During the Cultural Revolution, many people tried to demonstrate the feasibility of 10,000 Jin per mu with Marxism, but the theory of relativity was wrong. The result is ridiculous.
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Einstein was reactionary? The farce of criticizing the theory of relativity during the Cultural Revolution.
After the theory of relativity was introduced into China, it and its discoverer were praised for a long time. However, from 65438 to 0952, the Soviet Union launched a movement to criticize Einstein and the theory of relativity, accusing Einstein of being an "out-and-out idealist". Following Big Brother, China published zhdanov's article in People's Daily on June 1953, accusing Einstein of being a relativist and agnostic, and attacking Einstein as a "reactionary", "democratic individualist" and "old democrat".
China's criticism of Einstein was originally influenced by the Soviet Union. However, in the 1960s when the Soviet Union stopped criticizing, due to the domestic political situation, China's criticism of the theory of relativity intensified.
From 65438 to 0965, China Youth Daily held a discussion on whether it should be both popular and professional. Some people take Einstein as an argument and think that even without a Marxist-Leninist worldview, one can still make great contributions to society. In order to refute this view, in April, two people from the Chinese Academy of Sciences wrote that Einstein was not a scientist beyond class and politics. In fact, it was Einstein who suggested that the United States build an atomic bomb, making it a weight in the hands of American imperialism that threatened socialist countries and other peace-loving countries and people. The debate was so fierce that Qian Xuesen was also asked to write a discussion article, and also used the example of "atomic bomb" to show that Einstein did not break away from bourgeois politics.
A year later, the "Cultural Revolution" began. Soon, Einstein and the theory of relativity became the first breakthrough of critical movement in natural science. This critical movement was first caused by a math teacher in Liling Middle School, Hunan. 1967, the teacher went to Beijing to engage in a "revolutionary series" to publicize his "revolutionary theory" about "field theory". He published a paper in the name of "Beijing Field Theory Group" and criticized the field theory in physics according to Chairman Mao's quotations. Relativity is criticized as "not jumping out of the mud pit of mechanical materialism" and "completely violating the law of material contradiction movement taught by our most beloved great leader Chairman Mao". This paper attracted the attention of the Revolutionary Committee of China Academy of Sciences and expressed its support.
1968 In March, China Academy of Sciences established "Mao Zedong Thought Class on Criticizing the Bourgeois' reactionary viewpoint in natural science theory". At the beginning of its establishment, the class thought that "the serious mistake in Einstein's theory of relativity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the progress of natural science at present" and that "Mao Zedong Thought should be used as a weapon to criticize the theory of relativity and change his life" ... Without this, the theory of natural science cannot be pushed to a new stage ".
In June, the class published the first critical article, entitled "Thoroughly Criticizing the reactionary bourgeois viewpoint in the theory of natural science-commenting on the basic principle of the constant speed of light of relativity". The "crime" of relativity is as follows: "Relativity is out-and-out subjectivism and sophistry, namely idealism and relativism"; The principle of constant speed of light "profoundly reflects the reactionary political views of the western bourgeoisie that capitalist society is the ultimate society of mankind, monopoly capitalist productivity cannot be surpassed, and western science is the limit of human science", "fundamentally violates materialist dialectics and has not been directly verified by experiments". In order to strengthen the persuasiveness, this paper quotes Mao Zedong and Lin Biao's "mistakes" in demonstrating the principle that the speed of light is constant.
This article was sent to Mao Zedong, Lin Biao and the Central Cultural Revolution Group. At the same time, the study class is more active in collecting information, brewing and writing follow-up articles.
The second critical article, Critique of Relativity (Discussion Draft), was published in August 1969. This paper puts forward an argument: if simultaneity is relative according to relativity, then in the Treasure Island incident on the Sino-Soviet border in March 1969, we said that the Soviet Union fired the first shot and the Soviet Union said that we fired the first shot. In fact, it is impossible to make an objective judgment on which side fired the first shot. This argument is so powerful that some people who oppose the criticism of relativity dare not defend it, because whoever defends the theory of relativity is a traitor who defends Su Xiu.
Two months later, Critique of Relativity was completed and distributed all over the country to encourage mass movements to criticize Einstein and Relativity. The Central Cultural Revolution Group has repeatedly instructed the deployment and prepared to publish it with a red flag.
Not sure about the consequences of publicly publishing this criticism,1In the autumn of 969, Liu Xiyao, then president of China Academy of Sciences, held a special meeting. In addition to the representatives of the "research class", Zhu Kezhen, Wu, Zhou Peiyuan and Qian Xuesen were invited to attend the meeting. China's "father of the atomic bomb" Wang was also invited, but he refused to attend.
Qian Xuesen said diplomatically: "In view of Einstein's work's very important international influence, I'm afraid we should treat this matter with caution." Wu Shuo: "I don't think this article is well thought out. If we publish it, it will become a laughing stock. " Zhu Kezhen, Zhou Peiyuan and others all opposed the publication of this article.
From 65438 to 0970, the position of this massive critical movement moved to Shanghai, which became an important task of the "Shanghai Revolutionary Committee Writing Group" directly led by Yao. The movement of criticizing relativity continued until 1976, and more than 100 articles were published in newspapers and magazines, most of which were exaggerated "talk in a dream" without scientific basis.
1979 In the spring, scientists gathered in Beijing to commemorate the 0/00th anniversary of Einstein's birth. This meeting marks the end of China's farce of criticizing Einstein.