Hi Neil,

Thanks for your kind words. I see that you are among the Finalists. Congrats and let us cross the fingers for the final judgement by the FQXi expert panel of judges. I agree with your point of view that your Essay could have important implications on the BH information paradox because its distinguishing mixtures within the density matrix.

Cheers and good luck in the Contest,

Ch.

Dear Bram,

Thank you very much for your kind words. Although the deadline for the Community Rating vanished yesterday, I will be pleasured to read and comment your Essay in next days.

Cheers,

Ch.

Thank you again, Christian. I hope that judges appreciate the importance of papers proposing empirical tests, even if they remain thought experiments due to practical difficulties. Overall I found quite a variety of perspectives and levels of communication here. I do regret not participating in discussions as much as I maybe should have. Being busy and a spell of eye trouble slowed me down but I could have done more. (I did leave a detailed response to your questions at my own page.) Well I keep my fingers crossed too and also hope I get some kind of "amateur" recognition as the administrators were talking about. Yes, despite some significant study and handle on the subjects I am not a pro.

Congratulations for coming out on top!

Your essay certainly deserves kudos, Christian. I hope the expert judges agree with my assessment (and the accolades of the community) that it is indeed worthy of a prize.

Good Luck!

Jonathan

    Dear Christian,

    I congratulate you with all my heart with the first place in the first phase of the V International FQXi Essay Contest 2013!

    I wish you continued success in your research and extensive organizational work for the good of the World Science!

    Good summer holiday!

    With great respect,

    Vladimir

      4 days later

      Hi Peter,

      Thanks for your kind congrats. Have the same congrats from me also on your great result. I am going to have a deeper reading of your model of the AGN (BH) galaxy cyclic sequence after the end of my vacations, i.e. in September. I did not know Tom Ray's idea to compile a 'set of self similar sets'. I am going to read it in detail.

      Very best wishes for the final assessment also to you,

      Ch.

      Dear Jonathan,

      Thank you very much for your congrats and wishes. In the same way, I send you my best congrats and wishes for your excellent position in the final ranking of the Community Rate. Now let us cross the fingers for the final judgement by the FQXi experts panel. All the best for the final result.

      Cheers,

      Ch.

      Hi Vladimir,

      Thank you very much. Have my best congrats and wishes for your excellent position in the final ranking of the Community Rate and let us my best congrats and wishes for your excellent position in the final ranking of the Community Rate.

      Good summer holiday also to you and all the best for the final result.

      Cheers,

      Ch.

      Christian,

      I'm afraid there's some misunderstanding. I think what Peter is referring to, is my proposed experiment to catalog a set of results dependent on the orientation of an apparatus emulating a primordial initial condition. This is basically the experimental interpretation of a scale invariant solution to the time-dependent Schrodinger equation. Annihilation of particle pairs which conserves angular momentum, without producing gamma radiation, implies a primary role for wavefunction in particle creation, with no loss of information.

      Best,

      Tom

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