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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 \u2013 so as to facilitate improvement or falsification.<\/p>\n

(August 28, revised September 16, 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 that we find ourselves glued to (the body, the now, the qualia including color and 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 \u201cinitial conditions\u201dmomentarily applicable within the laws, to use Newton\u2019s later terms) are consistent. As long as this \u201cmachine conjecture\u201d is empirically fulfilled, 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 may, for example, do a brain operation on one of them to save his life). Levinas called this state of one\u2019s being totally outside the other\u2019s interior side, \u201cexteriority.\u201d The subject has the option of not misusing the infinite power of exteriority by acting fairly towards the poor \u201cmachine\u201d of the other so as if it possessed a subjective side of its own \u2013 even though this cannot be proven and indeed is 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 on a fellow machine, would then put the Dream-Giving Instance to shame \u2013 unless it is benevolent itself. The fact that this risk is being taken by the DGI is a living proof, according to Descartes, that the chain of colorful subjective nows imposed on the victim of consciousness is not a \u201cbad dream.\u201d But this applies only as long as the \u201csteel fibers\u201d of the Cartesian coordinates, proposed to mathematically fit the colorless sub-portion of experience (its \u201cHades part\u201d), prove to be consistent. This empirical question endows the study of their properties with a maximal dignity. In the Greek Hades, all quantitative relations valid in our upper world were preserved \u2013 except for the \u201cblood\u201d that endows them with color and substance. Hence the merely relational (\u201cshadow\u201d) part becomes an instrument by which to do good to one\u2019s fellow inhabitants of the dream who, by their being machines, are totally given into the dreamer\u2019s hand as hostages. This \u201cexteriority theory\u201d (Levinas) endows science with an infinite dignity \u2013 as long as it is empirically consistent. The task to include quantum mechanics \u2013 with its indeterminism and nonlocality explained by micro assignment \u2013 was singlehandedly taken up by Everett in the footsteps of Einstein. (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 Energy-saving voice-signal proportional amplitude-modulation (made distortion-free by negative feedback between rectified high-frequency output and low-frequency input) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Z-incision (a non-mutilating circumcision method) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cInvisible machines\u201d: virtually infinitely many non-negative chemical variables that are almost all zero for most of the time (with arbitrarily long delays incurred at very low concentrations) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Chemical evolution as a special case: forms an Erdoes-type growing automaton (similarly Stu Kaufmann, Joel Cohen and Koichiro Matsuno) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Far-from-equilibrium statistical mechanics and chemical kinetics jointly predict the emergence of life with C-C-C- backbones in liquid water on earth and Europa (and with B-N-B-N- backbones in liquid ammonia inside Jupiter) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Teilhard\u2019s \u201csecond arrow\u201d in statistical thermodynamics is a valid description of the implied asymptotic approach towards \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 Unlike \u201cmetabolic adaptation\u201d (Darwin) which is non-predictive in its history-dependent details, \u201cpositional adaptation\u201d (discovered in a discussion with Konrad Lorenz as being of equal rank) is predictive<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cWhat are brains for?\u201d is a well-posed scientific question (in the new science of deductive biology) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cThe Rossler task\u201d (Michael Conrad) or the \u201cdecision-type traveling salesman problem\u201d (as its re-discoverers, Garey and Johnson, called it in their book \u201cComputers and Intractability\u201d) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Ric Charnov\u2019s \u201coptimal foraging theory\u201d is closely related (finding things \u201cjust in time\u201d is what brains are made for) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Goedel\u2019s incompleteness theorem can be seen as a limiting solution to the NP-complete traveling salesman problem (so incompleteness becomes intuitive) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cThe bacterial brain\u201d (residing in the cell membrane with both sensors and motors) implements a local solution to the \u201csmoothed-out\u201d traveling-salesman problem (with Hans Bremermann) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cThe brain equation\u201d yields a highly efficient local solution to the decision-type traveling-salesman problem<\/p>\n

\u2022 The brain equation attaches a positive or negative weight to all neighboring sources of different types in a distance-, angle- and time-dependent fashion (so that an optimum \u201csum direction\u201d results, with all directions attached an either finite or infinite, positive or negative weight) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Nonexistence of an \u201ceusocial brain equation\u201d (with Thimo B\u00f6hl and Oswald Berthold) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cA universal brain\u201d: the brain equation combined with a powerful \u201cuniversal simulator\u201d (or synonymously \u201ccognitive map system\u201d or Virtual-Reality machine \u201cVR\u201d) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The combined system (brain equation plus artificial cognitive map system with overlap buffer and long-term storage device) is what Bill Seaman calls a \u201cNeosentient\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 The \u201csinc algorithm\u201d (real-space equivalent to a Fourier window in frequency space) can be approximated by a multi-level, multi-resolution, 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 in their realizing von Foerster\u2019s prediction of \u201cPlatonic ideation\u201d) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The technical problem of \u201cfast picture-shifting\u201d in such multi-resolution level neural nets or wavelets, while solved by nature, still eludes science (with Michael Klein) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cPandaka-pygmaea Institute\u201c proposed to solve the Platonic and other brain problems by investigating the smallest fish\u2019s brain (along with that of its normal-sized close relative, Gobius niger) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The positive sum potential in the brain equation \u2013 \u201chappiness\u201d \u2013 is displayed by the young of social animals<\/p>\n

