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By LI ZIFENG*, LI TIANJIANG, WANG CHANGJIN, TIAN XINMIN and WANG ZHAOYUN
Petroleum Engineering Institute, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, 066004, China

This paper studies the current status of special relativity in science and philosophy as well as society, and reasons for special relativity to achieve its fame, and presents three academic viewpoints, four public attitudes, comments of known scientists on special relativity, and lists periodicals, scientific meetings, and networks studying questions on special relativity. We summarize various arguments about special relativity, analyze the logic mistakes contained in special relativity, and investigate the authenticities of validations and applications of special relativity.

Our study indicates that the essence of special relativity is an incorrect logical consequence from the idealist standpoint and analyzes the harms special relativity has placed on science, philosophy, and society. We advocate the materialistic way of seeking truth based on facts and the publication policy that hundreds of flowers blossom and hundreds of schools of thought contend in order to liberate scientific research from the imprisonment of special relativity. The views of space-time and mass-energy of idealistic special relativity should be abandoned and the views of space-time and mass-energy of materialism should be restored and developed.

Keywords: special relativity, philosophy, science, society, space-time view, mass-quality view as one of the two important contemporary physics rationales, the special relativity (Einstein, 1923; Cheng and Jiang, 1978) (SR) has existed for an entire century. The ordinary people have known special relativity and its author, A. Einstein. It is a compulsory part of the curriculum of higher education. However, the rationality in its foundations and accuracy in its deduction have been constantly suspected (rest of the references). Historically, there exist two completely opposite viewpoints about special relativity. One is that the theory is “a giant” in human knowledge, while the other an intellectual “disaster”. Therefore, it is vitally important to investigate the theory’s essence and its influence on science, philosophy and society. Such an effort will make an unprecedented sense to the development of science, technology and philosophy.

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Siehe auch:
Professor Zifeng Li (China) zur Speziellen Relativitätstheorie 
and
New Developments in Theoretical Physics