I liked Michael Peskin’s article “The end of the world at the Large Hadron Collider?” published two days ago on a prestigiously short new website: http://physics.aps.org/articles/v1/14
The paper is well researched and very clear. This is an optimal short introduction to the physics behind the most prestigious and energetic human experiment of history, aimed at reaching 8 times the focused energy of any previous one in a single strike - and happening to be underway right now. To my regret, I was forced to realize 18 months ago that an innocent joke made by a colleague about a purely theoretical result of mine (gothic-R theorem): “could this affect the safety of the LHC?,” proved irrefutable to my own weak powers. Whenever I had successfully defused the joke, the humorous question got magically resurrected at the next corner in a new guise like a 9-headed hydra. I continue being convinced that it is only a joke that nature is playing with me here when waking up in the morning, but it has never stopped befouling my weak powers. If I had read this article in time, the joke would have had a much harder time to get stuck with me. Or with anyone else for that matter. But now, we all happen to be 18 months into the future and are unable to turn back a Lovecraftian dream.
This widely publicized, excellent paper could not have been written if my two unrefuted findings had been known to the author, so my vanity (or is it fear?) whispers into my ear. The first is the already mentioned general-relativistic gothic-R theorem (to be found on: www.wissensnavigator.com/documents/ottoroesslerminiblackhole.pdf, second paper), the second is the quantum conjecture that neutron stars are transparent to fast-impinging uncharged miniparticles by virtue of their quantum superfluidity (to be found on: www.wissensnavigator.com/documents/spiritualottoeroessler.pdf, last point). Only after at least one of the two has been falsified will we all be back in the paradisiacal state described by the author, if I am not mistaken.
I consider it very plausible that the desinformation policy of CERN’s has shielded the author from his field of research for the last 18 months. Or else he might have found defusing my findings - joke-borne findings after all - so trivial as to overcome them like a flu and forget about them. In this case which I favor, the slower rest of us would very much like to participate in the way the author’s mind worked. For we all have to come back to the present future of that 18 months old joke made by a Tubinger. The poet of the song of joy - also from the area - believed that elegance and fear exclude each other (in his essay “On charm and dignity"). I would be grateful if my own lack of charm at this moment could be quenched by the charm of this excellent paper from a - to me - earlier day. Please, dear author, add those few relieving remarks to your article. For J.O.R.

On the Splendid Article by Michael E. Peskin” by Otto E. Rossler

2008-08-21 | achtphasen | 07:12:39 | Email | 1 comment




 

Comment from: ralfkannenberg [Visitor]
Sehr geehrter Herr Professor Rössler, ich sehe, dass Sie wieder das "Superfluidizitäts-Argument für Neutronensterne" nennen. Dazu wird bereits in der Sicherheitsanalyse http://lsag.web.cern.ch/lsag/CERN-PH-TH_2008-025.pdf in den Kapiteln 5.2 (ab Seite 29) und 8.2 (ab Seite 47) Bezug genommen. Zusätzlich habe ich im astronews-Forum einen eigenen Thread zu dieser Thematik eröffnet: http://www.astronews.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2726, mit freundlicher Einladung zur Diskussion. Freundliche Grüsse, Ralf Kannenberg
PermalinkPermalink 2008-08-21 | 13:38
*
* your email address will not be displayed
  your URL will be displayed