\u2022 One of the sub-potentials in the brain equation \u2013 \u201cbonding\u201d \u2013 is displayed by all social animals<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Huxley\u2019s accident happened independently in the evolution of two mammalian species: tail-wagging signals both bonding and happiness in wolves, and the Smiley face signals both happiness and bonding in humans (similarly Jan van Hoof and Frans de Waal) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cAll Animals Are Autistic\u201d (AAAA): because the brain equation, an autonomous optimizer, is autistic by definition<\/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 (\u201cchemical life\u201d and \u201cbrain life\u201d have equal ranks) <\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Unlike humans and some other species, wolves do not have a 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 to occur: 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 then leads to a state of \u201cbeing moved\u201d in a positive feed-back comprising both sides in the elicited bonding bout) <\/p>\n

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

\u2022 \u201cWas Mom totally moved like scrambled eggs?\u201d [the German word \u201cgeruehrt\u201d means both being moved and being stirred], asked 3-year-old Jonas (in \u201cJonas\u2019 World \u2013 The Thinking of a Child\u201d edited by Reimara Rossler and the author) <\/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): were it not interactively confirmed<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 The person attractor resembles a \u201cfolie \u00e0 deux\u201d (a form of \u201canimal schizophrenia\u201d) 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 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 \u201cpalpable emptiness 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 to the presence of the bonding hormone oxytocin, and moreover form in the majority of cases the partner in the PFC<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Being able to ask a factual question is a new behavioral trait made possible by the PFC<\/p>\n

\u2022 \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 on the basis of the mutual trust between persons<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cPersonology\u201d \u2013 \u201cAdam\u201d means: person made out of soil (with Michael Langer) <\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Most alleged autism in humans is \u201cpseudo-autism\u201d (a lesser fluency in some social conventions) <\/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 made) <\/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 in 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 silence seems to lie 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 a second terrestrial life form is the \u201cgiant leap\u201d involved) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Evolutionarily speaking, the epigenetic PFC is a \u201clethal factor\u201d (since it replaces natural selection by person-controlled caring) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The PFC nevertheless is the opposite of being \u201cevolutionarily lethal\u201d since it represents a jump up into the heart of point Omega (which thereby ceases to be asymptotic in the sense of being unreachable in finite time) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The planet-wide shying-away from galactic export 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 both 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 (the carriers of the most sophisticated brains on earth) deserves to be taken seriously: what function has their daily meeting? (Cf. the unpublished sci-fi story \u201cThe Tale of the Whale\u201d mentioned in the book \u201cNeosentience\u201d 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 Roeller, Kai Grehn and and Klaus Sander) <\/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 (\u2018Welt am Draht\u2019-movie 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 subsequent stoic philosopher Epictetus (as I learned from Bob Rosen) <\/p>\n

\u2022 A mathematical proof that the orangutan brain is functionally superior to the human brain (with Michael Langer, homage to Willie Smits) <\/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, approximately-if-consistently, be 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 long-term continuous-stirred-tank-reactor version\u201d of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, proposed: to check for a \u201clate explosion\u201d in the number of variables produced (with Michael Conrad) <\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

\u2022 \u201cThe sound of chaos\u201d known to everyone (idling motor, hoarse voice) <\/p>\n

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

\u2022 \u201cChaos = disciplined tangle\u201d (with Alfred Klemm who turns 100 this year) <\/p>\n

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

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

\u2022 \u201cRunning electric fan suspended from a long rope\u201d (Olafur Eliasson\u2019s experimental hyperchaos) <\/p>\n

\u2022 X-attractor in 3 D (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 and Peter Sadowski, independently 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 the source of any transfinitely exact 2-D self-similarity or self-affineness (with Michael Klein) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cThe chaotic hierarchy\u201d (the simplest 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 so) <\/p>\n

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

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

\u2022 \u201cFlare attractors\u201d (with Georg C. Hartmann, and with Vela Vilupillai in late homage to Richard Goodwin) <\/p>\n

