Preface
Since December 2001 our Germany based Research Project
“95 Years of Criticism of the Special Theory of Relativity (1908-2003)”
has been presented to the public through the distribution of free copies of our documentation in printed form and as pdf-datafiles on CDROM:
G. O. Mueller:
Über die absolute Größe der Speziellen Relativitätstheorie.
Ein dokumentarisches Gedankenexperiment.
Textversion 1.1 - Printed manuscript edition. October 2001. 1005 p. – CDROM edition 2002.
Textversion 1.2. - CDROM edition. June 2004. XXIV, 1159 p.
[Translation of the title: On the absolute size of Special Relativity. A thought-experiment on the effectiveness of critical thought.]
to libraries, government bodies, scientific academies, parliamentary party groups in the federal parliament and the regional state parliaments of Germany, 614 newly elected Members of the Bundestag, 221 journalists of four national newspapers, the editors of printed media with a nationwide distribution, and outstanding personalities.
The 2001 edition has documented the existence of 2896 publications which appeared since 1908 until today in all languages and all countries, with criticism on special relativity and some items on general relativity. The latest edition of the documentation (text version 1.2 of 2004) has added some 900 new items resulting in a total number of 3789 critical publications.
The documentation has been delivered to a selection of some 1480 addressees, mostly in the German speaking countries, together with the invitation to inform the general public about the existence of this documentation and to give rise to a public discussion about the problems brought to light by the documentation. Additionally since 2004 the documentation has been offered for download in the Internet and has been discussed on several German discussion panels.
If we take into account that each CDROM will come to the knowledge of at least two persons, and summing up all visitors of the internet discussion panels during two and a half year with only 20 % of the registered visitors (several thousand), the total number of persons actually informed about the existence of our Research Project probably exceeds 4000.
Which are these problems brought to light?
(1)
Academic physics until today pretend to present with special relativity the greatest achievement of physics in the last century. - The problem: The critics of special relativity show many fundamental flaws of the theory which lead to the judgement about the theory to be sheer nonsense.
(2)
Academic physics pretend that many experiments have confirmed the theory of special relativity, especially the succesful operating of the atomic bomb, nuklear power stations, the GPS system. - The problem: The critics refute all pretended confirmations or as (a) being irrelevant to the Relativity Theories or (b) forged by the experimenters as ardent relativists or (c) intentful selection of certain data (and discarding the rest) or (d) inconclusive interpretations of experimental data, very often disregarding the theory’s own principles.
(3)
Academic physics pretend that there has been some criticism of special relativity only in the first years which has been overruled by the majority view, and since then there has not been any serious criticism. – The problem: The text version 1.2 of our documentation shows the existence of 3789 critical writings on special relativity having been published during the last 95 years until today; these writings offer valuable critical arguments from different aspects of the theory: negation of experimental results, wrong physical assumptions, inherent contradictions, mathematical errors, neglect of the fundamentals of the theory of cognition.
(4)
Academic physics suppress any critical statements or publications and calumniate the critics as cranks, crackpots and antisemites and the like. - The problem: Our documentation shows the critical arguments to be of high quality and generally free from antisemitic tendencies - with the exception of less than 1 percent of all publications, mainly published between 1922 and 1944 in Germany. That means: 99 percent are free from any expressions of antisemitism.
(5)
Academic physics thus suppress the democratic rights of freedom of research and teaching in universities und high schools, and through their informal influence on the printed media their representatives suppress the freedom of speech for the critics in the media. - The problem: In all Western countries the critics as persons are denied fundamental democratic rights.
In Germany the constitution (our Grundgesetz) guaranties in article 5 the freedom of arts and of scientific research and teaching; in other Western democratic countries there are similar legal regulations. The general public in Germany and other Western countries does not know anything about this suppression of fundamental rights of the critics; as a consequence the general public does not know anything about the existence of a strong and continuous criticism which has never been disproved.
The arguments of a criticism that has not been discussed cannot have been refuted. The general public does not know the real status of the theory as a merely unconfirmed hypothesis.
How can these problems be solved?
The possibility that academic physics could eventually recognize their undemocratic and unlawful behaviour against the critics and could correct themselves can be excluded on the ground of their powerful and successful censorship of public opinion working perfectly until today.
Therefore our research project is working to solve these problems with democratic methods. The best way would be to start a legal action against the institutions of academic physics for the reinstitution of the freedom of scientific research and teaching. As far as we know unfortunately we have no right to bring our complaint to court. Evidently the ruling class in academic physics may violate our democratic laws unpunished and without any limitation.
The second-best way is to inform the most important representatives of public opinion about the existence of the documentation and to ask them to inform the general public about the need of reinstoring the freedom of research and teaching in theoretical physics and to start a free public discussion. This we have started in December of 2001 and we call it the
“Experiment on the effectiveness of critical thought” (dokumentarisches Gedankenexperiment).
Since then we have sent about 1600 copies of our documentation to about 1480 adressees (including libraries) in Germany and only to a few adressees in other countries. The development of this distribution free-of-charge we document regularly in a progress report:
SRT-Forschungsbericht. - Erster Tätigkeitsbericht des Forschungsprojekts “95 Jahre Kritik der Speziellen Relativitätstheorie (1908-2003)”. - November 2003. pp. 11. SRT-Forschungsbericht. - Zweiter Tätigkeitsbericht des Forschungsprojekts “95 Jahre Kritik der Speziellen Relativitätstheorie (1908-2003)”. - November 2004. pp. 37.
[Translation of the title: First / Second progress report about the Research Project “95 Years of Criticism of the Special Theory of Relativity (1908-2003)”] In our second progress report (November 2004) we give a list of all our 690 mailings between December 2001 and October 2004 with addressee, contents of the shipment and the name of the town. Since November 2004 the total number of mailings until today (May 2006) has risen to about 1800: this number is much higher than the number of addressees (1480) because several addressees have received both text versions of our documentation and the reports.
During 2004 the owners of three websites have decided to offer our publications for download free of charge:
Ekkehard Friebe (München, Germany):
www.ekkehard-friebe.de/partner.html
Umberto Bartocci (Perugia, Italy):
www.cartesio-episteme.net/fis/mueller.htm
Gertrud Walton (Winchester, UK):
www.btinternet.com/~sapere.aude/
Mrs. Walton has chosen the documentation as a reference for her directory of critics. For the download now she gives a link to the Bartocci-homepage.
We are very much obliged to Mrs. Walton and to the Gentlemen Bartocci and Friebe for their decision to support our project by presenting the publications. We will endeavour to provide them always with the latest versions of our publications.
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