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Complexity decomplexified: A List of 200 Results Encountered over 55 Years<\/strong><\/p>\n

Otto E. Rossler<\/p>\n

Faculty of Science, University of Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 8, 72076 Tubingen, Germany<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n

The present list was compiled by a \u201cspecialist for non-specialization\u201d who owes this scientific identity to the masters of three disciplines: physicist Carl-Friedrich von Weizsacker, biologist Konrad Lorenz and mathematician Bob Rosen. With the best findings, compressed into a line or two by heart, the synopsis brings hidden patterns to the fore. Simultaneously, the individual results become maximally vulnerable so as to facilitate either improvement or falsification.<\/p>\n

(August 28, 2012) <\/p>\n

Philosophical Preface<\/strong><\/p>\n

Descartes re-invented the rational world of Heraclitus. Specifically he asked the following question (paraphrased): \u201cDo the \u2018assignment conditions\u2019 which we find ourselves glued to (the body; the now; the qualia including color or joy) represent an acceptable state of affairs?\u201d The answer is \u201cyes,\u201c Descartes proposed, if and only if the other two conditions that hold us in their grip (the \u201claws\u201d and the momentarily applicable \u201cinitial conditions\u201d in Newton\u2019s later parlance) are intrinsically consistent. As long as this \u201cmachine conjecture\u201d is fulfilled empirically, an infinite privilege separates the conscious observer from all other inhabitants of the world: The others become \u201cmere machines\u201d in the experience of the first (so that he can, for example, do a brain operation on them to save their life). Levinas calls this state of one\u2019s being totally outside the other\u2019s interior side, \u201cexteriority.\u201d The subject then has the option of not misusing the infinite power of exteriority \u2013 by acting fairly towards the poor \u201cmachine\u201d of the other so as if it possessed a subjective side too even though this cannot be proven and indeed is totally absurd to assume were there not the miracle of the consciousness of the first. A single act of not misusing the infinite power of exteriority performed by the inmate of the dream of consciousness would then put the Dream-Giving Instance (DGI) to shame in case it is not benevolent. The fact that this risk is being taken by the DGI is living proof according to Descartes that the chain of colorful subjective moments, imposed on the subject is \u201cnot a bad dream.\u201d In this vein the study of the \u201csteel fibers\u201d of the Cartesian coordinates that mathematically fit the colorless sub-portion of experience (its \u201cHades part\u201d) acquires a maximum dignity. (Note that in the Greek Hades, all relations of our own upper world were preserved \u2013 except for the \u201cblood\u201d that gives color and substance to them.) The shadow part, as long as consistent, hence becomes an instrument by which to do good to one\u2019s fellow dream figures which being machines are totally given into the dreamer\u2019s hand as hostages. This \u201cexteriority theory\u201d (Levinas) endows science with an infinite dignity, Einstein-style, as long as it remains consistent. The problem of whether quantum mechanics fits in, with its apparent indeterminism reflecting a deterministic assignment, was first taken up by Everett. (I thank Ali Sanayei and Ivan Zelinka for discussions and Stephen Wolfram for encouragement. For J.O.R.) <\/p>\n

The List<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 An energy-saving nonlinear voice-proportional distortion-free amplitude modulation (based on negative feedback) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cAlmost invisible machines,\u201d consisting of virtually infinitely many non-negative chemical variables that with arbitrarily long delays accruing at very low concentrations<\/p>\n

\u2022 Chemical evolution is a special case, forming an Erdos-type growing automaton (similarly Stu Kaufmann and Joel Cohen) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Teilhard\u2019s \u201csecond arrow\u201d in thermodynamics represents a valid description as an asymptotic approach toward \u201cpoint Omega\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cRecursive evolution\u201d: Evolution improves evolution in the first place (with Michael Conrad in the footsteps of John Holland and John von Neumann) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cMetabolic adaptation\u201d (discovered by Darwin) is not predictive in its history-dependent details; however, \u201cpositional adaptation\u201d (while itself implemented by metabolic adaption) is predictive<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cThe Rossler task\u201d (Michael Conrad): The decision-type traveling salesman problem<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ric Charnov\u2019s simultaneous \u201coptimal foraging theory\u201d is a parallel development<\/p>\n