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

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

\u2022 \u201cThe fat etc. hierarchy\u201d (with Erik Mosekilde) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Particle indistinguishability is transfinitely exact (with Hans Primas, Martin Hoffmann and Joe Ford) <\/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 Peter Weibel) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Endophysics (with David Finkelstein and John Casti) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cBoscovich covariance\u201d (with Edgar Heilbronner, Jens Meier and Matthias Schramm) <\/p>\n

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

\u2022 \u201cSingle-spin chemistry\u201d in ultra-strong magnetic fields (with Dieter Froehlich, Guenter Haefelinger and Frank Kuske) <\/p>\n

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

\u2022 \u201cCession twin of action\u201d with h\/c as its quantum (with Claudia Giannetti) <\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Everett\u2019s observer-centered explanation of nonlocality (1957, p. 149, left column), confirmed<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 \u201cVX-diagram\u201d (correlated photons measured in two mutually receding spaceships): the completed Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox (with John S. Bell, in parallelism to Susan Feingold and Roger Penrose) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Partially satellite-based VX experiment: will prove that more than one quantum world exists (with 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 An evolutionary explanation of the higher female longevity (with Reimara Rossler, Peter Kloeden and Bob May) <\/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 An attempt to found Lampsacus in homage to Anaxagoras (with Ezer Weizmann and Mohamed ElNaschie) [quote from Beer Sheva: \u201cThis is what Israel was meant for\u201d]<\/p>\n

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

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

\u2022 \u201cWM-diagram\u201d: simultaneous signals sent up and down in time across different levels, in gravity (with Dieter Froehlich) <\/p>\n

\u2022 A gravitational-redshift proportional size increase, implicit in the WM diagram (with Dieter Froehlich, Heinrich Kuypers and Jurgen Parisi) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The most energetic photon possible (with Heinrich Kuypers) <\/p>\n

\u2022 All black holes are \u201calmost-black holes\u201d since they are never finished in finite time (with Dieter Froehlich, Heinrich Kuypers, Hans Diebner and Mohamed ElNaschie) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Non-uniqueness of simultaneity on the rotating cylinder (with Dieter Froehlich, Normann Kleiner and Francisco J. Muller) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Correct proof of angular-momentum conservation in gravity (with Heinrich Kuypers and Martin Pfaff) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Only apparent invariance of transverse size in the new locally isotropic gravitational size increase (in parallel to the only apparent invariance of the transverse size in the likewise locally isotropic Lorentz contraction) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Einstein\u2019s gravitational Time dilation possesses three new corollaries: Length, Mass and Charge suffer a proportional or antiproportional change (\u201cTeLeMaCh\u201d 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 a corollary) <\/p>\n

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

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

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

\u2022 Kerr metric disproved (as a corollary) <\/p>\n

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

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

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

\u2022 Black holes are haved of one of their 3 hairs: charge (while mass and angular momentum remain) <\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Eddington-Finkelstein transformation disproved (with apology to my good friend David) <\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Hawking radiation disproved (with apology to a world hero) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cCoordinate singularity at the horizon\u201d: rehabilitated as a physical singularity (via Telemach theorem) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cInterior Schwarzschild solution\u201d disproved<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cSingularity theorem\u201d inside black hole horizon disproved (with apology to my friend Roger) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cWormholes\u201d disproved<\/p>\n

\u2022 Upper half of \u201cFlamm\u2019s paraboloid\u201d replaced by a generic 3-pseudosphere (the lower half disappears) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The Sackur-cell explanation of h entails non-existence on the exo level of all field particles<\/p>\n

\u2022 The exo-nonexistence of the field particles implies that Supersymmetry is nonexistent<\/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 is 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 (meaning \u201cthe parent-feeding ape\u201d) is a more appropriate biological name for Homo sapiens<\/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 (Hanns Ruder introduced me to Forward\u2019s book \u201cThe Dragon\u2019s Egg\u201d) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Electrons have finite volume (owing to Telemach) <\/p>\n

\u2022 As a corollary, string theory is qualitatively (but not quantitatively) confirmed<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Freshly generated black holes are undetectable by the detectors of particle colliders<\/p>\n

\u2022 The empirical ten-orders-of-magnitude \u201cquasar scaling law\u201d extends downwards by some 50 orders of magnitude (owing to the new properties of black holes) <\/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 (once they get stuck) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cClifford conjecture\u201d: finite-universe solutions to the Einstein equation are unphysical (with Walter Ratjen); if so, there exists no \u201cG\u00f6del solution\u201d and no time travel<\/p>\n

\u2022 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 A first consistent history of galaxy formation is taking shape<\/p>\n

\u2022 The newly discovered very far-away mature old galaxy BX442 (more than ten billion light years) is only the first \u2013 optically little-distorted \u2013 example of its kind (besides the many still older quasars) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Low-surface-brightness galaxies (\u201cblack galaxies\u201d) are about 50 billion years old (with Henry Gebhardt) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Giacconi\u2019s ultra-faint equidistributed X-ray sources most likely are ultra-distant ultra-high-redshift quasars \u2013 so that redshift measurements are highly desirable (with Dieter Froehlich) <\/p>\n

