- Black holes do not evaporate.<\/p>\n
- Black holes are uncharged.<\/p>\n
- Black holes cannot eat neutron stars from within. <\/p>\n
- Black holes grow exponentially inside earth.<\/p>\n
- Black holes arise more readily than thought.<\/p>\n
Everybody immediately agrees that so many simultaneous overturns of accepted wisdom are unlikely to be all valid even if no counterproof has been forthcoming for 4 years. If a single one of the first four findings is false, CERN is safe (if the fifth is false, CERN is less unsafe). <\/p>\n
On the basis of this purely probabilistic argument, CERN quietly rejects the \u201cscientific safety conference\u201d requested from the German government by a court. On the same basis, the planet\u2019s print media have resolved to spare their readers the disquieting news that there is an 8 percent chance of the planet being shrunk to 2 cm in perhaps 5 years\u2019 time if all 5 points are true and CERN continues. <\/p>\n
If science were a matter of probabilistic common sense, this decision \u2014 shared by the pope, the queen, the emperor, the president and the helmsman \u2014 would be impeccable. But then the earth would still be flat too. So, please, forgive me for continuing. <\/p>\n
- Point 1 dethrones Stephen Hawking\u2019s famous 38 years old conjecture. (The reason is the Telemach theorem which states that along with the gravitational time dilation T, also length L, mass M and charge Ch co-vary in proportion or anti-proportion, respectively.) <\/p>\n
- Point 2 dethrones the famous electromagnetic extensions of general relativity and the venerable physical law of charge conservation (again Ulysses\u2019 son Telemach is responsible). <\/p>\n
- Point 3 is an implication of quantum mechanics (frictionless superfluidity).<\/p>\n
- Point 4 is an implication of chaos theory (Kleiner attractor).<\/p>\n
- Point 5 is due to the empirical validity of a form of string theory (implicit in point 2).<\/p>\n
That so many new results should hold true simultaneously is highly improbable a priori. Therefore the un-disproved five coincidences amount to a genuine trap posed to humankind by nature: To either give up on 5 scientific dogmas simultaneously or else die with a probability of 8 percent.<\/p>\n
The most recent analog is the 7 plagues sent to a self-righteous pharaoh in an old tale. Then I would be given the role of the prophet \u2013 a 71 years old chaoticist who finds himself forced by destiny to try and bring his contemporaries to dismantling at least one out of 5 insights blown by the wind onto his desk? Fortunately, every earthling retains the chance to survive with 92 percent if CERN continues not tolisten. So maybe I should rather shut up?<\/p>\n
Forgive me for being less risk-prone than many: I insist publicly on CERN\u2019s stopping immediately until one of the 5 fateful coincidences has been removed. My perseverance may have to do with my having seen the uniqueness of the human smile in the cosmos. Old people have strange insights. <\/p>\n
(Elements of an improvised talk given yesterday at the University of the Arts Berlin to unwind Olafur Eliasson\u2019s interdisciplinary conference \u201cLife Is Space 4 Marathon.\u201d I thank the wonderful interactive audience and the organizer who of course do not share in the responsibility. For J.O.R.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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