\u2022 G\u00f6del\u2019s theorem can be considered as a limiting solution to the NP-complete traveling salesman problem (which fact makes it intuitive) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The \u201cbacterial brain\u201d implements a suboptimal local solution to the \u201csmoothed-out traveling-salesman problem\u201d (with Hans Bremermann) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cThe brain equation\u201d: Yields an efficient local solution to the decision-type traveling-salesman problem<\/p>\n

\u2022 An eusocial version of the brain equation does not exist<\/p>\n

\u2022 A \u201cuniversal brain\u201d: Brain equation combined with a powerful \u201cuniversal simulator\u201d (or synonymously cognitive map system or Virtual-Reality machine) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The \u201csinc algorithm\u201d (real-space equivalent to a Fourier window in frequency space) can be approximated by a multi-level (both ascending and descending) Reichardt-von-Foerster type neural net (with Bernhard Uehleke) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cTolerance attractors\u201d form under recurrence in such a neural net, implementing Poincar\u00e9-Zeeman-Poston-DalCin \u201ctolerance theory\u201d and realizing von Foerster\u2019s dream of \u201cPlatonic ideation\u201d (with Michael Klein) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The \u201cproblem of fast picture-shifting\u201d in multi-resolution neural nets, while solved by nature, eludes mathematical understanding<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cPandaka-pygmaea Institute\u201c: Was proposed to solve this and other brain problems by investigating the smallest fish brain (and that of its normal-size relative, Gobius niger) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The positive sum-potential in the brain equation (\u201chappiness\u201d) is displayed by the young of social animals<\/p>\n

\u2022 One particular sub-potential in the brain equation (\u201cbonding\u201d) is predictably displayed by social animals independently of age<\/p>\n

\u2022 Two distinct displays (like \u201chappiness\u201d and \u201cbonding\u201d) can, through an evolutionary accident called \u201cHuxley evolutionary ritualization,\u201d acquire a functional overlap<\/p>\n

\u2022 This accident happened independently in the evolution of two mammalian species: tail-wagging signals both affection and happiness in wolves, and the Smiley face signals both happiness and bonding in humans (similarly Jan van Hoof) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cAll animals are autistic\u201d (AAAA): because the brain equation, an autonomous optimizer, is autistic<\/p>\n

\u2022 Every brain-equation-carrier is \u201calive\u201d independently of hardware because it solves the positional adaptation problem which is no less vital than the metabolic adaptation problem ( biochemical life and brain life have equal rank) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Universal brains are \u201cmirror-competent\u201d owing to their high simulational capabilities<\/p>\n

\u2022 Unlike humans and some other species, wolves do not have an universal brain (their VR component is too weak for mirror-competence) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Smile-laughter overlap + strong bonding + mirror-competence = sufficient condition for an \u201cepigenetic function change\u201d in the sense of Robert Rosen, called the \u201cpersonogenetic function change\u201d (PFC) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The PFC consists in the invention of the \u201csuspicion of benevolence shown by the other\u201d (which leads to a state of \u201cbeing moved\u201d in a positive feed-back comprising both sides) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The PFC represents an example of \u201ccreation out of nothing\u201d (the suspicion of, and production of, benevolence) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cPerson attractor\u201d (Detlev Linke): The new stable mode of functioning arising in the PFC<\/p>\n

\u2022 The PFC can be seen to be nothing but a misunderstanding (a mistaken convergence concocted in the universal simulator; but it is interactively confirmed<\/p>\n

\u2022 The fact that the PFC represents a joint functional trap allows one to speak of \u201cNature\u2019s Schadchen trick\u201d (with Roger Malina) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The person attractor resembles a \u201cfolie \u00e0 deux\u201d (a form of animal schizophrenia) compared to the physiological (autistic) functioning of the two autonomous optimizers with cognition<\/p>\n

