The Case of M. S. El Naschie

November 9, 2008

Posted by John Baez

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Zoran Škoda recently brought our attention to the case of M. S. El Naschie.

El Naschie is editor in chief of the journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals. This journal is published by Elsevier, one of the biggest players in the science publishing business.

But here’s where things get interesting: this journal also lists 322 papers with El Naschie as an author!

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For example, El Naschie has five sole-authored papers in the most recent issue, which will appear in December. Here they are:

M.S. El Naschie, Fuzzy multi-instanton knots in the fabric of space–time and Dirac’s vacuum fluctuation, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Volume 38, Issue 5, December 2008, Pages 1260-1268.
M.S. El Naschie, An energy balance Eigenvalue equation for determining super strings dimensional hierarchy and coupling constants, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Volume 38, Issue 5, December 2008, Pages 1283-1285.
M.S. El Naschie, Anomalies free E-infinity from von Neumann’s continuous geometry Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Volume 38, Issue 5, December 2008, Pages 1318-1322.
M.S. El Naschie, Eliminating gauge anomalies via a “point-less” fractal Yang–Mills theory, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Volume 38, Issue 5, December 2008, Pages 1332-1335.
M.S. El Naschie, Fuzzy knot theory interpretation of Yang–Mills instantons and Witten’s 5-Brane model, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Volume 38, Issue 5, December 2008, Pages 1349-1354.

Together with the rate at which El Naschie is publishing these papers in his own journal, the bizarre blend of fashionable buzzwords in their titles instantly made me suspicious. To see if my suspicions were correct, I examined some.

Let’s look at just one: ‘Anomalies free E-infinity from von Neumann’s continuous geometry’.

This paper consists of undisciplined numerology larded with impressive buzzwords. It starts with a reference to von Neumann’s continuous geometries and the work of Alain Connes, but it makes no use of these ideas. ‘E-infinity’ is apparently the name of Naschie’s ‘theory’, but he doesn’t describe this theory. In short, the title and abstract have little to do with the actual content of the paper.

As for the content, let me quote a bit, so you can see for yourself:

It may be a rather well known fact, at least for all round educated mathematicians, that there are 17 and only 17 distinct types of wallpaper patterns in terms of their symmetry groups. Many of these patterns were known and used by the Arabs in Spain to decorate their palaces, for example the world famous Alhambra in Spain [9,10]. Less well known however is the fact that there are 5 Dirichlet domains corresponding to these 17 groups and that there are exactly 17 two and three Stein spaces with a total sum of dimensions found by the Author to be exactly equal to [14]:

$5 {\tilde{α}}_{0} + 1 = (5) (137) + 1 = 685 + 1 = 686$

where ${\tilde{α}}_{0}$ is the integer value of the inverse of the fine structure constant of electromagnetism. In Fig. 1 we show examples of wallpaper patterns corresponding to the said 17 groups while in Fig. 2 we show the corresponding Dirichlet domain [10].

It is well known that without symmetry groups, in particular SU(3), SU(2) and U(1) Lie groups, we could not formulate a rational standard model for particle physics, but what could be the connection between the wallpaper groups and high energy physics? Part of the answer to this question has already been given implicitly in the identity [11]

$\sum_{1}^{17} Stein = (4 {\tilde{α}}_{0}) + 1 = 685 + 1$

To follow this matter deeper still, we have to recall some topological and mathematical facts. First, the Nash Euclidean embedding of a two dimensional manifold, i.e. an area is given for $n = 2$ by [4]

$DE = \frac{n}{2} (3 n + 11) = ((3) (2) + 11) = 17$

Next we think about each area as being a Bi-vector with 17 dimensions attached to them. However this two dimensional tiling should be thought of more as a Penrose fractal tiling which we can divide again into smaller areas with again 17 dimensions attached to them and so on. The remarkable thing is that for two such fractal iterations, one finds

$(2) (2) (17) = (2) (34) = 68 = ({\tilde{α}}_{0} / 2) - 1 / 2 = 1 / 2 ({\tilde{α}}_{0} = 1) .$

In fact (68)(8) = 544 is short of the four dimensions of classical spacetime to give us the total sum of exceptional Lie symmetry groups hierarchy [11,12].

To me it’s clear that this is total baloney. Let me explain a bit:

I know there are 17 wallpaper groups, and that many of patterns with these symmetry groups appear in the Alhambra. In fact last summer I went to the Alhambra and checked this myself! But I don’t know if there are “exactly 17 two and three Stein spaces’” with total sum of dimensions equal to 686 — I know what a Stein space is, but I don’t know what “two and three Stein spaces” are, or if that even makes sense. The reference he gives here is to one of his own papers in the same journal, ‘Kac–Moody exceptional E12 from simplictic tiling’. I know that ‘simplictic’ is not a word.

