Cardinal Vincenzo Montefalco, Academia Pontifica, Vatican

Cardinal Vicenzo Montefalco.

Pontifical Academy, Vatican City

(Review of the above-mentioned work)

READING this review does not require any special knowledge and skills other than the ability to read.

UNDERSTANDING this review requires knowledge and skills in the following areas:

ELEMENTARY Mathematics – Fundamentals of Mathematical analysis, Vector Analysis (especially Differential Operators), Functions of a complex variable, Laplace transforms and other integral transformations, Partial differential equations, Calculus of Variations, Modern abstract algebra and abstract spaces (including Boolean algebras), Matrix Calculus, Linear vector spaces and operators, Representation mathematical models of matrices, Linear integral equations, Tensor algebra and tensor analysis, Differential Geometry, Probability theory and mathematical statistics, Special functions: Bernoulli, Jacobi, Weierstrass, Hermite, Bessel, Cauchy, Legendre and Fourier.

HIGHER Mathematics: Higher Multiplication Table, Four Higher arithmetic operations, Exponentiation and Extraction of the square root of numbers no more than 100, Exponentiation. Addition/subtraction of fractions like: Which is greater – 7/13 or 8/15 ??

Knowledge of Relativistic quantum physics, Four-dimensional Minkowski formalism, and Schwarzschild solutions is also desirable.

Credo, quia absurdum!.

I believe, because it’s absurd!

Quintus Sentimius Florence Tertullian

“– Blessed man! Give me your hand to kiss,” Fyodor Pavlovich jumped up and quickly kissed the elder’s thin hand. — Exactly, it’s nice to be offended. You said that so well that I haven’t even heard it yet. That’s right, it was I who was pleasantly offended all my life, for aesthetics, I was offended, because it’s not only pleasant, but also beautiful to be offended sometimes; that’s what you forgot, great elder: beautiful! I’ll write it down in a book! But I’ve been lying, lying, decidedly all my life, every day and hour. Truly, I am the lie and the father of lies! However, it doesn’t seem to be the father of lies, I’m the one who gets lost in the lyrics, well, at least the son of lies, and that will be enough. Only… You are my angel… You can talk about Diderot sometimes! Diderot won’t hurt, but another word will. The great elder, by the way, forgot about it, but he had been planning to do this since the third year, namely, to come here and find out urgently and ask: don’t just order Peter Alexandrovich to interrupt. I’ll ask you this: is it fair, great Father, that somewhere in the Chetyimenei there is a story about some holy wonderworker who was tortured for his faith and when his head was finally cut off, he got up, raised his head, and “kindly kissed it,” and walked for a long time, carrying her in his arms and “kindly kiss her.” Is this fair or not, honest fathers?
   “No, it’s not fair,” said the elder.
   – There is nothing like this in all Four countries. What kind of saint are you talking about, is it written like that? – Hieromonk, the librarian’s father, asked.
   “I don’t know which one.” I don’t know and I don’t know. Deceived, they said. I heard it, and do you know who told me? But Pyotr Alexandrovich Miusov, that’s what Diderot is angry about now, so he told me.”

“Kindly kiss her.”

In Gaul, during the persecution of Christians by pagan authorities, all three confessors were captured and thrown into prison. At night, Saint Dionysius celebrated the Divine Liturgy, accompanied by the Angels of God. The next morning, the martyrs were beheaded. Saint Dionysius took his head, walked with it to the temple, weeping and kissing it, and only there fell dead. The pious woman Catullus buried the remains of the martyr.

Cardinal Montefalco says about the above quotes:

Undoubtedly, the elder Karamazov is an unsympathetic personality, as F.M. Dostoevsky portrayed him. He, Karamazov, frankly enjoys the monks’ confusion. However, Hieromonk is wrong. There is a story about Saint Dionysius and Saint Denis in the Mina Readings.

But, unlike atheist atheists, it is not appropriate for us believers to turn away from even such provocative questions. On the contrary, the Lord God has given us reason to know and understand the miracles he gives us. What could be more beautiful than to comprehend God’s providence with our quick mind, free from the Devil’s inspired pride. We must not turn away, nor shamefully conceal or reject the interpretation of these miracles in front of the shameless views of atheists! We are granted to understand and combine what is not given to the godless high-minded because of their little mind, which is pathetic and unable to rise above the ordinary and thus unsanctified by God’s Grace.”