\u2022 The PFC constitutes a miracle worked by the toddler<\/p>\n

\u2022 Watching this creation-out-of-nothing being achieved by the toddler is a maximally moving event; there appears to be no recorded documentation of this \u201choly of holies\u201d of humankind<\/p>\n

\u2022 Friendly teasing jokes (\u201chumor\u201d) are implicit in the PFC<\/p>\n

\u2022 The mutually confirmed suspicion of benevolence acquires the character of an \u201cobjective truth\u201d (there is no older objective truth) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The \u201cmiracle\u201d goes still further: A third fictitious person is involved in the personogenesis (called \u201cgod\u201d or \u201cBuddha\u201d etc. in different cultures): The Dream-Giving Instance DGI or, synonymously, the \u201cnon-I\u201d (or even the \u201cemptiness behind the dream\u201d) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The \u201cnon-I\u201d arises concomitantly with the \u201cI\u201d and the \u201cyou\u201d (the two other persons created in the PFC) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Women are probably more religious (they statistically have more \u201cheart\u201d in the sense of bonding and in regard of the presence of the bonding hormone oxytocin, and moreover in the majority of cases are the partner in the PFC<\/p>\n

\u2022 A \u201cnonautistic languaging\u201d automatically develops as a consequence of the PFC (similarly C. Andy Hilgartner) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Human society in all its essential aspects is formed as a consequence of the PFC: Society is based on asking questions and giving answers \u2013 on the basis of the mutual trust between persons<\/p>\n

\u2022 The mentioned \u201cphysiological autism\u201d of every autonomous optimizer with cognition persists in human beings with an innate \u201csmile blindness\u201d strong enough to prevent the epigenetic PFC from occurring<\/p>\n

\u2022 The causal explanation of autism enables a causal therapy: The caretaker can deliberately produce an \u201cacoustic smile\u201d whenever momentarily happy (the acoustic smile consists in a tender bonding noise) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The fact that the caretaker must be the essential bonding partner proves that modern child cribs are a collective tragedy (their uninformed use explains the global rise of autism) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The \u201ccausal therapy of autism\u201d has been shunned by the profession for 37 years (only Gregory Bateson approved of it) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The reason for the silent boycott probably lies in the fact that the person attractor is \u201ctoo easy to elicit\u201d: Young mirror-competent bonding animals can predictably be lured into the personogenetic function change, too<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cGalactic export\u201d is the technical term for the export of the personogenetic bifurcation towards non-human mirror-competent bonding animals (since the \u201csmall step\u201d of recruiting another terrestrial life form is the giant leap involved) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The planet-wide shying-away before the main step is an example of a collective subconscious \u201cspeciesism\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 The fear is palpable ever since Gregory Bateson and John C. Lilly\u2019s joint student, Margaret Howe, tried to adopt a male dolphin 47 years ago; Koko (Francine Patterson\u2019s gorilla life partner) and Kanzi (Susan Savage-Rumbaugh\u2019s grown-up bonobo child) are underrated<\/p>\n