More importantly, even if some calculation leads to the number 686, he gives no indication of why it might be interesting that

$686 = 5 \times 137 + 1$

where $137$ is the nearest integer to the reciprocal of the fine structure constant (which is actually closer to 137.035999).

Instead of attempting to explain this numerical coincidence, he moves on. First he claims that

$686 = 4 \times 137 + 1$

but let us hope this is a typo.

Then he hints that the Nash embedding theorem says that any $n$ -dimensional Riemannian manifold can be embedded in a Euclidean space of dimension

$\frac{n}{2} (3 n + 11)$

The Nash embedding theorem does give a bound of roughly this sort, but I don’t know if this particular formula is correct. Regardless of that, he then applies the formula to the case of a surface ( $n = 2$ ) and gets the number $17$ . I have no reason to believe that $17$ is the optimal bound in this special case, or of any special significance, but anyway: he seems to be claiming the reappearance of the number $17$ is important here — but without saying how.

Then he really goes wild:

Next we think about each area as being a Bi-vector with 17 dimensions attached to them. However this two dimensional tiling should be thought of more as a Penrose fractal tiling which we can divide again into smaller areas with again 17 dimensions attached to them and so on.

This is vague, dreamlike imagery. A bivector is a mathematical structure related to area, but imagining a 2d surface as a bivector with “17 dimensions attached to it” means nothing, nor does the idea of iterating this to get a “Penrose fractal tiling”.

He then suggests quitting at the second stage of this iteration and getting

$2 \times 2 \times 17 = 68$

of something — but it’s not clear what, nor why the number $2 \times 2 \times 17$ should show up.

But never mind! He then notes that 68 is $1 / 2 (137 - 1)$ , where again 137 is a rough approximation to the reciprocal of the fine structure constant. Of course, can always find some formula linking any two numbers, and the possible meaning of this formula linking the numbers 137 and 68 is not discussed.

He then takes the number 68, multiplies it by 8 for some undisclosed reason, and getting 544, which is “four short” of some other number: the “total sum of exceptional Lie symmetry groups hierarchy”, whatever that means. Presumably he calculated some number for each of the 5 exceptional Lie groups, added them up, and got 548: he cites two of his own papers published in the same journal for this calculation! Coming up with a number “four short” of another number might not seen very impressive, but he ‘saves the day’ by pointing out that 4 is the number of dimensions of spacetime. And if it were 3 short, doubtless that would be the number of dimensions of space.

In short: this paper is even less sophisticated than what the Bogdanoff brothers wrote. And all the other papers I’ve read by El Naschie are of a similar quality.

Now, I get crud like this in my email every day. I delete it without comment. What makes this case different is that El Naschie gets to publish these papers in a superficially respectable journal that he actually edits.

The fact that Elsevier would let Naschie edit this journal and publish large numbers of papers like this in it shows that their system for monitoring the quality of their journals is broken.

The fact that this journal costs $4520 per year would be hilarious, except that libraries are actually buying it — at a reduced rate, bundled in with other Elsevier journals, but still!

This case raises plenty of other questions:

Why did Elsevier let El Naschie become the editor in chief of this journal?
Who is El Naschie? What’s his connection with getCited?
Why does he have such adoring fans? -people who say things like:

“Our Chinese Scientists on Nonlinear Dynamics are in infinite love and admiration to both the man and his science. El Naschie actually built a bridge between high-energy particle physics on the one side and nonlinear dynamics, complex theory, chaos, and fractals on the other, and he benefits tremendously from cross-fertilization. Treading the path of El Naschie, we gather together to celebrate the century’s greatest scientist after Newton and Einstein, and share his greatest achievement.”
Why is he also an editor for International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation, and why does this journal flaunt its high ‘impact factor’?

If you want a different angle on Naschie’s ideas, try his video on Youtube.

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Having come here from Zoran Skoda’s comments in the other thread, and having had a brush with some of El-Naschie’s, erm, “theories”, albeit second-hand and perhaps with me misunderstanding a great man, I’m almost relieved to see that what you quoted doesn’t involve the golden ratio. I seem to recall (being told that) some combination of powers of the GR is close to 26, and hence evidence that 26-dimensional physical theories need some fractal correction.

Then there’s also something about how the Banach-Tarski paradox might be relevant to quantum cosmology. (Again, I am going from memory here, so perhaps I’m traducing the insight of the original, but somehow I think not…)

Posted by: yemon choi on November 9, 2008 5:32 AM | Permalink

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Well, 26 = ϕ⁶ + ϕ⁴ + ϕ⁰ + ϕ^-4 + ϕ^-6, and in general any integer can be written as a sum of powers of ϕ. But this representation doesn’t even seem particularly nice. I could at least see where the numerologist was coming from if, say, there were physical theories calling for 29 dimensions, since ϕ⁷ = 29.03444176 is very close to 29. (In fact, all integer powers of ϕ are close to integers; this is because (ϕ)ⁿ + (-ϕ)^-n is the nth Lucas number.)

