[Fis] A Curious Story
Pedro C. Marijuan
pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es
Fri Jan 20 13:58:05 CET 2017
Dear Otto and colleagues,
Thanks for the curious story and sorry that my absorption in low level
administrative themes has knocked me down-down during these weeks. But
not being a physicist, and even not a third rate aficionado, I can
contribute very little to the exchanges. At least I will try to remark a
couple of lateral aspects:
First, when I heard about this story, I was amazed how hysterical the
web records were. On the one side, the tabloid style comments and the
malicious personal attacks, and on the other side the offended,
irritated scientists. That your opinion deserved a "Charge of the Nobel
Brigade" with all those big names hurried together to smitten any
possible doubt, was sort of humorous. Wasn't from Horace that saying of
"vociferant montes et parturient ridiculus mus"? My impression is that
all those hyperactive new media have deteriorated the exchange and
maturation of scientific opinion. The fate of your position on those
hypothetic risks was irrationally discounted.
And about the theme itself, I join one of the initial comments on the
energy of singular cosmic rays, probabilistically having to cause such
microscopic destructive black holes in The Moon and somewhere else. The
wide swaths of the cosmos we watch today do not show sudden instances of
planet or star disappearance. As many thousands and millions of those
are well followed nowadays without reports of sudden destruction: can
this "stable" cosmos be an extra argument in the discussion? Let me
improvise some further views: Black holes relate "quite a bit" to
information matters. The controversy between Hawking, Penrose, etc.
about the fate of the quantum information engulfed seemingly emitted is
not the end of the story I think. If everything should make functional
sense in an integrated "organismic" cosmos, the functionality of black
holes is really enigmatic. They just become a reservoir of dark matter
for gravity? In this point our common friend Michael Conrad (1996)
put"/when we look at a biological system we/ are looking at the face of
the underlying /physics of the universe/." Thereupon, I have always
thought about the similarity between cellular proteasomes (protein
destructing machines) and the cosmic (destructive) black holes. But the
former RECYCLE and emit single amino acid components for reuse, and then
would the latter provide only residual gravity? Lee Smolin said
something bold: they recycle too, and produce "baby universes" with
slightly altered laws of nature. Our planet final blimps would have some
more fun incorporated (with the big IF, of course)...
Best wishes
--Pedro
lEl 11/01/2017 a las 11:33, Otto E. Rossler escribió:
> I like this response from Lou,
> Otto
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Louis H Kauffman <loukau at gmail.com>
> *To:* Pedro C. Marijuan <pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es>
> *Cc:* fis <fis at listas.unizar.es>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 10, 2017 6:09 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Fis] A Curious Story
>
> Dear Folks,
> It is very important to not be hasty and assume that the warning
> Professor Rossler made is to be taken seriously.
> It is relatively easy to check if a mathematical reasoning is true or
> false.
> It is much more difficult to see if a piece of mathematics is
> correctly alligned to physical prediction.
> Note also that a reaction such as
> "THIS STORY IS A GOOD REASON FOR SHUTTING DOWN CERN PERMANENTLY AND
> SAVING A LOT OF LARGELY WASTED MONEY.”.
> Is not in the form of scientific rational discussion, but rather in
> the form of taking a given conclusion for granted
> and using it to support another opinion that is just that - an opinion.
>
> By concatenating such behaviors we arrive at the present political
> state of the world.
>
> This is why, in my letter, I have asked for an honest discussion of
> the possible validity of Professor Rossler’s arguments.
>
> At this point I run out of commentary room for this week and I shall
> read and look forward to making further comments next week.
> Best,
> Lou Kauffman
>
>
>> On Jan 9, 2017, at 7:17 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan
>> <pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es <mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es>> wrote:
>>
> From Alex Hankey
> -------- Mensaje reenviado --------
> Asunto: Re: [Fis] A Curious Story
> Fecha: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 19:55:55 +0530
> De: Alex Hankey <alexhankey at gmail.com> <mailto:alexhankey at gmail.com>
> Para: PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ <pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es>
> <mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es>
>
>
>
> THIS STORY IS A GOOD REASON FOR SHUTTING DOWN CERN PERMANENTLY AND
> SAVING A LOT OF LARGELY WASTED MONEY.
>
> On 5 January 2017 at 16:36, PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ
> <pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es <mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es>> wrote:
>
> Dear FISers,
>
> Herewith the Lecture inaugurating our 2017 sessions.
> I really hope that this Curious Story is just that, a curiosity.
> But in science we should not look for hopes but for arguments and
> counter-arguments...
>
> Best wishes to All and exciting times for the New Year!
> --Pedro
>
>
>
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> *De:* Otto E. Rossler [oeross00 at yahoo.com <mailto:oeross00 at yahoo.com>]
> *Enviado el:* miércoles, 04 de enero de 2017 17:51
> *Para:* PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ
> *Asunto:* NY session
> ----------------------
>
> *A Curious Story*
> Otto E. Rossler, University of Tübingen, Germany
>
> Maybe I am the only one who finds it curious. Which fact would
> then make it even more curious for me. It goes like this: Someone
> says “I can save your house from a time bomb planted into the
> basement” and you respond by saying “I don’t care.” This curious
> story is taken from the Buddhist bible.
> It of course depends on who is offering to help. It could be a
> lunatic person claiming that he alone can save the planet from a
> time-bomb about to be planted into it. In that case, there would
> be no reason to worry. On the other hand, it could also be that
> you, the manager, are a bit high at the moment so that you don't
> fully appreciate the offer made to you. How serious is my offer
> herewith made to you today?
> I only say that for eight years' time already, there exists no
> counter-proof in the literature to my at first highly publicized
> proof of danger. I was able to demonstrate that the miniature
> black holes officially attempted to be produced at CERN do possess
> two radically new properties:
>
> * they cannot Hawking evaporate
> * they grow exponentially inside matter
>
> If these two findings hold water, the current attempt at producing
> ultra-slow miniature black holes on earth near the town of Geneva
> means that the slower-most specimen will get stuck inside earth
> and grow there exponentially to turn the planet into a 2-cm black
> hole after several of undetectable growth. Therefore the current
> attempt of CERN's to produce them near Geneva is a bit curious.
> What is so curious about CERN's attempt? It is the fact that no
> one finds it curious. I am reminded of an old joke: The professor
> informs the candidate about the outcome of the oral exam with the
> following words “You are bound to laugh but you have flunked the
> test.” I never understood the punchline. I likewise cannot
> understand why a never refuted proof of the biggest danger of
> history leaves everyone unconcerned. Why NOT check an unattended
> piece of luggage on the airport called Earth?
> To my mind, this is the most curious story ever -- for the very
> reason that everyone finds it boring. A successful counter-proof
> would thus alleviate but a single person’s fears – mine. You, my
> dear reader, are thus my last hope that you might be able to
> explain the punch line to me: “Why is it that it does not matter
> downstairs that the first floor is ablaze?” I am genuinely curious
> to learn why attempting planetocide is fun. Are you not?
>
> For J.O.R.
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