Admittedly, the Montefalco physicist is coping with his self–proclaimed mission successfully.

“So,” says the cardinal, “we accept this event as a fact that brooks no doubt or reservation. How can it be assumed that a person, and St. Denis was a man who, after his head was cut off, could get up and walk some distance, holding his head in his hands and kissing it???

This question should be divided into two:

1. Could a man without a head get up and walk?
2. Could he kiss his severed head?

If there are many explanations in the literature to answer the first question, which generally boil down to the fact that a person who was devoutly devoted to the idea of One God could have such spiritual strength that even with a severed head he could walk some distance (and we can see the Hand of God in this), then Even the most authoritative theological fathers find it difficult to give a clear answer to the second question. The seeming absurdity of such a description is too obvious: how could St. Peter kindly kiss? Denis his severed head? After all, she was in his hands! A neck stump? But touching the neck to the head cannot be called a kiss in any way!

Here we will stop quoting Cardinal Montefalco’s thought for a moment, as this question is followed by a detailed analysis of the concept of “kissing” using extensive material from the Bible and other Holy Books. And although the quotations given in the multitude are very interesting and original, we are interested, of course, in the main thing – how the thought of physicist Montefalco brilliantly cuts this Gordian knot, tied many centuries ago. And he does it by answering both of the above questions in one stroke.

There is no absurdity here,” says the cardinal, “God, in his boundless mercy, has given St. John. Denis has a virtual head!!! For a short time of his last journey at St. Peter’s. Denis got another head, not the one he was holding!

In physics, the concept of virtual particles has existed for a long time, these are particles that appear for a short time and act as a carrier of a number of interactions. The Lord, in His great mercy, has sent down the Holy Spirit. Denis took another one, the same head, and he went and kissed his severed head in the full sense of the word.

This is followed by 869 pages of analysis, both historical and anatomical, and mathematical. Having painstakingly studied 57321 documented cases of decapitation over many centuries, having conducted 1,274 exhumations and measurements, Cardinal Montefalco came to the conclusion that the well-known “Born approximation” could well be attributed to the subject of his research and the neck segment could be represented as a truncated elliptical cylinder. The theoretical curves he obtained are in good agreement with, so to speak, “experimental data.” Developing his idea, Cardinal comes to the bold and original conclusion that an elliptical cylinder can be replaced with a good degree of reliability by a circular one.

“So,” says Cardinal M., “we must now calculate and compare the two probabilities: Knowing the radius of the capture section, we need to compare the probability of accretion at St. Then we should assume that the head that St. John the Baptist used is the one that was cut off.Denis held in his hands and kissed with his virtual head. Or vice versa, a virtual head appeared instantly in place of the log house and connected for a short time with his neck, and in his hands he carried his real severed head! And, thanks to this virtual head, Saint Denis could walk and perform other reasonable actions, in particular, kiss his severed head!

The author of this review is obliged, however, to take into account that not all readers are proficient in the mathematical apparatus of quantum physics and it will be difficult for them to verify the accuracy of Cardinal Montefalco’s calculations. Therefore, the reviewer took on the pleasant and honorable mission of checking 473 pages of complex calculations himself and confirming to readers that they were done flawlessly at the highest level. Cardinal Montefalco has once again proved that he is a serious scientist who perfectly understands the powerful mathematical apparatus of modern physics. Vacuum polarization and the Heisenberg matrix description of quantum mechanics, tensor calculus, quarks, gluons, Feynman diagrams, Finsler spaces – all this is described and practically used by Cardinal Montefalco with the grace and brilliance of a highly qualified professional. The reviewer feels obliged to mention, however, that such calculations are rarely completely error-free (except, perhaps, by computer). Cardinal Montefalco did not escape such a small inaccuracy either. On page 345, he mistakenly wrote instead of the area of the cut of the neck of St.Deni n R 2 — 2 n R, i.e. the circumference of the indicated neck, but, as further verification showed, this did not affect the accuracy of the result. I believe the reader is looking forward to the results of the calculations, and therefore I hasten to inform you that the results are downright stunning! It turned out that the first and second probabilities differ from each other in order by 10.54 !!! That is, the probability of a virtual head appearing on Saint Denis’s neck for a short time is exactly that many orders of magnitude greater than the virtual growth of his own head to his own neck and the appearance of a virtual head in his hands!! And this probability is 7.654321 x 10.27 !!! But, a reader experienced in mathematics and probability theory will say, even this probability is unimaginably small – 10-27! And here Cardinal Montefalco demonstrates all the brilliance of his creative thought. He could, of course, refer to a platitude like: God can do anything! Or, God gave, God took (a phrase, by the way, that clearly prophetically preceded the emergence of the idea of virtuality in general). But no!

