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Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
These realizations apply to an astonishing extent to the handling of critics of the theories of relativity by the
press. Right up to the present day the journalists allow themselves to be brought into line and to be used in
suppressing and sweepingly defamating of every bit of criticism of the theory in the field of theoretical physics.
With this behaviour the media manipulates public opinion in a flagrant way. In our media-oriented society the
media has a great deal of power and is, with respect to the pressure exerted by the “scientific community”, not a bit
wary or alert as regards such influence. And the media has not dared, since 1922, to speak out on behalf of the
victims of the suppression and defamation, namely the critics in the field of theoretical physics, and certainly not
“over a long period of time.”
The parallels between your reporting topic “war” and the topic of scientific reporting are convincing. Due to the
generally acclaimed fundamental importance of the theory for our view of the world and as a showpiece of our allround
education, the public must have a vital interest in subjecting all of the contents of its all-round education to a
strict rational examination. Why the physics establishment seeks to prevent free public discussion at all costs is
something you can best discover by speaking with the representatives of this establishment. Perhaps you can also
gain some interesting insights in discussion within your editorial staff. At any rate, it must at least interest you why,
in a certain field of science, the freedom of science should remain done away with.”
701 / 2004-12-05 - Hans LEYENDECKER c/o Süddeutsche Zeitung. München.
CD-ROM 1.2 with printout of 93 sample pages, 2nd Progress Report.
Extract:
“Dear Mr. Leyendecker
Since with the year 2005 the centenary celebrations for the special theory of relativity are pending and the entire
educated world believes that it knows that this theory is one of the best-verified theories of physics; the propaganda
of the field of academic physics extending to all social classes and age groups, from the nursery schools (“With
Uncle Albert Through Space and Time”) via the esoterics (who are planning their own time travel) and the seniorgrade
pupils (who in the no-less-esoteric special courses in physics have to calculate how many years younger the
twin brother who has travelled in space returns to his twin brother who has remained on the earth) to the halfeducated,
who must believe that the famous formula E=mc² is a discovery made by Albert Einstein, because the
authorities in the classroom and those occupying university chairs and under Nobel hats pronounce this. Against
the splendour of this prospect of a precise science, we have prepared a small contrast program which we allow
ourselves to hereby present to you as an attachment, i.e. the work results to date of our research project.
The aim and objective of our project is to comprehensively document the criticism of the special theory of
relativity, which since 1922 has been suppressed and slandered in Germany (and in other countries too) by the
academic physics establishment, to inform the public about the suppression and defamation that has taken place up
to date and to demand free public discussion as a means of introducing scientific freedom in the field of theoretical
physics, to which the critics in Germany have a basic right (!) since 1949.
In view of the above-outlined public attitudes, our project will have to give rise to something like a minor
culture shock and must therefore also reckon with considerable resistance from all of those engaged in the present
and prevailing system of suppression of scientific freedom, who as worshipers of a physical theory have leaned so
far out of the window that they can no longer recognize the true state of affairs, determined by the criticism over a
period of decades, without losing face.
The research project documents the following circumstances against the denial, suppression and defamation of
every bit of criticism and, on this basis, makes certain demands:
1. The officially denied criticism of the special theory of relativity exists. As from the year 1908 - i.e. over many
decades - it has continuously been published and such publications continue right up to the present day. Internationally
speaking, there has been an increase in the rate of publications over the past decade. Our documentation identifies
3789 critical publications in the new text version.
2. Since 1922 this criticism in Germany has been suppressed, its reception in the specialist literature and by the
public has been prevented, and the critics have been slandered as being only stupid, envious, anti-Semitic, Nazi or
otherwise maliciously motivated, as a basis for claiming the moral entitlement not to have to confront such
criticism. Our documentation to date shows that, from the entire number of publications recorded, only one percent
had an anti-Semitic tendency and that these publications were restricted to the years 1922-1945.
3. The prevention of reception of the criticism in the specialist literature by means of suppression and exclusion
proves that a non-received criticism cannot have been argumentatively dispelled and refuted, so that claims as to its
being the “best-confirmed” theory in physics are unjustified, since it can in no way have achieved this status.
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