\u2022 Stephen Spielberg played on the same taboo in his movie \u201cAI\u201d \u2013 which brings-in the added feature that his non-biochemical person is potentially immortal (a fact he played-down tactfully) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Leo Szilard introduced non-human persons in his 1948 sci-fi story \u201cThe Voice of the Dolphins\u201d (written in the aftermath of his failure to prevent his other brainchild, the bomb, from being dropped) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The \u201cRosette phenomenon\u201d of sperm whales deserves to be taken seriously: What function has their daily meeting? (Cf. the author\u2019s Sci-Fi story \u201cThe Tale of the Whale\u201d mentioned in the Neosentience book by Bill Seaman and the author) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cHorizontal exteriority\u201d in the sense of Emmanuel L\u00e9vinas, is the omnipotence of the PFC, re-activated in an act of fairness<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cVertical exteriority\u201d is the matching term in the theological sense of Edmond Jab\u00e8s (with Nils R\u00f6ller) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cA program can force the programmer to reply\u201d (with Christa Sommerer and Adolf Muschg) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cSimulacron Three\u201d (by Daniel F. Galouye 1964) and \u201cA Puppeteer\u2019s World\u201d (by Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1973) are anticipations of the same insight (followed by the \u201cMatrix\u201d movie and Ray Kurzweil\u2019s \u201cSingularity Theory\u201d) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The \u201cTuring test\u201d \u2013 a test for personhood \u2013 got first passed in ancient Rome by the Cretan slave and later stoic philosopher Epictetus (as I learned from Bob Rosen, with Bill Seaman) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Mathematical proof that the orangutan brain is functionally superior to the human brain<\/p>\n

\u2022 An equation for a universal immune system (with Robert A. Lutz) <\/p>\n

\u2022 A chemical universal circuit (with Dietrich Hoffmann) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Differentiable automata exist mathematically (because certain ordinary differential equations can be approximately if correctly described by automata theory) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Well-stirred automata exist physically<\/p>\n

\u2022 Reaction scheme for a temperature-compensated chemical clock<\/p>\n

\u2022 An \u201cultra-longterm continuous-stirred-tank-reactor version\u201d of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction proposed: To check for a \u201clate explosion\u201d in the number of variables (with Michael Conrad) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cTraffic-light\u201d version of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction (with Reimara Rossler) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cSlinky attractor\u201d (with Okan Gurel) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cReinjection principle\u201d is valid in more than two-dimensional phase spaces (independently Christian Mira) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Chaotic electronic multivibrator (built with Hartmut Waible) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cThe Rossler attractor\u201d (Norman Packard) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cSpiral chaos\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cScrew-type chaos\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cThe sound of chaos\u201d (idling motor; hoarse voice) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Chaos (a stereoscopic sound movie made with Reimara Rossler and Thomas Wiehr 1976) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cHyperchaos\u201d (name courtesy Paul Rapp) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cThe sound of hyperchaos\u201d (like raindrops falling on a car\u2019s roof) <\/p>\n

\u2022 X-attractor (still unidentified) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cPlaydough task\u201d (to be given to thousands of toddlers to find the hoped-for X-attractor) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Atrio-ventricular heart chaos (with Reimara Rossler and Herbert D. Landahl) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cEndocrinological chaos\u201d (with Reimara Rossler, Peter Sadowski and Colin Sparrow) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Chaos in the Zhabotinsky reaction (with Klaus Wegmann, in parallel to John L. Hudson) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cCloud attractor\u201d (with James A. Yorke) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cFolded-towel map\u201d (in parallel with Masaya Yamaguti\u2019s \u201cfolded handkerchief map\u201d) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cPunctured hyperchaos\u201d as source of any transfinitely exact 2-D self-similarity (with Michael Klein) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cThe chaotic hierarchy\u201d (the simplest pertinent equation was subsequently found by Gerold Baier and Sven Sahle) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Explicit differentiable Smale-Urysohn solenoid (with Pal Fischer and W.R. Smith) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cTransfinitely invertible attractors\u201d (almost everywhere) <\/p>\n

\u2022 First explicit Poincar\u00e9 recurrence (with Georg C. Hartmann) <\/p>\n

\u2022 A generic Milnor attractor (with Francisco Doria and Georg C. Hartmann) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cFlare attractors\u201d (with Georg C. Hartmann) <\/p>\n

\u2022 A \u201csociety of flare attractors\u201d (with Georg C. Hartmann) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cHyperfat attractors\u201d (with John L. Hudson and Erik Mosekilde) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Particle indistinguishability is transfinitely exact (with Hans Primas) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Deterministic entropy (with Hans Diebner) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cGibbs-Sackur cell\u201d in phase space<\/p>\n

