Stefan Marinov THE THORNY WAY OF TRUTH Parti Documents on the process of restoration of the absolute space-time conceptions C EST- OVEST Editrice Internazionalo ^ Stefan Marinov THE THORNY WAY OF TRUTH S Part I Documents on the process of restoration of the absolute space-time conceptions C EST-OVEST Editrlce Internazionale I Published in Austria by International Publishers »East-West« © International Publishers »East-West« Marinov First published in 1982 Second edition, 1987 Third edition, 1988 Addresses of the International Publishers »Kast-West« Affiliates: AUSTRIA — Morrellenfeldgasse 16, 8010 Graz. BULGARIA — ul. Elin Pelin 22, 1421 Sofia. Tel. (02) 66.73.78. ITALY — via Puggia 47, 16131 Genova. Tel. (010) 31.59.78. DRUCK: RM-DRUCK GRAZ, AUSTRIA JIYKA AKO HE TO TtHMEIIl, TOH rjlABA HE HPABH. FpaflHuapcKO npaonjio * If the onion is not trampled down, it does not make a head. Garden rule (Bulgarian). FATtD^ PVR5i/E WHKT HEAVED HA5 pO*nri//VE OW>AlNEr>, W/fat fiBAiON oeMAA^x^. /am sensible -rflArA77E7S«^ Bin- I AJUSO ICNOW WHAT ffjriNlTE: A«E me oo^«p»tES OF THE fl^rafW\MCC CMAfTERTOl PREFACE TO THE RRST EDITION In the present book I gathered a small part of my correspondence with editors of physical journals, their referees, with certain physicists and political persons refer- ring to my fight of long standing for scientific truth in the domain of space-time phy- sics. The correspondence before September 1977 (when I crossed the iron courtain) remained in my Sofia archives and partly was confiscated during the perquisition in April 1977 when I was detained in a psychiatric clinic. The whole correspondence, literary and scientific production (including all copy-books on quantum mechanics) which the police was able to seize in November 1966 when I was imprisoned for a first time was burnt, as the public prosecutor said me after the liberation in 1967. The correspondence after September 1977 was periodically destroyed by me, as I often am expelled from one country to another and I change my home frequently, so that I must always be able to transfer the whole goods and chattels on my own back. Nevertheless, I hope, I succeeded to make an enough systematic, characteristic and representative choice of my correspondence, so that the "landscape after the battle" presented on 200 pages only can restore in the reader's eyes the whole battle without the necessity of appending additional explanations and comments. I give always the originals of the income correspondence. The outcome correspondence is retyped, as I have only the copies of the letters which are bad for a xerox reproduc- tion. The outcome correspondence from Graz (where I lived from July 1981 until March 1982 and where I am living now) is given with the photocopies of the original letters which are good for reproduction. As a rule, I present only one letter from a scientific journal which has rejected a paper of me, but many journals which have rejected papers are not presented. Such is, for example. Prof. A. Klemm (ZEITSCHRIFT FOR NATURFORSCHUNG) with whom I exchanged at least 20 letters and whom I visited personally in Mainz in April 1978, trying to per- suade him and his referee, Prof . Friedrich, to accept a paper. I could not succeed but Prof. Klemm was always very kind with me, whilst Prof. Friedrich offered me a delightful pizza and a very nice conversation, so that I use the occasion to thank them both and to present my excuses that their correspondence is not presented in the book. More than one letter are presented from certain journals (as PHYS. REV., IL NUOVO CI- MENTO, NATURE) and to certain of the rejection letters the referee's comments and my an- swers are attached. I chose such comments and such answers which are clear for a direct reading, but I give always references to the sections of CLASSICAL PHYSICS where the matter under discussion can be found, so that the interested reader can make contact with the discussed article if it has not later appeared in another journal. I hope that these discussions with anonymous (and non-anonymous) referees and super- visors can help the scientific community in the more speedy restoration of the absolute space-time conceptions. On the other hand, with this art of publication I show that the referees of the scientific journals must in the future think and rethink before writing stupid comments, as one can always strip down their trousers. After this introduction (see p. 9 ) there are given a couple of articles from poli- tical journals and magazines which can serve as a biographical sketch. A list of all my scientific publications in space-time physics is given on p. 42. When reading this book and my CLASSICAL PHYSICS (or EPPUR SI MUOVE, or at least my published