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

2012
Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
A Vindication of Honour and Optimistic Perspectives
Naturally enough, there are no great perspectives in disclosing to the public in the space of a few years an 85year-old
and well-installed, secret system of deceit and deception in all its criminal beauty. However, the research
project can realistically provide at least the historically important evidence that not everyone has been raked in by
this organized stultification.
This vindication of honour for the future by the historical evidence that a few independent thinkers had seen
through, denounced and survived the mental terror and the generally prescribed brainwashing, would in itself have
been a sufficient reason for justifying the effort and expenditure that has gone into the project. The intellectual
resistance against the imposed nonsense could only be concealed, but could never be broken.
Max Planck’s noble hope as to the dying out of the critics has not come to pass. This thought makes one
optimistic, despite the current total suppression. To pass it on is another new approach taken by our project.
Max Planck’s much-quoted comment:
“An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents;
it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the
growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning.” (M. Planck: „Ursprung und Auswirkung
wissenschaftlicher Ideen.“ Lecture, 17.2.1933. In: „Planck: Wege zur physikalischen Erkenntnis.“ 2nd edition,
Leipzig 1934, p. 267.)
is always circulated by the relativists as a great brainwave, though it is actually only the height of primitivism,
in that he denies the decisive role of the dispute and perceives scientific progress solely as a timely drumming in
with the mallet. And that’s exactly how progress is seen in the context of the theory of relativity.
Just recently a publisher of the daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung [FAZ] acclaimed the Planck
quote as a great piece of wisdom (FAZ, 5.8.08: F. Schirrmacher, “Der Solschenizyn-Schock”).
Planck’s claim that the dying-out of the critics is the reason for the acceptance of a new idea can be simply
refuted with the indication that it is only the convincing argument which can persuade the public; for example the
question why „down-under“ one would not fall off the earth has been answered and explained by the discovery of
gravity - and not the dying out of any “unbelieving”.
Max Planck wanted to justify a false physics with a falsified history of physics. This first recognition of Planck’s
history of physics is also a new and necessary approach.
Open Letters Against the Great German Excuse
In the course of the 20th century, after the collapse of totalitarian regimes, our society has already successfully
flown twice behind the great German Excuse:
We didn’t know anything.
We didn’t do anything.
If we hadn’t done it, others would have done it.
Our existence would have been at stake, if we had refused.
To avoid, in good time, any repetition of such a spectacle as it was delivered after the collapse of the two
totalitarian regimes in Germany and now can be expected after the fall of Relativity, our project has not only sent
individual letters to the addressees since 2001, but has also published many „open letters“ since 2005 intended for
specific addressee groups.
The instrument of the open letter, or other forms, is well known and is chosen by many persons and groups as
a means of attracting the attention of the public to their concerns. Few such efforts from critics of the special theory
of relativity are known to us:
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G. O. Mueller: STR