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Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment 351 / 2003-11-19 - SOCIAL TEXT, Editorial Office. Centre for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers State University. New Brunswick, NJ. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 Extract: “The situation is rather bizarre: while in all other fields of science there is permanent criticism and discussion of theories, only in theoretical physics there has been organized the silence of a cemetary to protect relativity theory from critical arguments, and still more bizarre is that nobody in the sciences and the history of sciences seems to have noticed this cultural disaster. Since the special theory of relativity in the public opinion has survived until today as one of the greatest achievements of science, in reality it has been disproved since at least 1914 (experiment of Sagnac), and the few features of the theory which have a basis in reality (as example: e=mc²) are no relativistic effects and the famous formula is not the idea of Einstein: the relativists simply have usurped the achievement of Thomson 1881, Wien 1900, Poincaré 1900 and 1904, Kaufmann 1901-05, Hasenöhrl 1904 (see our documentation pages 131-132). - The ruins of the theory are covered by social constructions as the cult of genius and the powerful suppression of any criticism and even the critics as persons, and relativity theory thus has become a theory of simple sociophysics. The proofs and details of this diagnosis - physical and historical - you will find in our documentation. (...) We are aware of your dispute with certain representatives of the sciences (Alan Sokal). We know the German edition of the book A. Sokal, J. Bricmont: Fashionable nonsense. 1998 under the title „Eleganter Unsinn“, München: Beck 1999. In the German edition there is a chapter (no 12) which was part of the French edition, but not in the original English edition, and therefore has been translated from the French. This is a very interesting fact because this chapter is dedicated to Henri Bergson, who was one of the best and sharpest critics of relativity theory since 1922 (Durée et simultanéité). In our German edition this chapter fills the pages 206-228: these are 25 pages exclusively about the criticism against the special relativity theory, and are a condemnation of any criticism as stupid and outdated. The addition of this Bergson chapter is interesting because Bergson was no post-modernist and no structuralist and no contemporary of the criticized sociologists. Let‘s summarize the themes of this book of Sokal/Bricmont: - with Lacan they criticize his mathematics, - with Kristeva they criticize her logic and mathematics, - with Feyerabend they criticize his methodological relativism of „anything goes“, - with Bloor, Latour they criticize the „strong programme“, - with Irigaray her hydro-mechanics, - Chapter 6 (page 145-154): Latour they criticize for his misunderstanding of relativity theory and use of relativity theory for non-physical objects; - Chapter 7 deals with chaos theory; Chapter 8: Baudrillard; Chapter 9: Deleuze and Guattaris book „What is philosophy?“; - Chapter 10: Virilio they criticize for his misunderstanding of relativity theory; - Chapter 11: Gödel and mathematics. What does this overview of the book‘s content until chapter 11 show? Only chapter 6 and 10 treat among other subjects the relativity theory, and the cited authors (Latour, Virilio) with no word criticize the relativity theory, only misunderstand and make wrong use of the theory. This is the result for the reader of the English version of the book. Only in the French version for a French public with knowledge of Bergson‘s work which carries a strong criticism of the relativity theory the authors think it useful to strengthen relativity theory by reducing Bergson to a blockhead in physics. To the first purpose of the book - criticism of sociological and epistemological relativism - there is added a completely new second purpose: calumny of criticism of the relativity theory. This new second purpose remains in the German edition. This is the second reason that we think our documentation may be of interest to your Journal. You probably will find out quickly why the American reader has not been confronted with Bergson‘s criticism of relativity theory. We are convinced that a journal like SOCIAL TEXT has the influence to start a discussion in America about the suppression and slander against criticism in theoretical physics: this suppression and slander we judge to be a cultural disaster. A discussion in America will spread to the European countries where the situation of theoretical physics is similar. 70 G. O. Mueller: STR 2012
Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment In Germany our „Grundgesetz“ guarantees the freedom of science and research but this fundamental right practically has been abolished for theoretical physics.” 2012 352 / 2003-11-19 - TIME, European Head Office, Editorial Office. Amsterdam. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 353 / 2003-11-19 - THE TIMES, Editorial Office. London. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 Identically Worded Letters Sent to 21 Federal and State Ministries and to the Relevant Federal and State Committees, November 2003 Extract: “Today we allow ourselves to send you, as an attachment, the first research report on our project with the courteous request that you check the result of the examination of our documentation instigated by you, and what need for action is seen by your ministry.” 354 / 2003-11-20 - Staatsministerin Christina Weiss, BEAUFTRAGTE DER BUNDESREGIERUNG FÜR ANGELEGENHEITEN DER KULTUR UND DER MEDIEN. Berlin. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 355 / 2003-11-20 - BUND-LÄNDER-KOMMISSION FÜR BILDUNGSPLANUNG UND FORSCHUNGSFÖRDERUNG (BLK). Bonn. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 356 / 2003-11-20 - BUNDESMINISTERIUM FÜR BILDUNG UND FORSCHUNG, Minister E. Bulmahn, MdB. Berlin. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 357 / 2003-11-20 - STÄNDIGE KONFERENZ DER KULTUSMINISTER DER LÄNDER IN DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND (KMK). Bonn. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 358 / 2003-11-22 - MINISTERIUM FÜR WISSENSCHAFT, FORSCHUNG UND KUNST. Stuttgart. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 359 / 2003-11-22 - BAYERISCHES STAATSMINISTERIUM FÜR WISSENSCHAFT, FORSCHUNG UND KUNST. München. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 360 / 2003-11-22 - SENATSVERWALTUNG FÜR WISSENSCHAFT, FORSCHUNG UND KULTUR. Berlin. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 361 / 2003-11-22 - MINISTERIUM FÜR WISSENSCHAFT, FORSCHUNG UND KULTUR. Potsdam. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 362 / 2003-11-22 - SENATOR FÜR BILDUNG UND WISSENSCHAFT. Bremen. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 363 / 2003-11-22 - FREIE U. HANSESTADT HAMBURG, BEHÖRDE FÜR WISSENSCHAFT U. FORSCHUNG. Hamburg. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 364 / 2003-11-22 - HESSISCHES MINISTERIUM FÜR WISSENSCHAFT U. KUNST. Wiesbaden. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 365 / 2003-11-22 - MINISTERIUM FÜR BILDUNG, WISSENSCHAFT UND KULTUR. Schwerin. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 366 / 2003-11-22 - NIEDERSÄCHSISCHES MINISTERIUM FÜR WISSENSCHAFT UND KULTUR. Hannover. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 367 / 2003-11-22 - MINISTERIUM FÜR SCHULE, WISSENSCHAFT UND FORSCHUNG DES LANDES NRW. Düsseldorf. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 368 / 2003-11-22 - MINISTERIUM FÜR WISSENSCHAFT, WEITERBILDUNG, FORSCHUNG UND KULTUR DES LANDES RHEINLAND-PFALZ. Mainz. STR Research Report, Nov. 03 71 G. O. Mueller: STR
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