A question that occurs to me: I think anybody with any mathematical training would agree that a dimension being near a power of ϕ is not something worth investigating. How do we know which coincidences are worth looking at and which are not?

Posted by: Michael Lugo on November 11, 2008 3:10 PM | Permalink

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Hmm, thanks for the reminder re Z[ϕ]. I seem to recall the speaker not producing 26 on the nose (which would have prompted me to think a bit more about algebraic numbers and combinations thereof).

The point about the Lucas numbers is cute, it rings a bell somewhere at the back of the mind.

I think anybody with any mathematical training would agree that a dimension being near a power of ϕ is not something worth investigating. How do we know which coincidences are worth looking at and which are not?

Good question, and the best I can do is shrug and give a non-answer: “it depends”. Perhaps it’s also to do with structure, and what I saw described (in the context of proving inequalities) “stress testing” – so for instance, which other algebraic numbers have the properties you describe above? Is ϕ extremal in any sense? Is this connected to its extremal behaviour as a continued fraction? These are all semi-rhetorical questions, but that’s how I personally would react. Whereas trying to link ϕ to -163, say, wouldn’t seem natural to me, though I wouldn’t rule it out…

Off the top of my head: it may also have something to do with how much of the objects you seek to link is being used. F’rinstance, down thread I see that there is an alleged link between the two-slit experiment, Cantor sets, and K3 manifolds. Now I’d hope that someone with mathematical training would go: in this story, what is so special about K3? why should a homological/Hodge condition link up to the construction of certain Hausdorf dimensions? Could we replace these objects by others in the relevant categories, and still get a pretty coincidence of numbers?

Posted by: yemon choi on November 11, 2008 8:29 PM | Permalink

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Having done some digging amongst the links that John provided, I actually found one of el Naschie’s “notes” gives an actual piece of motivation/context for the fetishization of $φ$ which seems common to the later, erm, work.

The key reference, apaprently, is

MR0831202 (87j:60027)
D. R. Mauldin, S. C. Williams
Random recursive constructions: asymptotic geometric and topological properties.
Trans AMS 295:1 (1986) 325–346

which I thought might interest Michael and some others.

According to el Naschie, one of the results of this paper is that a random Cantor set has Hausdorff dimension equal to $φ$ , but he doesn’t give a specific reference. Leaving aside words like “almost surely”, to be charitable, I’ve had a quick look through the paper to find the relevant result. The closest I can find is Example 4.4, where in the middle of several other examples of Cantor/Sierpinski type sets, it is shown that a particular stochastic construction will indeed produce a Cantor subset of $[0,1]$ whose Hausdorff dimension is $\sqrt{5} - 2$ \/. It should be noted that Examples 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 have a.s. Hausdorff dimensions $1 / 2$ , $(\sqrt{17} - 3) / 2$ , and $\sqrt{2} - 1$ , but such numbers are of course much less significant than the Mighty Golden Ratio. The authors themselves don’t mention it by name, perhaps not being inspired by the same vision as el Naschie.

Of course, these constructions are being done within an ambient Euclidean space, so I fail (as would Mauldin and Williams, I suspect) to see how space-time can be fit into this framework. Well, there’s always the Procrustean approach, I guess.

But yay! Out of this thread, I’ve actually found some interesting mathematics to read.

Posted by: yemon choi on November 12, 2008 9:14 AM | Permalink

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John,

if you are not well educated enough to understand this man’s breakthroughs maybe you should contact some clever guys that have been in contact with him:

http://www.el-naschie.net/bilder/image/prof-el-naschie-nobel-laurates-gross-thooft-wilcezk.jpg

Posted by: Robert on November 9, 2008 8:28 AM | Permalink

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Even more impressive is this press release (?) that El Naschie put on his website:

http://www.dailygrail.com/node/5770

which looks like something straight out of the script for What the Bleep Do We Know!?. Enjoy.

Posted by: Todd Trimble on November 9, 2008 12:24 PM | Permalink

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Could you show me where this stuff appears on El Naschie’s website, Todd?

The website you linked to is typical eclectic crackpot blather — there’s plenty of that on the web. It’s amusing in small doses. But I’m more concerned about Elsevier running a ‘high impact factor’ journal where the editor gets to publish his own papers without any external check on their quality — and university libraries are forced to buy it due to ‘journal bundling’. If the system has really become this corrupt, it’s got to be fixed.

Posted by: John Baez on November 9, 2008 4:14 PM | Permalink

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It’s linked from his website (click on news/press). So technically it’s not on his website, but it’s linked from his website presumably with his approval, which is just as bad.

