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Ich nehme Bezug auf meinen Blog-Eintrag: Nikolai Rudakov: „Establishment”.
Aus dem dort genannten Buch (1981): „Fiction stranger than truth – In the metaphysical labyrinth of relativity” von Nikolai Rudakov bringe ich nachstehend eine weitere Leseprobe:

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2 Mystique
Einstein’s theory of relativity is embedded in a peculiar atmosphere of emotionalism, adulation and mystery. For a theory which Claims to be abstract and scientific this is an extraordinary Situation because science, in principle, is not associated with a non-rational environment. In fact, the non-rational excrescences on the body of relativity are so conspicuous that one is inevitably led to the conclusion that Einsteinianism belongs more to the realm of the transcendental than to that of physics. It has many external characteristics, as well as the mysterious nature, of a cult. The only things which are missing and prevent it from being considered as a proper religious denomination are a corporate ecclesiastical structure and an established order of worship.

Like other Systems of faith Einsteinianism has a single and undisputed founder – Einstein. He is not just a physicist, or an outstanding physicist, but the great wise prophet and teacher whose authority extends far beyond the limits of physics. He has disciples and followers who accept his word unquestioningly, who venerate him, and who continue his work with a missionary zeal which defies explanation unless relativity is classified as a predominantly ideological or religious phenomenon.

One of Einstein’s principal biographers describes him as the new messiah (Clark). This is meant literally, not figuratively. Even in a broad sense the term „messiah“ has no place in science, but is applied only within a System of theology or faith. It refers to a redeemer who, it is hoped, will bring about an improvement of the state of man or the world. B. Hoffmann, who worked with Einstein and also wrote a biography, considers him as someone close to sainthood. Bergmann dedicates one of his books to the memory of my revered teacher Albert Einstein. The connotation of „revered“ is not just „respected“ but „venerated“. The associated form „reverend“ is used to address clergymen, not scientists or teachers. The religious overtones are there. Even a Soviet biographer of Einstein, Kuznetsov, cannot avoid Old Testament imagery in order to describe Einstein’s impact on humanity. Einstein, he believes, will in the memory of mankind not remain deprived of the concrete features of a prophet who brought the tables of the covenant from the mount of abstract thought to the people. Einstein is here compared with Moses, and his teaching with the ten commandments.

Every religious or ideological movement has its set of canonical or sacred writings. Einsteinianism is no exception. Despite the fact that Einstein never wrote a definitive account of his theory, it is not difficult to establish what the relativists consider as the inspired writings of their prophet.

First and foremost we have Einstein’s 1905 paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies which has already been mentioned. This paper is supposed to contain the quintessence of his thoughts, and although many people will experience great difficulties in discovering what exactly is so remarkable in this paper, it is nevertheless endowed by Einstein followers with the significance of a major event in the history of mankind.

If the monetary value attached to manuscripts is any guide to the importance of the ideas contained in them or the author who has written them, then Einstein is certainly somewhere at the very top. An amount of several million dollars has been paid for a copy of the 1905 paper hand-written by the author. By comparison, the British Museum purchased the fourth-century Codex Sinaiticus, one of the three earliest New Testament manuscripts, for 200,000 dollars.

Other canonical writings of Einstein include his 1916 paper on general relativity, and his two books: The Meaning of Relativity and Relativity. The Special and the General Theory. The first of the two books represents Einstein’s summary of his views for scientists and mathematicians published after he finished his work on the general theory. The second book is intended to give an exact insight into the theory to those readers who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics. Both books have been reprinted and re-edited numerous times and translated into many languages. German editions by Vieweg and English editions by Methuen and Princeton University Press are still published, more than fifty years after their first appearance.

Very few books achieve the distinction of being continuously published and in demand for a period of fifty and more years. If one looks at the type of book which belongs to this category of ‚Bestsellers“, one will find that most works, if not all, deal with what could be broadly described as the „great and eternal truths“, with the thoughts and actions of the founders of religions and the originators of major philosophical Systems. Frequently a clear line of demarcation between the two groups of people cannot be drawn because religion and philosophy are so closely associated. The Bible, the Koran, Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health, Plato’s Symposium, The Communist Manifesto, etc. have now been joined by Einstein’s two volumes.

The works which deal with the great and eternal truths are usually also the ones which produce a flood of secondary literature. Einstein’s writings are, in this respect, conforming with expectations. By the end of the 1920’s the number of Journal articles and separate publications dealing primarily with Einstein and his theory numbered more than 5000. There is no information available as to the count to-day.

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