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May 2, 2024 | Latest Issue
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Plutonium Totality Discredits Supercollider, Montgomery Fellow

To the Editor:

Montgomery Fellow Leon Lederman had more to learn by visiting Dartmouth, because of the Plutonium Atom Totality Theorem, than Dartmouth had to learn from him.

No other particle exists without atoms existing. Even Lederman implied in his talk, when he discussed what he called "the kaleidoscope idea," that manufactured subatomic particles may not exist independent of atoms. And so, the search for what Lederman considers a "God particle" -- the Higgs particle -- by the teachings of PU Atom Totality, is an extravagant waste of time and money.

Lederman has not taken time off from his busy schedule nor dismissed his arrogance from winning the Nobel Prize to realize that spending any amount of money on the Superconducting Supercollider to look for the Higgs is like looking for the Loch Ness monster or Big Foot.

And as Lederman said -- that the road of physics, starting with the ancient Greek Thales of Miletus, had many side roads that were dead-ends, such as the Ptolemy epicycle -- Lederman's avid pursuit of the Higgs is likewise science fiction.

But Lederman seems to want to propagandize, via his book "The God Particle" and public lectures, that spending $10 billion or more on the search for the Higgs is money and time well spent.

Lederman is wrong. And for one of the rare times in my life, I can say that the U.S. politicians who killed the SSC were smarter than Nobel winning Lederman and supporters of the project.

Current science, with its cluttered-up gobbledy-gook contraptions of physics such as the Big Bang, neutron stars, black holes and worm holes, has almost a 50 percent chance of awarding a Nobel prize for fakery.

In your April 22 article on the speech, you wrote, "The history of physics and general science," Lederman said, "is a road that started in ancient Rome and has continued along to the recent discoveries of sub-atomic particles such as quarks and neutrinos."

This was a reporting error; it was ancient Greece, not ancient Rome.

But in fact, the atomic theory and science history owes much to ancient Rome. We would not know well of Democritus's Atomic Theory if it had not been for the Roman Lucretius, whose work, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is the only existing document (it was superdetermined that only one copy would survive) on the Atomic Theory.

De Rerum Natura was "published" and widespread in the year 0000. And because of the year 0000, we now have the PU theory in the year 1994. The 19 because e is approximately 19/7 and pi is approx. 22/7, where Pu has 22 subshells, 19 occupied, in a total of 7 shells. Pu, of course, is atomic number 94. This is year 94.

It had been superdetermined by our Maker, 231Pu, that by 1994 there would be quite a few authors of pseudoscience books out on the market with the word "God" in their titles. The publishers thought this word would attract higher book sales. They are all science and math pollution because "nothing new and true" is said in any of them.

Our Maker was preparing us for itself, the 231PU. It superdetermined that these books with the word God would be published because its presence would manifest itself after 1990, and especially in 1994. Sort of preparing us to roll out its red carpet.

LUDWIG PLUTONIUM