Posted by: Todd Trimble on November 9, 2008 9:56 PM | Permalink

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This site is supposed to be dealing with mathematics, physics and philosophy. I haven’t seen much of any of these in the comments about El Naschie. Ironically, I know about John Baez and his work from Mohamed El Naschie. Mohamed always says he is a very imaginative mathematical physicist as opposed to theoretical physicist. Mohamed has always described himself as a theoretical physicist who just happens to believe that set theory in connection with group theory will hold the final answer for quantum gravity and he claims to have seen many promising ideas from Baez’ work. I think that is the main difference between El Naschie and others, if I may say so. Mohamed tries to embrace and unify. The others are continuously segregating and discriminating. What they don’t understand is by definition wrong. What they don’t know about is by definition not needed. What they are not familiar with is inessential. In this sense I am addressing John Baez for whom I still have a great deal of respect. You see John the opposite of truth is yet a deeper truth. This is the depth implicit in Mohamed El Naschie’s use of non conventional mathematics and that is why he is right. By contrast the opposite of a fallacy will always be the truth and therefore all these fallacious arguments used against El Naschie will fail. The main idea here is not mine. It is due to Niels Bohr. He told the young Heisenberg what I have just said albeit in another context.
The sad thing about what you have written and the way you have written is that it has nothing to do with science. This is envy from the fact that he is independent and that he is an Editor in Chief of a journal which he founded two decades ago when no one believed that nonlinear sciences, chaos and fractals are anything more than a fashionable mathematical craze that will last for a short while. Imaginative scientists always complain about old boy’s networks, cliques and oppressive establishments. However, when someone who got the opportunity and the capability to circumvent those hindrances presents things in new and unusual ways, then you suddenly try to get at him and help the establishment to destroy him. No matter how long I live, I will never understand this folly and this dark side of the human soul. I pray to God that I will be spared experiencing how it must be to be full of such jealousy.

Yours sincerely,
B. Cherikov

Posted by: Cherikov on November 11, 2008 9:15 PM | Permalink

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I am certainly no expert, but it seems to me that every scientist or mathematician, indeed any serious thinker, must maintain a balance between their intuitions and pattern finding and their capacity to justify and examine their intuitions with logic. Thinking through the connotations of your possible insights and exposing your own thought process is vital if you are to truly produce a new way of solving real world problems, or even creating a field that produces answers to questions.
“Reductionism” is not the enemy, as everyone looks at their own form of big picture, and so called interdisciplinary thinkers merely create new disciplines that overlap the existing ones. Instead I would say that the flaw that people often complain about is really lack of self-criticism, and the belief that your field subsumes all other insights.
To unify is noble, but the trick is to do it without relying simply on the structural ambiguities of the medium in which you are presenting them; in the dark, everyone looks the same!
I do not believe that the core of the criticism is jealousy, but rather it is probably based on a similar attitude to my own, and it is better I think to assume some kernel of good motive in criticism, and so find a way to benefit from it.

Posted by: Josh W on November 11, 2008 11:14 PM | Permalink

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Todd, that’s not from What the …. It’s clearly lifted from Timecube.

Posted by: John Armstrong on November 9, 2008 5:53 PM | Permalink

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Well… whatever. Somehow I thought “daily grail” evoked more of the spirit of Ramtha, but perhaps you have a keener palate for this stuff than I!

Posted by: Todd Trimble on November 9, 2008 9:43 PM | Permalink

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What correlation is there between the amount of bold used on a web page and the amount of useful content contained therein?

Posted by: Michael Lugo on November 11, 2008 3:11 PM | Permalink

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Not as strong a negative correlation as between useful content and use of the <flash> tag.

Posted by: John Armstrong on November 11, 2008 3:42 PM | Permalink

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Dear colleague, I did contact one of the Nobel laureates from the picture and he did (without me mentioning word “number trickery” or the like) say that El Naschie is “unable to grasp the difference between real science and number trickery” and “not so much of a menace because he is basically just being ignored”. Making picture with somebody and actually making science with somebody
are rather different. Some Nobel laureates are quite tolerant. Having pictures, friends, money, false affilations, editorships and so on, are external features, and science and reasoning are internal feature of reason and not wealth and influence.

I did get a rather official confirmation that his affiliation at Goethe University is false at present time. It looks like they might prosecute him for this.

Posted by: Zoran Skoda on November 10, 2008 9:06 PM | Permalink

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Zoran said: “Making picture with somebody and actually making science with somebody are rather different. Some Nobel laureates are quite tolerant.”

I agree with this. I took a class taught by Wilczek (a few years before he won the Nobel) and I have to say that he generally struck me as a nice guy, and not the sort of person that would say “f*** you, I don’t want to be in the same room as this crackpot!” (These are the impressions of a freshman in college who slept through a lot of the lectures because they were early in the morning, though.)

Posted by: Michael Lugo on November 11, 2008 3:14 PM | Permalink

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Apparently, he has also “made science” with some reputable researchers like Amr Elnashai. Could it be that El Naschie was at one point (probably still is) a reasonable expert in one area of science (engineering) but turned into a crackpot in another area (physics)?