\u2022 Classical unit action (the system-specific Sackur cell) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Micro time reversals in the Sackur cell of the observer (with Richard Wages) <\/p>\n

\u2022 An estimate of Planck\u2018s constant (based on Sackur cell) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Causal (exo) explanation of quantum mechanics (with David Finkelstein and Peter Weibel) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Causal (exo) explanation of spin (with Michael Conrad) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cSingle-spin chemistry\u201d in ultra-strong magnetic fields (with Dieter Fr\u00f6hlich, G\u00fcnter H\u00e4felinger and Frank Kuske) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cSecond Periodic Table of Elements\u201d (single-spin chemistry) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cCession twin of action\u201d: hc (with Claudia Giannetti) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Everett\u2019s global Psi-function replaced by Boltzmann\u2019s global H-function (on the exo-level) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Everett\u2019s observer-centered explanation of nonlocality (1957), confirmed<\/p>\n

\u2022 The momentarily consciousness-bearing Sackur cell in the brain determines both h and c \u2013 a conjecture (with Reimara Rossler and Peter Weibel) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cVX-diagram\u201d in spacetime of the \u201ccompleted Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox\u201d (with John S. Bell, in parallelism to Susan Feingold) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The partly satellite-based VX-type EPR-Bell experiment: To prove that more than one quantum world exists (similarly Anton Zeilinger) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Locally-counterfactual superluminal telegraph (with Uwe Niedersen and J\u00fcrgen Parisi) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Everett immortality (with Markus Fix and Bryce DeWitt) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Aging equation (with Reimara Rossler and Peter Kloeden) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Evolutionary explanation of larger female longevity (with Reimara Rossler and Peter Kloeden) <\/p>\n

\u2022 A constant-temperature physico-chemical time-of-life clock in the body, predicted (with Reimara Rossler) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Melatonin as a likely \u201chandle\u201d of the time-of-life clock (with Reimara Rossler and Peter Kloeden) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Lampsacus, hometown of all persons on the Internet (with Valentino Braitenberg and Gerhard J. Lischka) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Early attempt to found Lampsacus (with Ezer Weizmann and Mohamed ElNaschie) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cEarth-Moon University\u201d in Lampsacus (with Wilfried Kriese, Artur P. Schmidt and George Lasker) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The 16-level \u201cpyramid of knowledge\u201d (in Lampsacus) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cWM-diagram\u201d in time across different levels in gravitation (with Dieter Fr\u00f6hlich) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Gravitational-redshift proportional size increase (with Dieter Fr\u00f6hlich, Heinrich Kuypers and Jurgen Parisi) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Non-uniqueness of simultaneity on the rotating cylinder (with Dieter Fr\u00f6hlich) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Proof of flatness for the famous Ehrenfest rotating disk<\/p>\n

\u2022 Black holes are \u201calmost-black holes\u201d (with Dieter Fr\u00f6hlich, Heinrich Kuypers, Hans Diebner and Mohamed ElNaschie) <\/p>\n

\u2022 A first proof of angular-momentum conservation in gravity (with Heinrich Kuypers) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Einstein\u2019s gravitational Time dilation possesses three new corollaries: Length, Mass and Charge suffer a proportional or antiproportional change (TeLeMaCh theorem) <\/p>\n

\u2022 General relativity is in for a far-reaching mathematical and physical re-interpretation<\/p>\n

\u2022 c is globally constant (Max Abraham, rehabilitated) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Nonexistence of gravitational waves (as corollary) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Nonexistence of gravitons (as corollary) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The famous \u201cindirect evidence for gravitational waves\u201d (Hulse-Taylor), explained instead by tidal friction (with Dieter Fr\u00f6hlich and Ren\u00e9 Stettler) <\/p>\n