(*In a private conversation with the reviewer, Cardinal Montefalco asked me to avoid the words “demonstration”, “demonstrates”, etc. in my review, since they contain the word “demon”, which does not fit in with either Cardinal Montefalco’s dignity or the godliness of his work)

A vacuum is a “miracle generator”, in which, by the will of God, everything exists. Of course, it is detected with varying degrees of probability. Let’s not forget, however, that time slows down so much near a “black hole” that it actually stops “flowing” and in such a curved space-time continuum, phenomena and entities that are absolutely “incredible” for us living in an almost non-curved space may appear in our real time. At a distance slightly larger than the Schwarzschild radius, i.e., at Rv = 1.0000000000000000000000001, such a slow passage of time is created that the appearance in a vacuum of a virtual object exactly matching the head of Saint Denis becomes not just a probable, but a mandatory phenomenon in thousandths of a second. However, this appearance, like all virtual particles and phenomena, cannot last long and depends on many factors.For example, movement is the passage of a black hole past Paris. A disaster? No, everything was falling freely in her powerful field, including the Earth and the entire Solar system. The movement of the axe and the severed head itself must also be taken into account. A very massive particle was flying past the Earth at that moment, whose mass, due to its ultrarelativistic velocity, was close to the mass of a black hole for that particle. Adding up its velocity with the velocity of the head of Saint Denis, which was cut off at the same moment, according to Einstein’s formulas, we get such a mutual velocity of these two bodies that both the particle and the head turned into two black holes in relation to each other! Time has stopped for these objects, and any, the most improbable event, or rather, almost incredible, has acquired a probability of incarnation equal to P = 1! That is, 100% probable! At this moment, the greatest probability was realized – Saint Denis had a new virtual head! After that, it was not difficult for him to get up, pick up his severed head and “kindly kiss it” to walk to the crash site, when the probability of a virtual head appearing again dropped to a vanishingly small value. This is what the amazed witnesses observed, but, not knowing modern physics, they did not understand why such a miracle happened!

Here, the reviewer feels obliged to mention that Cardinal Montefalco’s real hypothesis has not yet received full approval in the scientific world. This is understandable, the most important condition for accepting this (as, indeed, any other scientific hypothesis) is its experimental confirmation! Verification requires at least two conditions: the presence of ultrarelativistically accelerated particles and a severed head. Stanford University’s most powerful state–of-the-art supercollider accelerator could be placed at Cardinal Montefalco’s disposal to carry out this

Experimentum Crucis!

The problem, however, arose in a completely unexpected place – where to get a severed head and whose head should it be?

Cardinal Montefalco, as a true great scientist who knows, of course, that “science requires sacrifices,” agreed to sacrifice his own for a while, being confident in his hypothesis and knowing that the Lord, in mercy to his servant, would not bypass him and would give him, for a while (until death from old age), the said virtual head! But the cardinal’s conclave, which met in the Vatican to discuss the experiment, overwhelmingly voted (73 against 72!!!) I rejected the idea that Cardinal Montefalco, as the author of the hypothesis, should become a virtual analogue of Saint Denis! In vain, the cardinal persuaded his colleagues that he was ready to sacrifice his head for the glory of God and then be content with a virtual one. (he even cried with emotion, imagining himself as a living (for a time) incarnation of the righteous Saint Denis!)

After learning about the cardinal’s tears, the famous poet and martyr Vladimir Vladimirovich Ham–Yakovsky wrote a touching poem about Montefalco:

If you put it in a museum
The weeping Cardinal,

I’d spend the whole day at the museum

The mouths stuck out:

Of course, the Earth has never seen such a thing!

But the cardinals’ decision was unequivocal: NO! One of the most important arguments put forward by Cardinal Montefalco’s students and associates was as follows: If Cardinal Montefalco becomes the test subject of the correctness of the hypothesis, then how will he be able to direct the entire course of the experiment before and, most importantly, after the removal of the head!? So the matter of the experimental verification of the Cardinal’s hypothesis has been stuck at this dead end and has not moved from it to this day!