Posted by: Anon on November 13, 2008 9:25 AM | Permalink

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Amr Elhashai is his brother.

Posted by: PhilG on November 13, 2008 12:37 PM | Permalink

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It raises more questions than that: what are we going to do about it?

Posted by: James Cranch on November 9, 2008 11:25 AM | Permalink

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James wrote:

It raises more questions than that: what are we going to do about it?

Indeed! I think the first step is to find out what’s going on and let people know about it.

If the situation is as bad as it looks, once enough people know about it Elsevier will need to fix it. They engage in tough negotiations with university libraries over prices of their journal bundles. And they support PRISM, which lobbies against government-mandated open access, saying they “risk undermining the very fabric of the system of independent, formal peer-reviewed publication.”

Imagine how these negotiations and policy debates will go if it becomes apparent that one of their journals is corrupt and riddled with pseudoscientific numerology!

Posted by: John Baez on November 9, 2008 4:44 PM | Permalink

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The point that strikes me, that I haven’t seen mentioned yet, is that Chaos, Solitons and Fractals does appear to have other staff listed in addition to El Naschie. Even if it’s just a sinecure position, if I was one of them I’d be extremely uncomfortable having my name associated with a journal containing such a high proportion of such “work”. If they do actually end up doing actual work like reviewing/collating reviews/etc for the journal then I’d definitely think there were other places I could put my name (with the obvious irony I’m being pseudonymous in n-Category comments) rather than a journal like that.

I doubt we’ll ever find out, but did Elsevier ever receive any worries or complaints from anyone else on this journal and how did they respond?

Posted by: bane on November 11, 2008 9:02 AM | Permalink

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A rather famous mathematician, upon reading this blog entry, has promised to contact Elsevier and pressure them to do something about this situation. We’ll see what happens (if anything).

Posted by: John Baez on November 11, 2008 5:06 PM | Permalink

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I can think of one, rather juvenile, way to raise awareness of the problem: see if Chaos, Solitons and Fractals will publish an article on the applications of E-infinity theory to the topological field theory of the initial singularity of spacetime. Certainly, the formulation of quantum vacuum fluctuations in terms of Cantor sets should be relevant to categorifying the KMS condition, thereby making the central charge of the extended Distler-Lisi superalgebra a well-defined quantity at the Planck scale. While such an approach is speculative in the extreme, it could potentially revolutionize the transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity.

Posted by: Blake Stacey on November 10, 2008 6:09 AM | Permalink

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What a great idea, Blake! Why didn’t I think of doing this before blogging about the situation? It’s probably too late now. It would have been hilarious — the reverse Sokal hoax the world has been waiting for. And it would have been the best way to blow open this case.

Posted by: John Baez on November 10, 2008 5:20 PM | Permalink

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Good lord, did anybody seen the now deleted wikipedia page on this guy?

From the deleted article:

He is advisor of the Egyptian Ministry for Science and Technology (High Energy Physics and Nanotechnology). He is Honorary Professor in Shanghai`s Jiao Tong University as well as the Donghua University in the People`Republic of China.

He is also the principal advisor of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KACST - Riyadh) since many years.

Posted by: CSTAR on November 9, 2008 7:10 PM | Permalink

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As of today the deleted Wikipedia article on Mohamed El Naschie can still be seen in the Google cache.

It will eventually go away. So, for the sake of posterity, here it is:

Mohamed El Naschie

Mohamed El Naschie is a theoretical physicist and engineer born 1943 in Cairo, Egypt. [1] Beginning with his 1994 paper “Is Quantum Space a Random Cantor Set with a Golden Mean Dimension at the Core?”[2] E-infinity space-time theory El Naschie has been a central figure in the field of fractal cosmology.

Education

He received his entire education in West Germany (Hamburg and Hannover ) and later on in England where he obtained his Ph.D. from the University College, London - UK. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics, England and a distinguished Fellow of the Physics Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt. He is a visiting Professor in numerous Universities including University of Cairo, University of Alexandria (Dept. of Physics), Egypt.

He is advisor of the Egyptian Ministry for Science and Technology (High Energy Physics and Nanotechnology). He is Honorary Professor in Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University as well as the Donghua University in the People`Republic of China.

He is also the principal advisor of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KACST - Riyadh) since many years.

Professor El Naschie was trained initially as an engineer and worked extensively in Structural Engineering and Applied Mechanics. After becoming full Professor of Engineering he followed his inclination towards theoretical subjects and moved first towards Applied Mathematics and later on Nuclear and High Energy Physics. His research interests include: Stability, Bifurcation. Atomic-engineering, Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos, Fractals, High Energy Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics and E-infinity theory. He is editor-in-chief and associate editor of numerous learned journals.