\u2022 A \u201cReeb foliation in spacetime\u201d exists around any rotating black hole (with Dieter Fr\u00f6hlich, following stimulation by Art Winfree) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Kerr metric disproved (via Telemach theorem) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Ur-meter disproved (via Telemach theorem) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Ur-kilogram disproved (via Telemach theorem) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Charge conservation disproved (via Telemach theorem) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Reissner-Nordstrom metric disproved (via Telemach theorem) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Eddington-Finkelstein transformation disproved (via Telemach theorem) (with apologies to my close friend) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Bekenstein theory disproved (via Telemach theorem) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Hawking radiation disproved (via Telemach theorem) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The \u201ccoordinate singularity\u201d at the horizon rehabilitated as a physical singularity (via Telemach theorem) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Interior Schwarzschild solution: Proof of nonexistence<\/p>\n

\u2022 Singularity theorem inside black hole horizon (Penrose) proven non-existent (with a\u00fcologies to my superior friend) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Wormholes proved non-existent<\/p>\n

\u2022 Upper half of Flamm\u2019s paraboloid: Replaced by a generic 3-pseudosphere; lower half proven nonexistent<\/p>\n

\u2022 Supersymmetry disproved (field particles do not exist on exo level) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The human Lorenz matrix (of facial expressions): A universal natural facial-expressions simulator (with Wilfried Musterle) <\/p>\n

\u2022 An equation for a one-dimensional \u2013 purely temporal \u2013 brain (with Michael Conrad; similarly Susie Vrobel) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Evil as a contagious disease (unlike the good, evil cannot arise spontaneously) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Children and adults form two different species, ethologically speaking (with Konrad Lorenz) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cPongo goneotrophicus\u201d is a more appropriate biological name of Homo sapiens (meaning \u201cthe parent-feeding ape\u201d) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Biochemical life (including Robert Forward\u2019s nuclear-chemical life) on the one hand, and \u201cbrain life\u201d on the other, are functionally disjoint<\/p>\n

\u2022 A transfinitely exact version of Edward Fredkin\u2019s Digital Information Mechanics (including both classical indistinguishability and universal time-reversal invariance) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Electrons have finite volume (follows from Telemach theorem) <\/p>\n

\u2022 As a corollary, string theory is qualitatively confirmed<\/p>\n

\u2022 The qualitative confirmation of string theory implies that a successful generation of black holes by particle colliders has become much more likely<\/p>\n

\u2022 Freshly generated black holes are undetectable at nuclear colliders<\/p>\n

\u2022 The empirical \u201cquasar scaling theorem\u201d is extended downwards by some 50 orders of magnitude<\/p>\n

\u2022 There exist no more unstoppable and voracious parasites in the universe than black holes<\/p>\n

\u2022 Miniature black holes grow exponentially inside solid matter (after getting stuck) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cClifford conjecture\u201d: Finite-volume universe solutions to the Einstein equations are predictably unphysical (with Walter Ratjen); in this case, no \u201cG\u00f6del solution\u201d exists and no time travel is possible<\/p>\n

\u2022 The fractal dimensionality of the cosmos is close to unity, not only empirically but also theoretically (\u201cFournier-Mandelbrot solution\u201d to the Einstein equation) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Low-surface-brightness galaxies (\u201cblack galaxies\u201d) are extraordinarily old<\/p>\n

