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Beitrag aus dem GOM-Projekt: 2394 weitere kritische Veröffentlichungen
zur Ergänzung der Dokumentation Textversion 1.2 – 2004, Kapitel 4.

A letter from the editor to the readers / In: Episteme. An international journal of science, history and philosophy. Nr. 6, Parte 2. 2002, 21. Dez., ca. 6 S.
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Der Herausgeber präsentiert zum Abschluß der ersten 3 Jahre der halbjährlichen Zeitschrift "Episteme", die sowohl gedruckt erscheint als auch online veröffentlicht wird, ein Sonderheft (Nr. 6, Teil 2), das ganz der Kritik der Relativitätstheorien gewidmet ist. Er berichtet von sich selbst (in der dritten Person), wie er als Mathematiker zur Kritik der herrschenden Physik gekommen ist:

"He used to teach modern formalistic mathematics, telling his students – as it is usual under these circumstances – that the highly sophisticated approach they were called to follow (since the very foundations), was necessary, due to the "well known" great achievements of physical research at the beginning of XXth Century.

Most teachers roughly satisfy the need of motivations in this way, but the editor decided, at some point of his career, to study with more attention the previous statement, in order to be able to persuade better (mostly himself!) that the renunciation to intuition, which was demanded by the formalistic approach to the "nature" of mathematical objects, was rather justified, and wise – notwithstanding his long personal teaching experience, which, quite at the contrary, had shown very clearly to him that mathematics could have been taught in a quite simpler way by using at the beginning the intuition of ordinary space (euclidean geometry, measuring, real numbers) and time (arithmetics, counting, natural numbers, order), instead of abstract structures. So he went on studying the physical connection, analysing in some detail the famous historical experiments, which led people such as Feynman to claim that "classical" explanations were "absolutely impossible".

When he started this research he was quite sure that he would have found all in perfect order, and that he would have come back to his beloved pure mathematics in a very short time: but 20 and more years have elapsed since then, and he has found himself more and more sinking into a deep bog, and he was persuaded at last that the "magnificence", and the experimental ground, of some theories as relativity, or quantum mechanics (in its widespread "irrational" Copenhagen interpretation) was more an effect of propaganda, rather than of objective science (namely, a science which is based on certain experimental data, and deductions), or of logical "impossibilities".

This persuasion of the necessity of a new literal revolution, of the restoration of ordinary rationality in Natural Philosophy, appears – we would dare say – a common thread connecting the papers collected in this volume, wholly dedicated to criticism and alternative to the pillars of XXth Century physics, relativity, relativistic cosmology, etc."

Formuliert in Fußnote 11 sein Urteil über die akademische Physik: "… it appears very unlikely that the establishment would be willing to recognize that relativity gave a quite misleading image of the universe, and that they followed a completely wrong path for more than 100 years."

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