Zwicky 1929: Brighter than the next 91 Years
Otto E. Rossler
Faculty of Science, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
Sept. 24, 2020
Abstract
Fritz Zwicky was a lone wolf. There is a wonderful German-language autobiography of his, titled "Everyone a Genius." He was fearless as a mountaineer and as the first visitor to Hiroshima in 1945. His discovery of Cryodynamics, sister of deterministic Thermodynamics, is highlighted. A dark age thereby manifests itself over 3 generations.
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No one else has played in the same league so far. Fritz Zwicky in 1929 correctly explained the freshly discovered cosmological redshift law of Edwin Hubble’s as being caused by the gravitational interaction of the passing light rays with the cauldron of moving galaxies. The recently discovered fundamental science of Cryodynamics, sister of Thermodynamics, has proved Zwicky correct. As a consequence, the “Big Bang” has ceased to exist.
This is a maximally embarrassing claim to make, of course, since the whole world has grown accustomed to the Big Bang as a fact of nature. It appears impossible that all of humankind, including thousands of textbooks and the Swedish Academy itself, should have overlooked a new fundamental science, twin to Thermodynamics, for 91 years. And so more than a century after the discovery of Thermodynamics itself.
This convincing reasoning notwithstanding, no criticism of Cryodynamics has surfaced since it was first described in 2011. To witness, a long review paper remains without critical response (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-64334-2_30), as do several follow-up papers written by differing authors. The first detailed mathematical proof of the sister science to Thermodynamics is contained in the 2011 doctoral thesis of Klaus Sonnleitner on the Störmer-Verlet algorithm applied to a chaotic Hamiltonian system: StV4. This German-language dissertation (https://docplayer.org/12694730-Dissertation-vorgelegt-von-dipl-math-klaus-sonnleitner-aus-erftstadt-frauenthal-bei-koeln.html) still awaits translation into English. The connection to Zwicky’s work was drawn only later. Thus the re-discovery of Zwicky’s insight was slow in coming. Indeed, the existence of a whole new fundamental science is the price one has to pay. Thermodynamics and Cryodynamics do prove to be of equal rank, notwithstanding the more than a century long time gap that lies between their discoveries.
Not surprising then is the fact that the new fundamental science of Cryodynamics causes repercussions in the fabric of science at large. Even the survival of humankind is at stake. This is because a famous mega experiment – the “LHC” at CERN – proves to be unsafe to earth: A fact which was impossible to fathom before the discovery of Cryodynamics.
Dr. Sonnleitner unfortunately passed away shortly after obtaining his degree in old age. His dissertation reveals the unprecedented “numerical conscientiousness” of its author. The connection to Zwicky’s work then took several years to surface. So did the discovery of the general survival risk undergone by a humankind underestimating Zwicky the Great.
I thank Nils Schopohl for a discussion.
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I strongly recommend Zwicky's autobiography "Everyone a Genius" -- albeit written in German.
See also: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-New-Science-of-Cryodynamics-and-Its-Connection-R%C3%B6ssler/d99faeef1768b1a74598b9c6bc137f67945ada93
For the readers' information: PRL wrote me regarding this paper: “We regret to inform you that we have concluded that it is not suitable for publication in any APS journal.”
Is this a reason to be depressed?
Actually, it confirms the diagnosis of the title. Non-small progress overtaxes the modern mind.
Or may be it is nonsense rather than progress?
Dear Sydney:
Thank you for your gracious criticism.
Fortunately, I do not have to defend my view which task would overtax me.
Zwicky held it first.
I only saw that the new fundamental science of Cryodynamics happens to prove him right.
Take care,
Otto
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