\u2022 A first consistent history of galaxy formation becomes possible<\/p>\n

\u2022 Giacconi\u2019s ultra-faint equidistributed X-ray sources are most likely ultra-distant, very-high-redshift quasars (so that redshift measurements are maximally desirable) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The microwave background radiation is predicted to merge smoothly with equal-temperature galactic-halo objects (therefore the raw data of the \u201cPlanck mission\u201d need to be published) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Existence of differentiable dynamical systems that are made up, not of one-D locally parallel threads but of two-D locally parallel surfaces (Bouligand-Winfree theory) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The Hubble-Perlmutter law holds true in a non-expanding Fournier-Mandelbrot cosmos (with Dieter Fr\u00f6hlich, Ramis Movassagh and Anthony Moore) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Zwicky-Chandrasekhar \u201cdynamical friction\u201d numerically confirmed (with Klaus Sonnleitner) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Deterministic statistical thermodynamics (with Hans Diebner) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Deterministic statistical cryodynamics: Exists as a new fundamental science besides deterministic statistical thermodynamics (with Klaus Sonnleitner and Frank Kuske) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cDeterministic ectropy\u201d formula (with Ali Sanayei) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The smaller (almost-) black hole in a collision gets predictably \u201cre-circulated (with Dieter Fr\u00f6hlich) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Black hole mergers are a source both of charged and of uncharged cosmic rays<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cMetab\u00e1llon anapa\u00faetai\u201d (metabolizing it remains unchanged): Heraclitus\u2019 transfinitely recycling cosmology proven valid after 2 \u00bd millennia<\/p>\n

\u2022 Abramowicz\u2019s \u201ctopology inversion\u201d near black-hole horizon confirmed (with Dieter Fr\u00f6hlich) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cIdentity jumps\u201d between 3 indistinguishable classical particles on a ring calculated (with Peter Weibel and Richard Wages) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Two shells form in a classical atom containing two indistinguishable electrons<\/p>\n

\u2022 The counterfactual superluminal telegraph is \u201csubluminally confirmable\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 A counterfactual world-change machine (with J\u00fcrgen Parisi) <\/p>\n

\u2022 History of transfinitely exact indistinguishability (Anaxagoras, Gregorus of Naziance, the Mutakallim\u00fan, Giordano Bruno, Spinoza, Leibniz, Gibbs, Pauli, Hans Primas, Alexandre Ganoczy, Richard Wages, Rudolf Matzka) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cEverett-Schr\u00f6dinger Russian Roulette\u201d (with Markus Fix) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Unit \u201cel-action\u201d is a new universal conserved quantity (like the unit action) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Unit \u201cel-cession\u201d is a new universal conserved quantity (like the unit cession) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cG-zero\u201d is a new fundamental constant of nature, replacing the gravitational constant G and the magnetic constant mu-zero which both remain locally constant (similarly Richard J. Cook) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The nonlinear simultaneity generator in the brain is qualitatively reminiscent of general relativity (with Eva Ruhnau) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Proposal to use the new science of cryodynamics to stabilize Tokamak-type fusion reactors (enabling unlimited free energy for humanity) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Cryodynamics and thermodynamics, combined, allow for a revived eternal cosmology in modern science in the footsteps of Saint Augustine<\/p>\n

\u2022 No WIMPs since cold dark matter was disproved<\/p>\n

\u2022 No dark energy since accelerated expansion was disproved<\/p>\n

\u2022 No big bang and no space expansion since cryodynamics explains the Hubble law in a fractal cosmos<\/p>\n

\u2022 No inflation owing to the absence of space expansion<\/p>\n

\u2022 No \u201cprimordial\u201d nucleosynthesis in the absence of space expansion<\/p>\n

\u2022 No Sunyaev-Zel\u2019dovich cutoff, in the absence of a very distant origin of the background radiation<\/p>\n

\u2022 The \u201csurvival of the scientific-technological world\u201d-problem (C.F. von Weizs\u00e4cker) is once more the most pressing problem of humanity (with Eric Klien) <\/p>\n

\u2022 An attempt made to convene an \u201cLHC safety conference\u201d (with Markus Goritschnig) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Absence of Emile-Zola type intellectuals in our present time, and of devoted high-ranking journalists and politicians \u2014 if the following fact holds true: The European Nuclear Research Council CERN is for many months continuing operation of its LHC experiment at historic energies and luminosities while refusing to address an (to the best of my and everyone else\u2019s knowledge) un-falsified published scientific proof of black-hole danger, or to at least update its 4-years-old safety report<\/p>\n

(Note: Friedrich Valjavek kindly compiled an annotated bibliography in 2002: http:\/\/www.wissensnavigator.com\/documents\/RosslerBibliography.pdf<\/a> ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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