Otto Rössler
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Otto E. Rössler (born 20 May 1940) is a German biochemist.
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[edit] Biography
Rössler was born in Berlin. At the age of 17, he became an amateur radio operator (DR 9KF). After considering becoming a monk, Rössler chose to major in medicine, with a speciality in immunology, for ethical reasons.
He was awarded his MD in 1966. Rössler then began his post doc at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Psychology, in Bavaria. In 1969, he started a visiting appointment at the Center for Theoretical Biology at SUNY-Buffalo. Later that year, he became Professor for Theoretical Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen. In 1976, he became a tenured University Docent. In 1994, he became Professor of Chemistry by decree.
Rössler has held visiting positions at the University of Guelph (Mathematics) in Canada, the Center for Nonlinear Studies of the University of California at Los Alamos, the University of Virginia (Chemical Engineering), the Technical University of Denmark (Theoretical Physics), and the Santa Fe Institute (Complexity Research) in New Mexico.
In June 2008 Rössler emerged in the public eye with an open letter[1] as one of the strongest critics of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) proton collision experiment supervised by the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, trying to raise awareness of the possibility of creating human-made uncontrollable mini black holes with assumed exponential growth which might get trapped in Earth's gravity due to their slowness of movement compared to the natural phenomenon of proton collisions with cosmic rays.
He based his warnings on a known but hardly noticed proposition made by Max Abraham in 1912 surrounding Albert Einstein's theory of relativity as well as his own, yet theoretically disputed [2][3][4], gothic - ℜ theorem and its implications.[5] He also questioned the existence of the Hawking radiation which in theory should lead to the decay of micro black holes. A majority of experts in these fields dismissed his claims as substantial misconceptions of the general theory of relativity, as well as being inconsistent and disproved through measurement experiments. [6][7][8][9]
Apart from the refutation of his theory, which he challenged others to debate, his public step up and call for an LHC Safety Conference[10] started a discussion about the ethical limits of modern experimental physics in mainstream media all across Europe.
Rössler has authored around 300 scientific papers in fields as wide-ranging as biogenesis, the origin of language, differentiable automata, chaotic attractors, endophysics, micro relativity, artificial universes, the hypertext encyclopedia, and world-changing technology.
[edit] Bibliography
- Encounter with Chaos, 1992, (ISBN 0-38755-647-8)
- Endophysics: The world As an Interface, 1992, (ISBN 9-81022-752-3)
- Jonas World – The Thinking of Child, 1994,
- The Flaming Sword, 1996, (ISBN 3-7165-1017-3)
- with René Stettler: Interventionen. Vertikale und horizontale Grenzüberschreitung. 1997, (ISBN 3-87877-627-6)
- with Peter Weibel: Aussenwelt – Innenwelt – Überwelt. Ein Gespräch. 1997, (ISBN 3-87877-628-4)
- with Wilfried Kriese: Mut zu Lampsacus. Das Internet als Chance. 1998
- with Artur P. Schmidt: Medium des Wissens. Das Menschenrecht auf Information. 2000, (PDF; 1,61 MB
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as well as the audio book CD Descartes' Traum, a compilation of his short lectures read by himself. 2002, (ISBN 3-932513-28-2)
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[edit] References
- ^ Otto E. Rössler (2008-06-09). "Warum ich vor dem LHC-Experiment warne / The reason I warn about the LHC experiment"" (PDF). Otto E. Rössler (German ). http://wissensnavigator.ch/documents/enrico.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-08-07.
- ^ Professor Dr. Gerhard W. Bruhn (2008-08-07). "Commentary on two papers by O.E. Roessler on black holes". Darmstadt University of Technology. http://www.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/~bruhn/CommRoesslerPaper.html. Retrieved on 2008-08-07.
- ^ Otto E. Rössler (2008-08-08). "Prof. Otto E. Rössler's answer to Gerhard W. Bruhn". Otto E. Rössler. http://www.achtphasen.net/index.php/plasmaether/2008/08/08/gerhard_w_bruhn_darmstadt_university_of__2008. Retrieved on 2008-08-09.
- ^ Alan Gillis (2008-08-12). "Professor Rössler Takes On The LHC". scientificblogging.com. http://www.scientificblogging.com/big_science_gambles/professor_rossler_takes_on_the_lhc. Retrieved on 2008-08-18.
- ^ Otto E. Rössler (2007-11-27). "Abraham-soltution to Schwarzhild metric implies that CERN miniblack holes pose a planetary risk" (PDF). University of Tübingen. http://www.wissensnavigator.com/documents/ottoroesslerminiblackhole.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-08-07.
- ^ Prof. Dr. Peter Mättig (2008-08-01). "official statement of the German Committee for Elementary Particle Physics (KET)" (PDF). KET (German ). http://www.ketweb.de/pressemitteilungen/20080801_PM_Der_LHC_ist_sicher.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-08-07.
- ^ CERN (2003). "CERN - official website - The safety of the LHC". CERN (fr) (de) (el) (es) (it) (jp) (no) (pl) (ru). http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html. Retrieved on 2008-08-07.
- ^ Charles Hawley (2008-08-06). "Physicists Allay Fears of the End of the World". Spiegel Online. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,570487,00.html. Retrieved on 2008-08-07.
- ^ Prof. Dr. Hermann Nicolai, Prof. Dr. Domenico Giulini (2008-08-01). "In response to the remarks of O.E. Rössler" (PDF). KET. http://environmental-impact.web.cern.ch/environmental-impact/Objects/LHCSafety/NicolaiFurtherComment-en.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-08-21.
- ^ Otto E. Rössler (2008-06-11). "A Rational and Moral and Spiritual Dilemma" (PDF). University of Tübingen. http://wissensnavigator.ch/documents/spiritualottoeroessler.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-08-07.
[edit] External links
- Otto Rössler. Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Tübingen.
- Otto Rössler: From the origin of life to the architecture of chaos. (20 October 2004). Analyse Topologique et Modélisation de Systèmes Dynamiques.
