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Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
227 / 2002-12-19 - Lord Ralf Gustav DAHRENDORF c/o House of Lords. London.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No.: 208) and part-printout of Chapters 1-3.
Extract:
“In your Krupp lecture in Essen (reprinted in FAZ, 6.4.02) on liberal values and globalization you spoke - in gist
- of the requirement for a control exerted by the public, of systematic reconnaissance of corruption and fraud (e.g.
through the organization “Transparency International”), of the theft of rights of participation, of spontaneous
protest as the only possibility, of the apathy of the citizens who pursue their private interests while a nomenclature
of public interest transforms to one of self-preservation of power. This interpretation of yours, applied to
globalization, has greatly astonished us. It also applies word-for-word to the situation of the critics and of the
criticism in the field of theoretical physics since 1922.
The hopeless perspectives to which the critics of the “nomenclature” of the physics establishment have been
condemned since then, is most impressively in the words of Herbert Dingle in his book “Science at the crossroads”
(London 1972; 256 S.), who alone for his critical questions on the theory of relativity - even in liberal Great Britain
- was made a non-person whom no one wished to answer publicly. Several examples in other countries could be
given, but only Herbert Dingle documented the absurdity of the end of his career in a book - a career that began with
a defence (!) of the theory. Herbert Dingle was, after all, once (still in 1953) President of the Royal Astronomical
Society. On his demanding an answer from his critics, he was socially annihilated and declared a moron.
Your liberalism, your sense of justice and your manifold appeals for democratic behaviour have moved us to
send you our documentation, because we believe that, on the basis of your standing in the scientific community and
in the public eye, you are in a position to stimulate a free public discussion on scientific freedom in the field of
theoretical physics.
In DER SPIEGEL (No. 48, 25.11.02, p. 222) you are cited from a contribution of yours in the SÜDDEUTSCHE
ZEITUNG on the death of Augstein, as a statement on Dönhoff and Augstein: “They hated corruption, and indeed
any abuse of power.” We believe that, with this, you have also expressed your own attitude.”
228 / 2002-12-22 - ETH-Bibliothek, Management. Zürich.
CD-ROM 1.1 (Copy No. 91) to the management as a replacement for the apparently lost, first-sent CD-
ROM 1.1 (16.6.02), that on 23.8.02 was correctly reported in the catalogue, evidence of which however was
again removed from the catalogue during the month of November 2002.
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229 / 2003-01-16 - ALLGEMEINER STUDENTENAUSSCHUSS, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT. Berlin.
3 CD-ROMs 1.1 (Copy Nos.: 216; 217; 218) for forwarding to critical physics students.
230 / 2003-01-16 - STUDENTENRAT, TU DRESDEN.
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231 / 2003-01-16 - ALLGEMEINER STUDENTINNEN-AUSSCHUSS DER GOETHE-UNIVERSITÄT. Frankfurt a. M.
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232 / 2003-01-16 - ALLGEMEINER STUDENTENAUSSCHUSS DER GEORG-AUGUSTUNIVERSITÄT. Göttingen.
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233 / 2003-01-17 - ALLGEMEINER STUDIERENDENAUSSCHUSS DER UNIVERSITÄT HAMBURG. Hamburg.
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234 / 2003-01-17 - ALLGEMEINER STUDIERENDENAUSSCHUSS DER UNIVERSITÄT KÖLN. Köln.
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235 / 2003-01-17 - STUDENTISCHE VERTRETUNG DER TECHNISCHEN UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN. München.
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236 / 2003-01-17 - STUDIERENDENVERTRETUNG FAVEVE, FACHSCHAFT PHYSIK, UNIVERSITÄT STUTTGART. Stuttgart.
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237 / 2003-01-18 - STUDIERENDENGESELLSCHAFT WITTEN/HERDECKE e. V. Witten.
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238 / 2003-01-18 - STUDIERENDENVERTRETUNG, BAYERISCHE JULIUS-MAXIMILIANSUNIVERSITÄT. Würzburg.
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