suppressed and slandered for 80 years?
Yes or no?
3. Has this criticism of the theory been argumentatively dispelled in scientific discussions?
Yes or no?
4. Is there - as is usually the custom in science - professional and public discussion of minority viewpoints in
the scientific discussion of theoretical physics on the special theory of relativity?
Yes or no?
5. Have those in office in the field of theoretical physics, with the discrimination and the boycott of critical
minority viewpoints by way of exclusion from the scientific discussion and thereby the exclusion of the critics from
the basic rights, broken their oaths of office taken on the Constitution in a vast number of cases?
Yes or no?
6. Have the scientific editorials of the German daily press, the magazines and the electronic mass media been
successfully brought into line for purposes of suppression of the criticism of the theory?
Yes or no?
7. Is there, in all areas of our society (with a single exception: the Internet) - in other words, in the universities,
the mass media, the schools, the general and professional magazines and journals, and the publishing programs - a
deathly stillness with respect to this particular theory brought about an illegal censorship?
Yes or no?
8. Is a commitment to the theory already demanded in the schools, even if the expression of commitment is
hypocritical, enforced by the teachers of the subject by means of the marking system, and implemented because
anyone who criticises is declared to be stupid?
Yes or no?
9. Are doubts expressed by the pupils immediately met with a good dressing-down and is thereby moral
cowardice and opportunism cultivated in the pupils (and, by the way, in the teaching colleagues of the other
subjects)?
Yes or no?
10. Has the public been deceived by the decades-long concealment of the existence of a tradition of criticism?
Yes or no?
We answer questions 3 and 4 with “no”, all other questions with “yes”. We believe that, with a little effort, the
proof in favour of our answers can be given with great certainty, because our documentation provides the most
important material.”
The text of the “Open Letter” has been published in the Internet:
http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/060921gom_schavan.pdf
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