1 On Prof. Dr. Werner Frank’s Recent Book Reviews: Unzicker and Haumann

that require correction, lest readers of his reviews become unduly influenced by his false assertions. I will address Frank’s comments in reverse order to his book reviews and therefore begin with his appraisal of the book by Haumann. I first remark that Haumann rightly draws attention to the fact that definitions used by physicists are very often too vague to connote any real meaning and that this has led to confusion and contradiction, rendering theories such as that for the black hole, big bang cosmology, General Relativity, quantum mechanics, and the Standard Model of particle physics unsustainable. The theme of Haumann’s book is contained in the quotation he adduces on page 22 of his book, “Language is the principal tool with which we communicate; but when words are used carelessly or mistakenly, what was intended to advance mutual understanding may in fact hinder it; our instrument becomes our burden. ” Frank has failed to grasp this message and rails against Haumann’s thesis in a rather unscientific manner, committing various errors that Haumann actually refers to in his book. For example, let us consider Frank’s comments on the ‘mass-point’. He remarks tha