There were other obstacles: some physicists not only did not accept Cardinal’s hypothesis, but also subjected it to the harshest criticism. This also created insurmountable obstacles to the experiment, so in his responses to his opponents, Cardinal Montefalco expressed deep and understandable gratitude to his critics, especially the most radical and irreconcilable of them.

The reviewer considers it necessary to mention only two of the most significant opponents of Cardinal Montefalco’s idea.: These are Professor Boryara and the famous Russian physicist Professor F.I. Shershelyafamov.

The objections of the great Papuan physicist Boryara boiled down to the following: time should not have slowed down to zero, but rather accelerated by many orders of magnitude, and then any vanishingly small probability could have been realized with P = 1! By means of brilliant mathematical calculations, Boryara proved that if the time near the place of execution of Saint Denis was accelerated by 10 to 30 times, then the event of the appearance of the Saint’s virtual head becomes almost equal to one, that is, the probability turns into a mandatory reality!

(By extracting the square root of the space-time discountinum equation he obtained, Boryara obtained two probabilities equal to one: One with a plus, the other with a minus, that is, in theory, Saint Denis could have TWO virtual heads at once, one purely positive, the other purely negative! But Boryar, applying Levi–Civita normalization, simply equated the negative head to zero, because such a wonderful person as Saint Denis could not have a head, but even a negative thought in it!. Cardinal Montefalco’s sanctity is completely beyond doubt, so Boryara’s bold mathematical trick of renormalization followed by equating the minus head to zero was recognized by all physicists and mathematicians of the world!)

Boryara also explains under what condition this could happen, that is, such a significant local acceleration of time: An ultrarelativistic antiparticle should have flown past the Earth, or rather, Paris, or even more precisely, past the head of Saint Denis. Applying Richard Feynman’s hypothesis about the positron as an electron moving in time “backwards” to our time course, such an ultrafast positron could fully realize the described picture, speeding up the time near the execution site by the required 10 to 30 times!

The Russian physicist, Nobel Prize Winner in Physics, Fyodor Ivanovich Shershelyafamov, objecting to both Cardinal Montefalco and Professor Boryara, pointed out that there was no need for all these assumptions at all! Applying the theory of Soft Body Physics developed by him and his friend and colleague, the German physicist Franz Frauensucher, he showed that it is enough for a certain singularity to appear near the place of execution of Saint Denis, a special region of space-time – the embryo of the future Big Bang, which changes entropy so that the probability of Saint Denis having a virtual head is realized with = 1 !!! And then no ultrarelativistic antiparticle particles will be required!

The reviewer considers it his duty to note once again the impeccable scientific honesty and truly Christian humility of Cardinal Montefalco. Meeting at the International Congress on Soft Body Physics, held in Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, he approached the aforementioned two physicists and embraced them both with tears in his eyes, thanking them for their

uncompromising and unflattering criticism of his work (as already mentioned, which nullified all attempts at experimental verification of the aforementioned hypothesis)! The reviewer can only bow his head to the deep spirituality of Cardinal Montefalco, who showed the whole world, not in words, but in deeds, how seriously and sincerely he observes the well-known commandment of the Son of God, Jesus Christ: Love your enemy as yourself. And was Fyodor Ivanovich really Montefalco’s enemy, criticizing his idea?! Moreover, His Eminence, Monsignor Montefalco, addressing Fyodor Ivanovich Shershelyafamov, publicly asked the latter for forgiveness for the years-old critical attacks on the first article by Shershelyafamov and for the accusation, unfair, according to the same Montefalco, that, allegedly, Fyodor Ivanovich “escorted a whole brothel of harlots of Babylon to the temple of pure science.” The introduction of singularities into Montefalco’s hypothesis completely eliminated the possibility of experimental verification. The fact is that all the singularities known and studied by terrestrial physicists “behave” completely unpredictably and appear on Earth wherever they please! So there was no question of any pre-programmed experimental verification of the effect of singularities on a severed head!

Of course, F.I. Shershelyafamov granted the cardinal the forgiveness he sought immediately and with joy!

Cardinal Montefalco also cordially addressed the “host” of the congress, Professor Boryara, a Papuan physicist.

He also contributed to the destruction of the very foundation of the alleged experiment with the virtual head of the cardinal. And not only with his theoretical work!

