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

Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
Furthermore, it must be said that the results of the G. O. Müller Research Group have been published, on the one
hand in book form, on the other in the Internet. The research results are thereby widely accessible to the public.
Your accusation, that the research group is unable to express its views openly is therefore incorrect, and a violation
of basic rights in respect of free expression of opinion cannot be ascertained.
Yours sincerely,
pp Jürgen Richter
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Prof. Dr. Juergen Richter
Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Section 711, D-53175 Bonn
Tel.: +49 1888 57 3222 Fax: +49 1888 57 8 3222
E-mail: juergen.richter@bmbf.bund.de
In the course of further correspondence Prof. Richter informed Ms. Lopez on 7th May 2007 - i.e. after a further
9 months - that the “scientific experts” for technical enquiries on subsequent experimental examination and
confirmation of the special theory of relativity were to be found at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational
Physics / Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam/Golm.
This reference to the competence of the named institute for the answering of critical questions on the theory of
relativity is also of great importance, because thereby, for the first time since 1922, an academic institution was
allocated by a government authority to respond to criticism of the theory of relativity, which has been strictly
ignored and disowned by academic institutions since 1922.
With the decision of 14th August 2006 taken by Federal Minister Schavan and with the notification of 7th May
2007 as to the competence of the Max Planck Institute the end of the 85-year period of absolute suppression of the
criticism of the special theory of relativity has been rung in. We do not hesitate to describe these decisions are
historical, even if the practical consequences will first be felt in the coming years.
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The Group Formed by the Libraries
The libraries form a group of addressees in their own right. All that the research project expects of them is that
they use the publications they have been given by making them accessible to the public at large, by referring to them
in their catalogues and by holding them ready for use. Publications of the project have so far been sent to 138
libraries in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Sweden,
Switzerland, Spain and the USA.
No library is obliged to take unsolicited gifts into its stocks. Each library decides on such matters autonomously
and independently. Normally libraries will check a gift to ascertain that it fits thematically into their acquisition
profile, and will ensure that they do not have a comparable or better publication already in stock. We know that, as
far as our documentation of the critical literature on the special theory of relativity is concerned, there is no
alternative worldwide. Since 2001 a total of 66 libraries have taken publications of the project into their catalogues.
This is a success rate of (66 : 138 = 0.48 =) 48 %. In this sense the librarians have behaved decidedly more
objectively than our other addressees.
Nevertheless the question as to why the other 52 % of the libraries have decided not to accept our publications
has to be asked. A better source of information on critical literature on this subject matter does not exist. So we may
well assume that the criticism of this theory is regarded as unwanted or as uninteresting or as superfluous. The
librarians assume here the role as the governesses of their readers.
The rejection by university libraries appears to be particularly marked; e.g. in Switzerland and in France the
national libraries have catalogued, but none of the university libraries. In Switzerland the ETH library in Zurich
even took the documentation into the catalogue - and then deleted the catalogue entry again after two months.
In Germany a whole series of university libraries in particular have so far obviously thrown all of the samples
sent to them into the wastepaper basket. The brackets here indicate the number of such samples: Bayreuth (1);
Berlin, Bibliothek des Dt. Bundestages (1); Berlin, FU (5); Berlin, HU (5); Berlin, TU (4); Bremen (1); Dortmund
(2); Düsseldorf (2); Erfurt (2); Frankfurt/O. (1); Halle (2); Karlsruhe, Zentralbibliothek der Forschungszentrum
Karlsruhe GmbH (1); Kassel (1); Cologne (5); Leipzig (3); Magdeburg (1); Mainz (2); Mannheim (1); Marburg
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