G. O. Mueller On the Absolute Magnitude of the Special Theory of Relativity Text Version 1.2 - 2004 Supplement, May 2009: Chapter 9 The Thought Experiment English Translation: Rothwell Bronrowan November 2012 Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment Copyright of the English Translation 2012 Ekkehard Friebe The original German publication of 2009: G. O. Mueller Über die absolute Größe der Speziellen Relativitätstheorie Textversion 1.2 - 2004 Ergänzung 2009: Kapitel 9 : Das Gedankenexperiment 263 pp. Download of the complete book (chapter 1-9) available under: http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/buch.pdf G. O. Mueller: STR II 2012 Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment The Research Project of G. O. Mueller: 95 Jahre Kritik der Speziellen Relativitätstheorie (1908-2003) [95 Years of Criticism of the Special Theory of Relativity] Representatives of the Research Project: Mr. Ekkehard Friebe (Munich) Homepage: http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de - Email: [email protected] Ms. Jocelyne Lopez Homepage: http://www.jocelyne-lopez.de - Email: [email protected] Website: Kritische Stimmen zur Relativitätstheorie [Voices critical of the Relativity Theory] http://www.kritik-relativitaetstheorie.de The Documentation: Über die absolute Größe der Speziellen Relativitätstheorie [On the Absolute Magnitude of the Special Theory of Relativity] Kapitel 1-9 [Chapter 1-9] Text Version 1.2 - 2004-2009 Publications in English: 95 Years of Criticism of the Special Theory of Relativity The G. O. Mueller Research Project. Description of a German Research Project of international scope. May 2006. - 51 pp. First Open Letter about the Freedom of Science to some 290 public figures, personalities, newspapers, and journals in Europe and the USA. July 2006. - 7 pp. English Translations: 4th Open Letter on Scientific Freedom Addressed to German-Language Newspapers and Magazines July 2012 - 12 pp. http://www.kritik-relativitaetstheorie.de/Anhaenge/ Offener%20Brief%20GOM%20Medien-englisch-2012.pdf The Documentation, Chapter 2: Catalogue of Errors for Both Theories of Relativity October 2012. - 168 pp. http://www.kritik-relativitaetstheorie.de/Anhaenge/Kapitel2-englisch.pdf (List of all publications with download availability see pp. 219-224) 2012 III G. O. Mueller: STR Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment (Blank page) G. O. Mueller: STR IV 2012 Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment Preface The undertaking of this translation we owe to the initiative and the generosity of Mr. Ekkehard Friebe, representative of our project to the public together with Ms. Jocelyne Lopez. Mr. Friebe provided the financial means and organized the cooperation with Mr. Bronrowan. After our first publications in English in 2006 with a short introduction into our project and the “First Open Letter” to some 290 personalities in 11 countries we intend now to provide a deeper insight into the motives of the project, the understanding of the peculiar circumstances in Germany and our decisions made during the realization. Chapter 9 tries to give an interim balance of our activities. With the publication of this English version we hope to extend the reach of our project and especially the understanding of what we call our Thought Experiment: an experiment about the effects of critical thoughts on the society. We decided to present this chapter to the international public without any editing of the German text which was written for a German public and published in May 2009. Although it referenced some German actualities in autumn 2008 (pp. 14-23) which an international public of 2012 will not be familiar with, this will not hinder the full understanding of our reasoning and our activities. Ninety years of suppression (1922-2012) of all criticism of the theory of special relativity - in the published media as well as in the education system from high school to university - are a catastrophe for the critics as individuals and for the society as a whole. The society still has to learn about its mental state in the catastrophe of relativity. We critics have to show a way out. One attempt is our Thought Experiment. G. O. Mueller 2012 V G. O. Mueller: STR Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment Content of Chapter 9 Page Preface 1. The Need of New Approaches 1 1. The Documentation 2 2. Evading the Trap of Book Publication 3 3. The Catastrophe od Educational Incompetence 3 4. The Thought Experiment 4 5. The Fundamental Right of Scientific Freedom 5 6. The Commentary to the Constitution 6 7. The Masses of Those Affected by the Relativity Catastrophe 7 8. A Vindication of Honour and Optimistic Perspectives 9 9. Open Letters against the Great German Excuse 9 10. At the International Level 10 11. The Supply of the Libraries and the Censorship 11 12. Partners of our Project and the Freedom of the Internet 12 The 12 New Approaches of our Research Project 13 2. Comparison of the Relativity Catastrophe 14 with Other Typical National Scandal 1. The Banker Scandal of Fraudulent Loans 15 2. The Telekom Bugging