I started to publish on general relativity in 1992 with about 20 papers to my credit since. I hereby brought in a differential-topological viewpoint, a sister field in which I have about 10 times more publications. <\/p>\n
Chaos theory gives you a \u201cfeel\u201d for nontrivial dynamical behavior. Poincar\u00e9 had founded both disciplines and Birkhoff continued in both. My friend Edward Lorenz of chaos fame was a pupil of Birkhoff\u2019s. The differential-topological perspective is in some respects broader than the differential-geometric one of traditional general relativity. Chaos theory in addition is a \u201cbarefoot science\u201c which allows important results to be gathered with simple geometrico-topological means and low-priced computers.<\/p>\n
My most recent paper in the field, titled \u201cTelemach,\u201d is maximally simple but arrives at powerful consequences (including several new unit actions in physics). Two of its 3 new elements had already been seen by other authors. It moreover simplifies a sophisticated result obtained 5 years ago in the context of the Schwarzschild metric of general relativity; It toppled the venerable law of charge conservation in physics. I owe the simpler derivation in part to a fruitful conversation with my colleague Hermann Nicolai three years ago. It was he who opened up my eyes to the power of the new charge non-conservation in physics. <\/p>\n
The main T\u00fcbingen insight in general relativity arose in a course held jointly with Dieter Fr\u00f6hlich in 1997: If clocks are slower-ticking on a lower floor in gravity as known, what about the topology of the \u201c1-D map\u201d formed by light rays shuttling back and forth between two different height levels: is it chaotic (non-unique) or is it just a bijection? The latter answer \u2013 no chaos \u2013 took us by surprise. In its wake we slowly accumulated \u201cneighboring\u201d results. The latter proved to hold true even in the context of Einstein\u2019s earliest seminal insight \u2013 the equivalence principle \u2013 which now is Telemach\u2019s home.<\/p>\n
That Telemach has so startlingly many new consequences \u2013 including new quantized actions in physics \u2013 took us by surprise. That he in addition can save the planet from the worst blunder of history is a side effect that is very hard to handle: we need help with that. <\/p>\n
I hope the planet can forgive the T\u00fcbingen school for insisting on rationality. If my Swabian voice sometimes appears too foreign, I humbly request the help of more circumspect personalities who have experience with filling a political role. Or does saving the planet from a suicidal blunder exceed the definition of \u201cpolitics\u201d? <\/p>\n
Every scientist can look at my two papers. What is so scarce is time \u2013 if CERN starts to continue without first admitting the logically necessary safety conference as it already starts doing. This is why I asked Netanyahu, Obama and Putin for their kind help during the past few days. I today turn to Hu Jintao with deep respect. China just published my gothic-R paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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