I abandoned this blog and Earth’s destiny to its own a decade ago… since it was obvious I was as CNN once said of me, a Quixot called Sancho fighting giant winds… well beyond my humble power… So for a decade trying to flee from angst and a sense of guilt for failing to raise awareness of CERN’s dangers, i isolated myself. But a recent film acted as a short of Katarsis. So i started a book, which given the strict censorship upon my work both as an activist and a philosopher of science, for obvious reasons, I will finish on this web… It is unlike the rest of the posts a personal account, which will be posted by chapters as I write them… L§
INTRODUCTION: REALITY OVERCOMES FICTION
I saw the other day a movie that reminded me of our personal experience…
2 little known Astronomers discover a cosmological, catastrophic event that can destroy planet Earth. So after the initial shock, as serious scientists backed by real data, they decide to go public but they are taken for a ride by mass-media infotainment. This must be fun! No?!
Politicos assess the advantages and risks for its popularity of such ‘bomb-news…’
So money, media and egos get on the way of the cosmological event, plotting schemes to profit from it. New tech industries find the way to cash. Meanwhile as people might cause a public alarm, media tunes down the danger, having a laugh at the astronomers. Politicos deny all is happening. ‘Don’t look up! There is no comet on the sky! They are all for it! Till it happens and it blows up the Earth. But don’t worry, the lives that matter have been saved; the maverick robotic tech entrepeneur & the president fly away in the starship escaping to mars; while our blue origin Mother Earth in fire fades into the background.
This is a satire right? Nothing like this possibly might be happening on Earth. Sure, it is a parable of those crazy lefties with its global war-ming scare smearing our dolce fare niente neglected life…
Well no. I am serious. The story looked just like the personal experience Walter and I, 2 little known astrophysicists who alerted about a cosmological event that can destroy planet Earth lived through.
After the initial shock, as serious scientists backed by real data… we decided to go public…
Yes, keep repeating the first paragraph… minus the end… Earth has not blown up yet, which is the mantra the people who might destroy the planet keeps repeating whenever you ask if the comet is closer, ‘don’t look down’… As this cosmological event won’t come from the skies but from inside Earth, its gravitational center.
I tried to contact the people who made the movie to see if they were inspired by our tragicomic adventure. As a philosopher of science once said, ‘History repeats itself, first as a drama, then as a comedy’. After all, the Director of the film was the script-writer for Saturday Night life, writing the gigs for some of the comedians that interviewed us; at the time the drama unfolded, and we made the rounds through mass-media to alert the world. So he probably witnessed the drama and now plotted it into a comedy. As the event was real it became the cover of Sunday Times Magazine, and the most blogged global news of that cold spring sending some shivering down the spine of our confident big science establishment. All magazines on Earth felt then compelled to dismiss the danger, ‘ad hominem’ campaigns followed. But less not rush into the personal details
As it happens I was contacted the year after by its protagonist, Jen Lawrence who was interested on renting my apartment at Santa Monica, nearby her mum’s home, to hide from media attention caused by her first Oscar nomination. So I wrote to ‘Lilo’, her mum whom she tasks with the job of reading her scripts; as we had exchanged a few emails then, asking if the film was inspired by our adventure. The answer was negative, what made the whole coincidence even more telling.
Since the fact Adam Kay imagined a similar knee-jerk reaction by politicos, scientists and mass-media to our real life experience when we denounced the cosmological event of extinction, growing buried under the Earth, makes “appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity”(Einstein)… explaining better why our dysfunctional society unable to confront the growing number of lethal technologies that vastly overcome the limits of energy and information humans can handle; won’t even care to look down to the real catastrophic event that is literally nailing the coffin of mother Earth, menacing to do us all, but keep receiving massive public and private investments, sold by techno-utopians as future paradises and solutions to the evils of our world, we must eagerly love.
Indeed, there are AI terminator robots shooting without human control, displayed by the Turkish, ‘obscure little brother’ of NATO to kill those evil Muslim terrorists anonymously roaming the Libyan desert, reported only in obscure human rights blogs – since it is OK to kill the ‘bad boys’. There are AI, Algorithms of Information, the true meaning of Artificial Intelligence, one for each deconstructed thought in a growing library manipulating our minds, selecting our workers, defining our collective consciousness, as bibles did before, since it is OK to have a big brother Google, facebook and metaverse, sold as the new prophets of love and social engagement… There are… viruses going amok which we’ll never know were Nature made or man made, but suspiciously come out close to virology institutes, mutate suspiciously 30 some genetic changes all together – an impossible task as Nature does them randomly, one by one… while we go all over again through the path of vaccine speculation multiplying its stock NOT human values 100 times, sacred science to the rescue, politicos closing us down at home, internet virtual reality becoming ever more real than our watered down lives…
This is the reality of the new millennium technologies that vastly outpower our non-CHOseN weaker light atoms in its handling of energy and information we should be containing. But don’t worry, God will provide, as technology is go(l)d, and God=Gold must not even be argued. Tik-tok, tik-tok.
And then not to keep the list too long, there is the cosmological event we denounced, which is still going on, down the Earth, in its inner core.
So after a long decade of silence, since those events of extinction like the comet of the movie fast approaching mother Earth, mockery and all, have a calendar that has NOT been aborted I wrote s short book, with the minimal amount of scientific equations, to explain them.
Since unless the ‘usual suspects’, corrupted mass-media, politicos, big science and tech gurus look down to the menaces they represent, our grand-sons won’t die in bed.
I know that’s not funny. But as Jen, playing an alter ego, put it on the film (writing from memory): ‘maybe the fact Earth will be destroyed is not funny, maybe is terrifying and you should be very afraid, maybe you should cry every night going to bed’.
That sentence remind me of what the Judge on the Pacific Supreme Court said in its sentence that dismissed the case a few concerned scientists raised to oblige public administrations to interfere: ‘The destruction of Earth won’t be attributable to the American government’.
Pilate washed its hands with that surrealist sentence, and the whole process to halt the ticking bomb inside the planet came to an end. So the real process, Earth destruction, keeps going on unabated, but don’t worry as long as we don’t look down, all will be quiet in the western front.
SUMMARY:
DON’T LOOK DOWN
Introduction: Reality overcomes fiction
Chapter 0: The Fermi paradox. GNA risks.
Chapter I. The education of a philosopher of science
Chapter II. The Cosmological risks.
Chapter III. An Organic model of the Universe: its top predator species.
Chapter IV. The Odyssey: D’ Artagnan & the 3 musketeers
Chapter V. A planetary, Historic view
Chapter VI. An Economic view.
Chapter VII. The Genetic risks.
Chapter VIII. A.I. Algorithms of Information
Chapter IX. Anti-quantum paradox: Newspeaks.
Chapter X. Business as Usual: The future
Chapter XI: R=evolution. The immortal world.
Chapter 0: The Fermi paradox. GNA risks.
(to be cont’ed)
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