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

\u2022 There exist differentiable dynamical systems that are made up, not of 1-D locally parallel threads as customary, but of 2-D locally parallel surfaces (Bouligand-Winfree theory) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Inadvertent re-discovery of Zwicky-Chandrasekhar \u201cdynamical friction\u201d (with Dieter Froehlich and Normann Kleiner, in contact with Ilya Prigogine, Alfred Klemm, Joachim Peinke and Jurgen Parisi) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The not quite straight Hubble-Perlmutter line holds true in a non-expanding Fournier-Mandelbrot cosmos (with Dieter Froehlich, Ramis Movassagh and Anthony Moore) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Dynamical friction numerically confirmed (with Klaus Sonnleitner) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cDeterministic statistical thermodynamics\u201d (with Hans Diebner) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cDeterministic statistical cryodynamics\u201d: exists as a new fundamental science side by side with deterministic statistical thermodynamics (with Klaus Sonnleitner, Frank Kuske and Christophe Letellier) <\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cDeterministic ectropy\u201d in statistical cryodynamics (with Ali Sanayei) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The smaller (almost) black hole in a pair-collision predictably gets re-circulated with all the still in-falling particles which jointly make it up (with Dieter Froehlich) <\/p>\n

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

\u2022 Conjecture: 50 percent of all matter in the cosmos is (almost) black holes (with Dieter Froehlich) <\/p>\n

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

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

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

\u2022 In a classical radiationless atom containing two indistinguishable electrons, two spherical shells are formed (with Dietrich Hoffmann and George Kampis) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Is the \u201cflotor\u201d (Ralph Hollis) a transluminally fast measuring device? (with Peter Plath) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The counterfactual superluminal telegraph is \u201csubluminally confirmable (with Uwe Niedersen) <\/p>\n

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

\u2022 History of the transfinitely exact indistinguishability (Anaxagoras, Gregorius of Naziance, the Mutakallim\u00fan, Bruno, Spinoza, Leibniz, Gibbs, Pauli), in exchanges with Martin Hoffmann, Joe Ford, Hans Primas, Peter Weibel, Alexandre Ganoczy, Richard Wages, Rudolf Matzka Elisabeth von Samsonow, Jurgen Heiter, Anna-Sophie Mahler) <\/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 replacing the universal gravitational constant G and the universal vacuum permeability constant mu-zero, which both remain unchanged locally (similarly Richard J. Cook and Gy\u00f6rgy Darvas) <\/p>\n

\u2022 The nonlinear simultaneity generator in the brain forms a qualitative analog of general relativity (with Eva Ruhnau) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Cryodynamics and thermodynamics, combined, allow for an eternal cosmology in the footsteps of Heraclitus<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 No dark energy, in the absence of accelerated expansion<\/p>\n

\u2022 No Big Bang and no space expansion since cryodynamics explains the Hubble-Perlmutter law in a stationary fractal cosmos<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u201cNo Big Bang\u201d also follows directly from the global constancy of c<\/p>\n

\u2022 No inflation, in 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 distant origin of the background radiation<\/p>\n

\u2022 The decades-old problem of the \u201csurvival conditions of the scientific-technological world\u201d (C.F. von Weizs\u00e4cker) remains a pressing problem of humankind<\/p>\n

\u2022 The new results on black holes (facilitated production, non-evaporation, unchargedness, exponential growth inside matter) change the safety equation of any attempt at producing them on earth<\/p>\n

\u2022 The LHC experiment, designed for producing black holes (amongst other courageous aims like finding the Higgs field), is being run at history-making energies and luminosities for almost two years<\/p>\n

\u2022 Simultaneously CERN refuses to update its 4-years old LHC safety report \u2013 even though a stop may soon come too late<\/p>\n

\u2022 An attempt to convene an \u201cLHC safety conference\u201d (with Markus Goritschnig and many other scientists) fizzled, although a court would humbly suggest it and a whole country had briefly left CERN out of concern (and the United Nations\u2019 Security Council is concerned with the matter for more than a year \u2013 which fact explains the media curfew) <\/p>\n

\u2022 Leo Szilard\u2019s 1948 proposal to slow-down scientific progress by introducing the modern peer review system (which admits only differentiable increments in the fractal landscape of truth) is co-responsible for the current \u201cSleeping Beauty\u201d period in science which may prove suicidal<\/p>\n

\u2022 Proposal to employ the new science of cryodynamics to stabilize Tokamak-type fusion reactors so as to generate unlimited free energy for humankind just got published (I thank Eric Klien for encouragement) <\/p>\n

(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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