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

Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
“scientific community”, in which everyone is dependent on everyone else: the doctoral candidates on the group
leader, the group leader on the director; the director on the colleagues in the field, who decide on research
funding and the acceptance of publications.”
This is exactly the reason for the scandal of the suppression and defamation of every bit of criticism of relativity,
which has meanwhile been going on for eight decades. Alone in response to the harmless question as to whether
there is empirical proof of the alleged length contraction one can be confronted with the counter-question as to
whether one has broached the subject for anti-Semitic reasons.”
189 / 2002-10-30 - Alan POSENER c/o Redaktion DIE WELT. Berlin.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 166)
Extract:
“You will probably wonder why we have sent our documentation to you of all people. The reason is your
extraordinarily congenial commentary in DIE WELT, 12.2.02, in which you acknowledge the services of the
revisers, who come from below, and wish the future revisers good luck. We allow ourselves to quote you:
“In times of democracy the most important revisers, however, are not those who come announced from above,
but those who come as a surprise from below. They are not representatives of just authorities against the corrupt
citizens, but are self-appointed advocates of civil rights against presumptions of office and the arrogance of
power.” - “... they are evidence for the enormous force of the individual in a free society which is obligated to the
rule of law. I take my hat off to these representatives of moral courage. And lots of luck to the coming revisers,
wherever they may be!”
We see ourselves as such unannounced revisers from below in a free society obligated to law and order and our
efforts are directed towards free public discussion in which scientific freedom in the field of theoretical physics
must be re-established. We see the “revisers” given in your examples and models as kindred spirits.
Unfortunately, our free society is not so “free” as to allow one to appear as a reviser everywhere without risking
disadvantage. In view of the hierarchy of power in the field of academic physics and the methods of suppression
and defamation of every bit of criticism applied, we are forced to remain in the background so that no one can
torpedo our work, which will still require a number of years to complete. Moreover, the favoured strategy of the
relativists, to divert away from criticism of the theory by defamatory remarks aimed at the persons making the
criticism, should not be given a chance. Our persons play no role here. The matter dealt with is what’s important. At
any rate we welcome your good wishes sent to coming revisers, “wherever they may be”.
For your information we would like to draw your attention to the fact that we have already sent the manuscript
print of our documentation to the Editorial Office of DIE WELT, Field of Culture and Science, on 13th December
2001. The colleagues there will certainly be willing to lend you the easier-to-read printed version. The CD-ROM
has the advantage that the entire text of the documentation can be searched through using the SEARCH function of
the ACROBAT READER.”
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190 / 2002-10-30 - Prof. Robert SPAEMANN. Stuttgart.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 167)
191 / 2002-10-31 - Prof. Franco SELLERI c/o University of Bari, Physics Department, INFN-Section of Bari.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 170)
192 / 2002-10-31 - Prof. Uwe WESEL. Berlin. CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 168)
Extract:
“We allow ourselves to send you this documentation too, because in the discussion with Arnulf Baring
(FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE SONNTAGSZEITUNG, 27.10.02) you have again congenially insisted on
positions that we see as the basis of our work, namely that it is important to “be upright”, and that it is necessary to
“break open structures” that seek to prevent one from taking an upright stand. We believe that you could give an
impulse towards free public discussion on the reintroduction of scientific freedom in the field of theoretical physics.
In this specialist field, not only is the basic right of the freedom to research and to teach refused, but this is
suppressed from above by people who live from taxpayers’ money and who, as public sector employees most of
whom have the status of civil servants, are obligated to honour the German constitution.”
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