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

2012
Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
The Masses of Those Affected by the Relativity Catastrophe
To assess the extent of the relativity catastrophe and to grasp its scale, in comparison to the political catastrophes
of the 20th century, it is necessary that one has an idea of the numbers of those involved. This would long since
have been a task for the social historians or for the empirical social sciences, if they had dared to want to (Karl
Valentin, cited roughly from memory: „We might have wanted to dare to, but we didn’t dare to want to“). We don’t
want to deprive them of this work and only hope that they will one day be able to quantify our attempt on a better
and more secure basis (after the introduction of scientific freedom).
First we must be clear about those who belong to the circle of those involved. These are, apart from the
organizers of the break with tradition and of the continuing deception of the public, all those in our society who, as
accomplices, make use - as part of their defence of the circumstances in theoretical physics - of the primitive
rhetorical technique of diverting from the dangerous physical questions of criticism of the theory to the holy personage
of the father of the theory and, if this fails to work, to racist defamation of the critic as an anti-Semite, or other form
of slander.
This diversion strategy - from physics to personalization to racism - is practiced and taught by all relativistic
authors of popular science and academic propaganda, so that this technique is also mastered by those who only
know of the so-called famous “findings” through brainwashing or by hearsay, without ever having been in a
position to properly organize critical arguments on the theory themselves, or to evaluate them. The decisiveness of
the conviction as to the greatness of the theory increases, of course, with increasing distance from the matter.
At the core of the brainwashing organized by relativists is the idea of inferiority, that the population can have it
drummed into them with the doctrine that the special theory of relativity cannot be grasped using sound common
sense, and that one needs a special sort of understanding, like that possessed only by people involved in academic
relativity. This sense of inferiority is hammered into the reader, e.g. by Paul Davies and John Gribbin (On the Way
to the World Formula. Berlin: Byblos 1997), as follows:
“With the overthrow of the old view of the world - a paradigm change that has drastically altered our understanding
of reality - it is “sound common sense” that is the sacrificial offering.” (p. 17).
“Some people, in their view of reality, are so captivated by “sound common sense” that they even doubt the
findings of modern physics.” (p. 24).
How can they! Another good example is provided by E. P. Fischer (Einstein. A Genius and His Overtaxed
Public. Berlin: Springer 1996, p. 73):
“The central psychological insight for physics is that one can only understand what its theories mean if one
overcomes one’s own basic instincts, namely “common sense”.”
The propagated intellectual inferiority of the critics has become a continuously encountered idiom of the
propaganda literature. None of the perpetrators of the propaganda, of course, shows how he or she was able to
acquire a greater level of understanding. To demonstrate the inferiority of the critics, Henri Arzéliès (Relativité
généralisée, gravitation, volume 1, 1961, p. XXXII), in evaluating the controversy between relativists and antirelativists,
had unceremoniously declared the „anti-relativists“, i.e. the critics as a group, generally, explicitly and
seriously as being in need of medical treatment:
„La discussion sort du domaine de la physique; elle relève de la psychologie expérimentale ou de la psychiatrie.
Je dis cela très sérieusement, sans aucune ironie.“
The circle of those brainwashed thus extends far beyond those educated in the natural sciences. If one takes the
number of new students in the Federal Republic of Germany each year as a basis, one has to count not only the
students of the natural-science subjects but also all those of the other subjects of study, since they will all be later
be involved in directing and monitoring the society’s channels of information and educational establishments, as
well as all of those who will enter into politics and the administrative bodies responsible for law and order, where
they will essentially adopt a position against the citizens and against all expressions of criticism that might question
the existing balance of power.
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