Oct 8, 2013
A Reminder to every Citizen of a Planet including its Space Station
Posted by Otto E. Rössler in categories: existential risks, particle physics
Science is based on dialog. Not a single colleague including Hawking and his crew contradicts my safety-relevant finding for 5 years. This fact can only have one of two reasons:
(1) The finding is so embarrassingly stupid that to take it up would suffice to soil the respondent.
(2) The finding harks back so deeply to the young Einstein that it causes fear to tread upon.
One country – my own – singlehandedly left CERN in response (only to surreptitiously return under non-publicized pressure).
Obviously the offered result (“gothic-R theorem”) has historical dimensions. Everyone’s survival is affected by it probability-wise if it is valid. We “live in an interesting time” as the Chinese proverb goes.
800 newspapers reported on the theorem in 2008. Only Aljazeera remained four years later. There is a “curfew of silence” obeyed by my colleagues. Not a single counterargument is in the literature against my result published in 2008 and its many sequels.
Continue reading “A Reminder to every Citizen of a Planet including its Space Station” »