Affair 16 3. The Siemens Bribery Affair 17 4. The Final Nuclear-Waste Research Disposal Site „Asse“ 19 The Result of the Comparisons 21 3. The Results of Our Thought Experiment So Far 24 The Reactions in the Offline World 24 The Group formed by the Libraries 27 The Reactions in the Online World 28 The Offline World and the Online World 30 G. O. Mueller: STR VI 2012 Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment 4. The Silence of the Addressees 32 No Addressee dares to Protest, to Rebut or to Refute 34 The Comparison with Other Typical National Scandals 34 Single Letters, Identically Worded Letters, „Open Letters“ and Enquiries 35 The Authorization of Our Partners 36 Contents and Organization of the Sending List 36 5. Sending List 38 (A selection of the delivered publications and the most important addressees:) First Publication of the Documentation, Printed / October 2001 38 Private Print / March 2002 43 Private Print, CD-ROM / March 2002 45 15 Ministries in the States of the Federal Republic, Identically Worded Letters / Oct. 2002 53 9 German Academies of Sciences, Identically Worded Letters / Oct. 2002 55 7 German Protestant Academies, Identically Worded Letters / Nov. 2002 60 11 Federal and State Parental Committees, Identically Worded Letters / Dec. 2002 60 First STR Research Report / Nov. 2003 64 Journal Social Text / Nov. 2003 70 21 Federal and State Ministries and Commissions, Identically Worded Letters / Nov. 2003 71 8 German Academies of Sciences, Identically Worded Letters / Nov. 2003 72 11 Federal and State Parental Committees, Identically Worded Letters / Nov. 2003 73 7 German Protestant Academies, Identically Worded Letters / Nov. 2003 73 Second Issue of the Documentation / June 2004 78 72 Party Executives and Parliamentary Factions in the German Bundestag and in the Parliaments of the German States, Identically Worded Letters / July 2004 80 Second STR Research Report / November 2004 89 Letter to Roman Herzog, Ex-President of the Federal Republic 95 Letter to the German Bundestag, Committee for Culture and the Media 103 2012 VII G. 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Mueller: STR Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment Open Letter to the 614 Members of the German Parliament and to 63 Print Media / October 2005 114, 118 Open Letter to 221 Employees on the Editorial Staffs of FAZ - SPIEGEL - SZ - TAZ / Febr. 2006 120 Publication of an English-Language Introduction to the GOM-Project / May 2006 124 First Open Letter to some 290 Public Figures, Personalities, Newspapers and Journals in Europe and the USA / July 2006 126 Open Letter to Federal Minister Schavan / Sept. 2006 131 Open Letter to 100 Professors of the Humboldt-University Berlin and to 100 Professors of the Technical University Dresden and to 45 Media and Publicists / March 2007 133 Letter to the German President Horst Köhler / Sept. 2007 142 Open Letter to the Science Commission of the „Wissenschaftsrat“ [Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee] / Oct. 2007 143 Open Letter to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and to 61 Print Media / Nov. 2007 144 Open Letter to the 639 Members of the Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer [Society of German Constitutional-Law Teachers] / March 2008 146 6. The Thought Experiment in the Internet 163 The Approach of the GOM-Project to the Internet 165 7. 44 Internet Forums 172 8. 79 Home Pages, Blogs, Portals 188 9. 19 Publications of the GOM Project 219 G. O. Mueller: STR VIII 2012 Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment Chapter 9 The Thought Experiment 1. The Need of New Approaches The Break with Tradition of 1922 First Exposed in the Year 2001 The 1922 break with tradition in “theoretical physics”, brought about - firstly - by a seizure of power by the relativists within academic “theoretical physics” as a means of expelling the critical minority from scientific circles and - secondly - by the subsequent breach of faith vis-à-vis the public in concealing this seizure of power, was first exposed in terms of concrete occurrences by the present documentation, text version 1.1, in the year 2001; cf. Chapter 3: The Relativity Fairy Tale, pp. 288-294. In the newer text version 1.2 from 2004, the topic was handled in Chapter 1, Introduction (pp. 14-21) and in Chapter 3, The Relativity Fairy Tale (pp. 270-275). Up until the year 2001 this break with tradition undertaken by the academic “scientific community” had remained fully unknown to the public at large. The organizers of the academic physics community had understandably kept this secret, the other scientists and science historians had said nothing and the professional and general press organizations had been brought into line and had, by strict censorship, prevented the truth from seeping through to the public. Since 1922 the physicists, the other scientists and the media moguls have created a large, secretive action group against the public in Germany, a cartel of censorship and boycott to prevent the very existence of any form of criticism of the special theory of relativity from becoming known.