Aztecism holds when a society bets its existence on a commonly held belief which entails this society’s own annihilation – as the old Aztecs did.

This statement belongs into the field of the professional historians. However, it in addition also possesses an uncanny actuality to date. For all of us – the whole world – have ever since 1929 learned to live with the scientific conviction that there once existed a Big Bang and that the universe is still young and expanding to date. All high school kids and all newspaper readers across the world share in this belief which got reinforced by some ten Nobel medals over the decades. To place doubt in their conviction automatically raises pitiful eyebrows.

This self-righteous common belief is, of course, based on a majority consensus maintained for 90 years. It could in principle still turn out to be mistaken, but such a case has never occurred in modern history before.

“Do you really place doubt in a planet-wide scientific consensus acquired by the best minds and the most prestigious societies over 9 decades?” is the question. “If so, something is bound to be ticking wrongly with you. Presumably, the Moon landings are also put in question by you,” so every pupil is ready to laugh out loud.

The notion of Aztecism stands for an irrational conviction held by a whole society. So much more for the worse if I now confess to the reader that I do adhere to the outrageous conviction of Zwickyism.

May I elaborate? I begin by admitting that I am the first author on quite a few unchallenged scientific publications which claim to prove that maverick astronomer Fritz Zwicky was right in 1929 with his ridiculed so-called “tired light theory” of the cosmos. The whole world is chuckling because it appears highly unlikely that we all live in an Aztec society for 90 years – or do we?

The kids who follow me can stop reading here. What I will continue to say next is only of interest to adults who have experience with how to deal with ingrained ideologists. In other words: this is a case for the psychologist?

Unless it deserves to be shreddered, the present text presents a very disturbing message. We all have heard the story of the ghost driver who complains about the flood of ghost drivers encountered by him. On the other hand, this is also the secret dream of every scientist: to for once come into a situation in which you determine the direction of further scientific progress. Provided, of course, that you are not deluded. Therefore the above scenario is a very rare event to reckon with in reality – much too rare for it to occur in a lifetime, right?

But the unlikely does sometimes apply. The famous science of Thermodynamics from more than a century ago does not stand alone anymore for a few years, for example. It has acquired a sister science which had been overlooked for more than a century, called Cryodynamics. Cryós in Greek means cold, thermós means hot. A side effect of the existence of the new science is that there was no Big Bang, as this was first seen by Zwicky in 1929.

“But if you lean yourself as far out of the window as you just did,” so you will reply, “then further implications of a sensational character are bound to be announced by you in a minute?” Yes Sir, do I respond meekly, there is especially one point: “No CERN safety for earth anymore.” The for 11 ½ years non-renewed official planetary safety report LSAG of CERN’s comes to everyone’s mind here as a historical fact.

After my having just made this accusation, you will understand why I have for a decade become an outlaw in the scientific community, one who is unworthy even of the benefit of the doubt. Imagine: to claim that ten thousand living scientists (at CERN) are deluded in sync along with 9 decades of mainstream science – this is an absolutely ridiculous claim of mine, is it not? And to proclaim in addition that this new view puts the continued existence of earth at risk if it is not addressed, is bound to be a case of irresponsible fear mongering. Although this is exactly what a today unknown crackpot once tried to convince his fellow Aztecs of.

I sympathize with your unavoidable logical skepticism: Cryodynamics clearly is “too big a jump” to be easily absorbed by the community. I would nonetheless be very glad if there were a few high school students on earth ready to give me the benefit of the doubt, Greta Thunberg included. So far, the very existence of her movement points to the existence of a subconscious connection between my a decade old results and the heroic Friday movement of today.

You have now seen my worried soul, my dear adult reader. Please, do not hate me too much for my driving my lonely scientific car in an allegedly non-ghostly direction. And forgive me if I love your children more than I see you do in case I am not mistaken.

Otto E. Rossler, a chaos researcher

November 29, 2019