Michael Schmiechen, Berlin
Letters (yet) unanswered!
Last update: 2019.04.18
A collection of letters (yet) unanswered.
Maybe somebody (else) likes to respond.
According to the rules of the game I tend to consider
no answer as consent with my opinion.
On physics of gravity 'deduced' etc
The following
- Requests for reviews
are still open for rigorous criticism.
Last update: 2019.04.18
Further attempts to contact Gerardus t'Hooft and the guest of the Albert-Einstein-
Institut as documented in the following letters concerning my recent paper on the
- Physics of gravity
failed for Kafkaesque reasons.
Last update: 2019.03.13
My following attempts to discuss the most recent exposition of my conception
of gravity with experts in the field suffered the same fate as others before:
they were not even answered.
The Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut f�r Gravitationsphysik,
considers gravity research as closed shop and carefully proctects its own
- 'Coordinated' research.
Sabine Hossenfelder's 'Lost im Math' sounded very inviting, but it turned out,
that she herself is
- Lost in the jargon
of her 'hogan' and did not even care to confirm the reception of my mails.
By the way, different e. g. from England, in Germany critical remarks are
taken as personal offence, and 'consequently' are rarely openly expressed
and discussed.
Last update: 2018.08.16
Zur Gravitations-'Konstanten'
In search for experts on theories of the 'constant' on gravitation
I have written a request to prominent
- experts of gravitation,
so far without any response.
And in the following letter I have contacted colleagues trying 'to nail down'
the 'constant' of gravitation, pointing out to them the implication
of the fact, that this only physical parameter of Newton's theory of gravitation is a
- macroscopic property of ponderable matter
and is identified accordingly.
Last update: 2016.02.16
Brief an (einen) Philosophen
My letter concerning gravitation, directly related to the following,
much earlier entry, addressed to a philosopher,
- Brief an (einen) Philosophen,
has neither been answered by the addressee nor by an astro-physicist,
modestly asked for acceptable reasons of the believe in body force fields
outside bodies, akzeptable Gr�nde f�r den
- Glauben an den Mythos vom Kraftfeld.
Last update: 2014.08.07
'... und Aristoteles hatte 'schon' recht'
Copies of a
- Letter to the editor
of NZZ 'Neue Z�rcher Zeitung', dated On 26.09.2012,
together with
- Meine kurze 'Geschichte' der Gravitation,
have been distributed individually to the colleagues listed,
kindly asking for their attention and rigorous criticism
in the spirit of Karl Popper.
Subsequently the expos�, explaining in extenso the point of view
concisely expressed in a simple axiomatic model of only three pages,
and brought to the attention of experts already twelve years ago,
has been repeatedly corrected, improved where necessary
and updated in view of more recent publications
and discussions, without undue repetitions.
Two discussions have taken place as documented,
while most of the professional addressees did not even care
to acknowledge the receipt of the documents,
forgetting about answering my humble request.
Last update: 2012.11.28
'Wissen verstehen'
'On meta-physics'
'On Amplitude Quantization'
The following letter has been drafted as a contribution
to a paper on the
- Doubochinski Pendulum etc.
As it happens, the author of the paper, Dr. Jonathan Tennenbaum,
living at Berlin, could not be located, thus the contribution
could not be delivered to him directly.
Felt to be of some general interest the contribution is posted here
and may thus find its way to the addressee without address.
Last update: 2012.03.12
'The Weight of Celestial Bodies'
The following letter on the
- Weight of celestial bodies
has been sent to the Editor of 'Spektrum der Wissenschaft'
in 'response' to a paper on 'middle-weight' black holes.
The subsequent correspondence is also documented here
for ready future reference. The contribution has been found
- 'Nicht geeignet f�r Spektrum'.
Last update: 2012.03.20
'The trouble with standards'
Based on a detailed draft the author has proposed
a revision of the standard DIN 1313: 1998-12.
His proposal has been turned down,
without explicit consideration and discussion
of the arguments put forward.
The correspondence of the author with DIN NA 152
and his correspondence with Prof. Arnold Oberschelp
are documented under 'News on general subjects'.
- The last letter of the author,
addressed to a member of the board of DIN,
remained without any response so far.
Last update: 2011.07.18
The trouble with physics
- 'A Letter'
to Lee Smolin at the Perimeter Institute
at Waterloo, Ontario, Canada,
on his 'Trouble with Physics' and
- 'A reminder'.
Last update: 2011.04.22
Cooperation offered
'Correspondence' with Sabine Klapp, at the Institut
f�r theoretische Physik der Technischen Universit�t Berlin
offering a
- 'Cooperation in teaching'
of classical mechanics.
Last update: 2010.10.28
Critical reviews invited
Correspondence with Vera Spillner, inviting a
- 'Critical review'
of my rational reconstruction of classical mechanics.
For purposes of review copies of my opus are available
free of charge on qualified request from the publisher.
On classical mechanics
Letter addressed to Harald M�ller-Kirsten concerning
his new book on
- 'Classical mechanics and Relativity'.
Work on the review of the book has been postponed in favour
of work on an open letter to Dr. Peter Enders.
On knowledge research
On related projects
Request addressed to Jens Wittenburg concerning
- recent projects related
to the reconstruction of classical mechanics
undertaken by the author.
On the mechanism of propulsion
On physical and numerical experiments
On the 'goat' lottery
On the presentation of classical mechanics
On gravitation in classical mechanics
The following
- Letter of 14.11.2000
to Volkmar Schueller at the MPI Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin,
who recently translated Newton's Principia into German,
offers some considerations concerning mechanical models of gravitation
and concerning force and mass concepts.
This line of thought has been continued and communicated in letters
to some colleagues in Berlin concerned with didactics of physics:
- Letter of 23.02.2001,
- Letter of 01.03.2001.
Only the letter to experts in the living encyclopedia 'Wer weiss was?'
has been answered yet and resulted in a discussion documented
under 'What's new?'.
Subsequently the ideas have been further developed and the draft of a
- Call for quantitative confirmation,
has been distributed to colleagues for scrutiny. The following
- Cover letter of 02.07.2001
resulted in the
- Final 'answer' of 04.07.2001,
which is felt to be none.
Inspired by a paper on 'New Physics ...' by Gordon Kane
in Scientific American the following letter to the editors on
- The missing link: classical mechanics
in theories of gravitation has been mailed and remaines unanswered since.
On hydro- and air-foils
- Open letter of 22.05.2001,
addressed to Ulrich Schnabel, editor at DIE ZEIT,
with questions concerning his article on the mechanism of lift,
as discussed in 'Understanding Flight' by David Anderson
and Scott Eberhard published by McGraw Hill.