Half a year before the congress, Professor Boryara, with a group of prominent Papuan physicists, visited the United States and, in particular, the famous Stanford super accelerator – supercollider. Boryara was even invited to participate in the most important experiment conducted at the accelerator at that time, the splitting of gluons by super–fast quarks. The famous guest was given the honor to turn a certain knob that turns on the super accelerator in the super collider mode.

It is clear that this handle, made of brass and covered with a thick layer of fake (samovar) gold,was not connected to any chain! It was simply intended specifically for distinguished guests, politicians, President Clinton – Honorary Doctor Gonorrhea Causa, famous rock singers or famous modernist artists. This procedure of symbolically turning a golden pen (among cynical physicists who knew its “secret”) was called “gild the pen!”. But, of course, this secret was known only to the employees of the accelerator who were privy to the technical details. For everyone else, it was a solemn and exciting ritual, comparable in emotional power only to receiving the Nobel Prize. (However, without the accompanying receipt!!!)

So, Boryara approached this pen and, with a smile captured in thousands of photographs, turned it around, saying something in Papuan. Later it turned out that he uttered a historically significant phrase:

“A small turn of a pen is a huge revolution in our knowledge of the world!”

The events that followed proved Boryara’s exceptional foresight.

Turning the knob, Boryara modestly moved away from the console, leaving the specialists to continue their work on accelerating the superparticles. But the accelerator was “silent”! All attempts by the workers to run it in super-mode, or at least in normal acceleration mode, have led to nothing. The accelerator has stopped accelerating the previously accelerated particles introduced into it! He did only one thing – he slowed them down!

No repairs, recharging, renormalization, or even switching the supply voltage from plus to minus helped! From that time on, the accelerator regularly slowed down all the particles offered to it for acceleration. The most powerful accelerator on Earth has turned into the most powerful retarder!

Physics has lost the most important tool for its fundamental research! (Later, another very unpleasant feature of the former accelerator became clear: it slowed down the thinking of the specialists working on it once and for all!)

Cardinal Montefalco remained with the most powerful instrument – his head, and his own!!! Not virtual!

Engineers have checked this ill-fated pseudo-gold pen hundreds of times, it really was not connected to any accelerator circuit. There was just an empty box of the simplest switch for a bed warmer, not connected to ANYTHING! They took it because when they turned it, it made a ringing click, which was very much liked by the famous idiots who turned the handle and ignorantly thought that they really turned on something!! But it was she, or rather her turn, who caused such devastating consequences for the pride of the world of experimental physics!

It was this crucial event, caused by Professor Boryarei, that Cardinal Montefalco appreciated so highly and warmly.

At a top–secret meeting of the world’s leading experimental physicists in the deepest military bunker in the Alamogordo desert, New Mexico, (located to disguise itself just under the remains of the charred tower of the first atomic explosion), it was decided:

Under no circumstances should Professor Boryara be allowed near any operating physical device, including ampere-volt-ohmmeters in all school physics classrooms, as well as levers of the first and second kind: Go know,” said the Chief Physicist of Los Alamos, “maybe he will take and turn the globe over, as he threatened Make an Archimedes. And Boryara, though not Archimedes, is also an Archivist, Archivist, and arch-dangerous!

Professor Boryara quickly realized how unfairly he had been ostracized by physicists all over the world and, in irritation, wrote the book “The Involution of Physics”, in which, in retaliation for the insult, he proved with numbers in his hands that all the physicists of the world do not understand at least half of the laws of physics they use! This book has sold millions of copies and is very popular with high school students and students of all natural science universities, because it gives curious young men and women a great opportunity to ask their teachers and associate professors various tricky, but flawlessly reasoned, questions that lecturers cannot answer! Thus, they are ridiculed as complete ignoramuses in physics, the courses of which they thoughtlessly undertook to read, not really understanding what they were suggesting to their more literate students!

The only physicist who continued to cordially love and honor Boryara was, of course, Cardinal Montefalco, who often invited Boryara to Rome, which the latter willingly used. Because he loved Italy, its language, history and culture!

That was the end of Cardinal Montefalco’s article “On virtual phenomena in theology.”

But the reviewer considers it his sacred duty to inform curious theologians, believers, and even individual non-believers that Cardinal Montefalco has made another outstanding discovery regarding the “immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary.”

But about that – another time!

22 VI 2009