papers), the reader may pose the question: Why Was it so difficult for Marinov to restore the absolute space-time conceptions, having: (i) crucial experiments with positive outcome, (ii) clear, simple and logic theory, (iii) enough publications in articles and books where both the experiments and the theory are duely presented? - 4 First I think that the restoration of the absolute conceptions was not terribly dif- ficult, as it took me only a dozen of years. Then the reader must take into account that my scientific work was disturbed considerably by the harassments and persecutions to which I am exposed not only in the totalitarian but also in the "parliament" coun- tries, because of my christian communism and unconditional pacifism* and by the fact that since January 1974 I have not a possibility to work in a scientific institution, remaining all those years without a firm job: in Bulgaria I received a monthly pension of ? 80 as a paranoic without the right to take any job, while in the West I worked serving in hotels, washing dishes, picking up apples and cleaning stalls (work which I am doing since a year).** On the other hand, I dedicate a great deal of my time to li- terary, social and political activity, travels, sport and enjoyng the life in an every- day contact with Nature***. Thus, according to me, the restoration of the absolute space-time conceptions was a relatively easy task and I am wondering, indeed, why humanity has erred 3/4 of a century in the relativistic quagmire. Here many explanations may be given: One of the answers is: Noone could execute an experiment rejecting the principle of relativity. Another answer is: The 4-dimensional formalism offers a perfect mathematical tool for calculating the motion and the radiation of particles moving with high velocities. Those are the scientific answers. But there are people who support non-scientific alternatives, as, for example, the alternative that the "international Jewry" resists feverishly against the destruction of the "Einstein myth", and since the Jews have lea- ding positions in science in all countries of the world (in the West and in the East), they suppress any anti-Einsteinian activity.**** I think that the present book can give the right answer. Undoubtedly the unability of mankind in earring out so many years the crucial experiment was an important fac- tor. But I performed such an experiment 9 years ago and the physicists and astronomers still live embracing the "relativistic prejudices". It is true that the "scientific com- munity" is suspicious about the veracity of my experiments, but, as this book shows, from their part there is no interest to see the experiments and a fear to discuss them. Certain scientists (as Held, Cavalleri, Sexl ) are persuaded that the principle of re- lativity is true; they have not the desire to see and discuss anti-relativity experi- ments as people rejecting parapsychology are not interested in observing medianic mani- festations. I consider such scientists as borned but honest persons. However, scien- tists as Bergmann, Finkelstein, Petiau, Wheeler (as I concluded from conversations and correspondence with them) have understood that the principle of relativity is a failure. They make any effort to cover my experiments with silence, because they know that the demonstration of these experiments and their discussion will destroy the present theory on which they have built their scientific careers. I type these lines on the 27 September 1982 (the fifth anniversary of my transfer to the West). As the reader can check (see p. 256) tomorrow the Austrian police must come to arrest and expel me from Austria. When I said to my friend Prof. Borsellino that I am earning my bread and the possibi- lity to continue the scientific research by cleaning in a stall, he made the following witty remark: "E' pitli piacevole pulire la merda dei cavalli che quel la degli uomini." It is not meant the journal NATURE, although with that damned vehicle since 10 years I am also in an almost every-day nightmarish Kafkian contact. It is interesting to note the opinion of a German physicist with whom I had long conversations (he bought 10 copies of EPPUR SI MUOVE immediately after its publication). He is an expert in history of science. According to him I shall be killed neither by the* KGB nor by the CIA since as "anticommunist" for the KGB and as a "communist" for the CIA I am not dangerous at all. But I shall be killed by the Jews. My friend spoke to me so In 1979. Since I am still sane and safe, obviously, until the present day his theoretical prediction is not experimentally confirmed. Of course, I cannot say which scientist to which extent has recognized the failure of relativity.