References

1. http://www.el-naschie.net/el-naschie-physicist.asp?site=256&lang=

2. http://elnaschie.com/bilder/file/4.%20Is%20quantum%20space%20a%20random%20Cantor%20set.pdf

Categories: Egyptian physicists | Cosmologists

This information, including the unusual typo “People`Republic of China”, can mostly be found El Naschie’s homepage, where it says:

Mohamed El Naschie, born 1943 in Cairo, Egypt. He received his entire education in West Germany (Hamburg and Hannover ) and later on in England where he obtained his Ph.D. from the University College, London - U.K.. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics, England and a distinguised Fellow of the Physics Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt. He is a visiting Professor in numerous Universities including University of Cairo, University of Alexandria (Dept. of Physics), Egypt.

He is advisor of the Egyptian Ministry for Science and Technology (High Energy Physics and Nanotechnology). He is Honorary Professor in Shanghai`s Jiao Tong University as well as the Donghua University in the People`Republic of China.

He is also the principle advisor of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KACST - Riyadh) since many years.

On his homepage, his mailing address is listed as P.O. Box 272, Cobham, Surrey KT11 2FQ, England, U.K.

A brief search through the Goethe Universität website revealed no mention of El Naschie.

You’ll note that in the Wikipedia article the phrase “E-infinity space-time theory” is stuck into the second sentence in a curious way. This was a link to another Wikipedia article that has also been deleted. This too is currently visible in the Google cache. Again, for the sake of posterity, here it is:

E-infinity theory

E infinity theory is a fractal cosmology model made by M. S. El Naschie beginning in 1994[1]. This models a harmonic production of quarks and elementary particles through a golden section centered Cantorian fractal spacetime.

The crucial step in E infinity formulation was to identify the stormy ocean-like behavior of quantum spacetime with vacuum fluctuation and using the mathematical tools of non-linear dynamics, complexity theory, and chaos. In particular, the geometry of chaotic dynamics, namely fractal geometry, is reduced to its quintessence, (i.e., Cantor sets) and employed directly in the geometrical description of the fluctuation of the vacuum.

E infinity theory admits formally infinite-dimensional ‘‘real’’ spacetime. However this infinity is hierarchical in a strict mathematical way and is able to show that although E infinity has formally infinitely many dimensions, seen from a distance, i.e., at low resolution or equivalently at low energy, it mimics the appearance of a four-dimensional spacetime manifold which has only four dimensions. Thus, the four dimensionality is a probabilistic statement, a so-called expectation value. It is remarkable that the Hausdorff dimension of this topologically four dimensional-like ‘‘pre’’ manifold is also a finite value equal to the cube of golden mean (4,236…).[2]

See Also:

Fractal cosmology

Fractal time
Scale relativity

References

1. Is Quantum Space a Random Cantor Set with a Golden Mean Dimension at the Core?”

2. El Naschie, Mohamed (2004), “A review of ε^(∞) theory and the mass spectrum of high energy particle physics”, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 19(1): 209–236, doi:10.1016/S0960-0779(03)00278-9, ISSN 0960-0779 .

The two papers here are nice examples of El Naschie’s papers in the journal he edits. Unlike most, the first is freely available — for now. So, check it out!

Posted by: John Baez on November 9, 2008 7:59 PM | Permalink

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Hi John,

thanks for picking up this story! It’s a bit like “Einstein-Cartan-Evans Theory” hijacking Foundation of Physics Letters ;-)

I have been suspicious a few times how it can happen that such a journal is being published. It may well be that the papers on nonlinear dynamics proper are fine, but a lot of other stuff is clearly crappy. It’s not just the E-infinity Cantor sponge - for example, Otto Roesslers paper showing his understanding of GR and underlying his “LHC black hole eats Earth in 50 days” musings had also been published there.

Anyway, El-Nashie is indeed a “Distinguished Fellow” in Frankfurt - he was awarded this title in June 2002, and there is even a writeup of the speeches of this event (in German, as PDF). However, this “Fellowship” has not been awarded by the physics department, but by a private association. El-Nashie gave a talk at the physics colloquium around that time which was quite, eh, strange. But some of the elder faculty seemed to be lured by him somehow.

He later also was a visitor at the Frankurt Institute for Advanced Studies, if I remember correctly, but as far as I know, he never had any official affiliation to FIAS.

Posted by: Stefan on November 11, 2008 9:14 PM | Permalink

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Thanks for the information, Stefan! I hope you or Bee blog about this a little. I bet a lot more people read Backreaction than the $n$ -Category Café, and surely more physicists. It’s an entertaining story, when properly told — and if enough people find out about it, any problems that may exist will surely be fixed.

Anyway, El-Nashie is indeed a “Distinguished Fellow” in Frankfurt - he was awarded this title in June 2002, and there is even a writeup of the speeches of this event (in German, as PDF). However, this “Fellowship” has not been awarded by the physics department, but by a private association.

