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Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
E-mail Sent to Jörn Wunderlich,
Member of the German Bundestag
3218 / 2007-05-07
The member of the German Bundestag Jörn Wunderlich had confirmed receipt of the “Open Letter” of 28.10.05
from G. O. Mueller, but held himself not to be sufficiently competent to give a serious answer, and said he would
pass on the material to the appropriate politicians within the parliamentary faction.
Ms. Lopez reports in the e-mail on the reactions to the “Open Letter” of 28.10.05 written by G. O. Mueller and
to his new “Open Letter” addressed to the 200 professors in Berlin and Dresden and enquires about the status of the
examination by the appropriate colleagues in Wunderlich’s parliamentary faction.
The text of the e-mail is published in the Internet:
http://www.jocelyne-lopez.de/blog/2007/11/mai-2007-jocelyne-lopez-schreibt-an- jornwunderlich-und-katjakipping-bundestagsabgeordnete-beide-fraktion-die-linke/
E-Mail Sent to Prof. Dr. Jürgen Richter, BMBF
3219 / 2007-05-07
At the order of Federal Minister Schavan, Prof. Richter had informed Ms. Lopez, with his e-mail of 14.8.06,
that the “results of the scientific research are to be discussed amongst the scientific experts themselves”.
Ms. Lopez replies that the federal minister had so far not responded to the request that the experts, with whom
these problems were to be discussed, be named.
For this reason Ms. Lopez asked Prof. Richter for an answer to the question as to how the 1905 assumption
made by Albert Einstein, that the speed of a beam of light relative to all arbitrarily moving observers could always
be the same, had been experimentally verified. She referred to the apparent contradiction in the presentations,
according to which this constant speed has been confirmed many times, though not a single experiment has been
identified in this connection.
Ms. Lopez requested the proof of experiments with various moving observers. One such proof already indicated
to her was the Michelson-Morley experiment, though this is not appropriate since it does not involve various
moving observers.
The text of the e-mail is published in the Internet:
http://www.jocelyne-lopez.de/blog/2007/11/mai-2007-jocelyne-lopez-schreibt-an-prof-dr- jurgen-richter-undfrau-dr-annette-schavan-bundestministerium-fur-bildung-und-forschung/
In response, Prof. Richter replied to Ms. Lopez in an e-mail of 9.5.07:
“Evaluation of the results of scientific research is incumbent on the experts and on corresponding scientific
institutions. In the case of the theory of relativity, these would be, for example, the Max Planck Institute for
Gravitational Physics / the Einstein Institute in Potsdam-Golm.”
The text of this e-mail is published in the Internet:
http://www.jocelyne-lopez.de/blog/2007/11/mai-2007-antwort-von-prof-jurgen-richter-bundesministeriumfur-bildung-und-forschung-an-jocelyne-lopez/
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