Hmm, that’s a curious arrangement! His webpage says he’s a “distinguised Fellow of the Physics Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt”.

Posted by: John Baez on November 12, 2008 3:19 AM | Permalink

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Hi John, thanks for the nice words! I guess you are overestimating the reach of backreaction a bit ;-) - at least your voice is much more important in this story!

Actually, I had thought about writing a post on “Chaos, Solitons and Fractals” and El Naschie earlier this year - that was when Otto Roessler’s “Black Holes at the LHC” fearmongering came up, and Roessler made a point that he had published papers on the foundations of his “theory” - unfortunately, the Journal turned out to be “Chaos, Solitons and Fractals”, where he is on the Honorary Editorial Board. Now, of course, I knew this journal, because big piles of printed copies had been lying around in the coffee room of the Frankfurt theoretical physics institute - that was because the former director of the institute was/is also on the Honorary Editorial Board. Eventually, I didn’t write anything, in part because I was a bit afraid to embarrass our former director and my editor-in-chief at that time (in his role as the Regional Editor Europe for CS&F). I am not sure what they actually think of El Naschie and its scientific merits, but I have some ideas…

About the “Distinguished Fellowship”, that’s bit complicated, and I was not sure who actually had awarded this title to El Naschie until I read it again in the printed proceedings of the event - even though I had been there at the time. The thing is, to my knowledge, no German university department awards anything as a “Distinguished Fellowship” - there are honorary doctorates/professorships, but no “fellowships”. In this case, a few Frankfurt physics professors and wealthy Frankfurt citizens had founded a few years ago an “Association for the Advancement of Fundamental Research in Physics” - basically a fundraising organisation which awards prizes each year to physics faculty and students. In principle, this is a very good idea, I think. And it is this association that has awarded the “Distinguished Fellowship” to El Naschie - whatever this means. But I am not so sure if he (or many other people, that is) is aware of the fact that the association and the physics department are distinct organisations.

Posted by: Stefan on November 12, 2008 9:40 PM | Permalink

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Naschie’s been around for a while as I remember. I believe there was a controversy a few years ago where he falsely claimed a DAMTP affiliation on a paper on the arXiv, for example.

Posted by: Aaron Bergman on November 12, 2008 9:54 PM | Permalink

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Interesting. El Naschie has two papers on the arXiv. One has been withdrawn. The other says “The incorrect affiliation of M. S. El Naschie was removed”.

There are at least 25 papers that mention his name somehow. A number of these say: “Invited paper to appear in the special issue of the ‘Journal of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals’ on: “Superstrings, M,F,S,… Theory”.

One of these has Yuval Ne’eman as an author!

Posted by: John Baez on November 13, 2008 4:39 AM | Permalink

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I know many of the authors of those invited papers. They seem perfectly legit. On the other hand, the other listed editor, Carlos Castro (who appears to have renamed himself Carlos Castro Perelman), has a long, not-so-illustrious history with the arXiv. Google if you want to dive deep into the seamy underbelly of the preprint server.

Posted by: Aaron Bergman on November 13, 2008 4:51 AM | Permalink

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“Perelman”?? Wow! I first heard about Carlos Castro in regards the Riemann hypothesis.

By the way, it turns out that Laurent Nottale of ‘scale relativity’ fame is on the board of editors of Chaos, Solitons & Fractals.

(Read the Wikipedia article on this soon — it may not last long! And check out the picture of a sharpened pencil.)

Posted by: John Baez on November 13, 2008 6:50 AM | Permalink

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On his homepage, his mailing address is listed as P.O. Box 272, Cobham, Surrey KT11 2FQ, England, U.K.

The official page for Chaos, Solitons & Fractals lists this same address for Mr. El Naschie, but curiously, no academic affiliation. Most of the associate editors have academic affiliations listed (with one exception, somebody with a post office box in Denmark).

I looked up Cobham on Google Maps. It’s a London suburb, southwest of the city, just inside the M25 beltway. I’m not familiar enough with greater London to know if that’s a likely place for an allegedly distinguished scientist to live, but I’m not aware of any universities around there.

Posted by: Eric Lund on November 12, 2008 2:36 PM | Permalink

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That doesn’t mean anything, though—he could easily commute into London from there. Though not from Egypt, of course.

Posted by: Tim Silverman on November 12, 2008 3:01 PM | Permalink

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“since many years.”
I wish I had a better grasp at broad swaths of linguistics, because this is a non-native speaker error I’ve seen a lot. But I only really know for sure that Germans are prone to it.

Any chance this guy is a reverse Sokal? I doubt it, though. This sounds like Warda and Hahn all over again - just on an even grander scale. The guy has chutzpah, I s’pose.

Posted by: Sili on November 10, 2008 7:25 PM | Permalink

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“since many years.”

I wish I had a better grasp at broad swaths of linguistics, because this is a non-native speaker error I’ve seen a lot. But I only really know for sure that Germans are prone to it.

It also arises from the French “depuis quelques annees”. Vocabulary-fluent French speakers of English substitute “depuis”=>”since”, “quelques”=>”several” or “many”, and “annees”=>”years”. Counting and calendar-related nouns are fairly universal things in Europe, so “many” and “years” translate well, but prepositions and relational words— not to mention verb-tense— do not.

English in particular is fond of auxiliaries, whereas French often prefers declension as in “he had been painting” vs. “il peignait”. (clearly, more context is required for this translation pair to be correct)

Another part of the difficulty is the English “ago” that distinguishes logical vs. temporal “since”. The closest consctruct I know in French to this “ago” is the prefatory “il-y-a”, as in “il-y-a quelques annees, …”, but this seems to signal implicit completion, whatever tense of verb follows:
“Il-y-a quelques annees, je croyait avoir resolu l’hypothese de Riemann.” — “croyait” is imperfect, signifying belief extended in time, but in the full context, that extent is separated from the present. The comparable anglicism “Depuis il-y-a … ” doesn’t seem to arise natively. Try this search to check.

Finally it doesn’t help that what might be the best translation uses “for” instead of “since”. “For” is yet another of those very-overloaded English prepositions. I don’t want to get started on that… this is probably enough digression for now.

Posted by: some guy on the street on November 10, 2008 9:28 PM | Permalink

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As of today, the website getCITED lists 230 publications for El Naschie, in reverse chronological order.

The first one on the list has the delightful title ‘Thomas Mann and Heinrich Mann, Dual Brothers and Complimentary Genius Embraced by Complex Reality’. It appeared in International Journal of Nonlinear Science & Numerical Simulation, with no date listed.

Ever since 1993, the vast majority of his papers were published in his own journal, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. They’re mainly about something he calls ‘E-infinity theory’.

Before 1993, he published in various engineering journals. His publications back then were very different! A typical title is ‘A branching solution for the local buckling of a circumferentially cracked cylindrical shell’. It would be interesting to know what happened in 1993.

The sheer magnitude of El Naschie’s accomplishments is difficult to grasp without perusing his list of publications. So, for your reading pleasure, here it is:

El Naschie, M.S.. (no date) Thomas Mann and Heinrich Mann, Dual Brothers and Complimentary Genius Embraced by Complex Reality (Journal Article in International Journal of Nonlinear Science & Numerical Simulation )

El Naschie, M.S.. (no date) Is gravity less fundamental than elementary particles theory? Critical remarks on holography and E-infinity (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2008) String theory, exceptional Lie groups hierarchy and the structural constant of the universe (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2008) Super-symmetric quantum gravity inverse coupling from the Exceptional Lie symmetry groups hierarchy (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2008) Exceptional Lie groups hierarchy and some fundamental high energy physics equations (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2008) Notes on exceptional lie symmetry groups hierarchy and possible implications for E-infinity high energy physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2008) Roots lattices hierarchies of exceptional Lie symmetry groups and the elementary particles content of the standard model (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2008) Extended renormalizations group analysis for quantum gravity and Newton`s gravitational constant (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2008) The exceptional eightfold way to a possible Higgs field (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2008) Symmetry group prerequisite for E-infinity in high energy physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2008) Noether`s theorem, exceptional Lie groups hierarchy and determining 1/ alpha = 137 of electromagnetism (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2007) The elementary particles content of quantum spacetime via Feynman graphs and higher dimensional polytops (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2007) Gauge anomalies, SU(N) irreducible representation and the number of elementary particles of a minimally extended standard model (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2007) Hilbert space, Poincari dodecahedron and golden mean transfiniteness (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2007) The Fibonacci code behind super strings and P-branes. An answer to M. Kaku`s fundamental question (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2007) Estimating the experimental value of the electromagnetic fine structure constant alpha = 1/137.036 using the leech lattice in conjunction with the mosnter group and Spher`s kissing number in 24 dimensions (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2007) SU(5) grand unification in a transfinite form (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2007) An economist for all seasons - John Kenneth Galbraith (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2007) On gauge invariance, dissipative quantum mechanics and self-adjoint sets (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2007) A derivation of the electromagnetic coupling alpha = 137.036 (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) Hilbert space, the number of Higgs particles and the quantum two-slit experiment (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals ) Editor

No contributors listed. (2006) Holographic dimensional reduction: Center manifold theorem an E-infinity (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) Hilbert, Fock and Cantorian spaces in the quantum two-slit gedanken experiment (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) Elementary number theory in superstrings, loop quantum mechanics, twistors and E-infinity high energy physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) The idealized quantum two-slit gedanken-experiment revisted-Criticism and reinterpretation (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) Fractal black holes and information (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) Superstirngs, entropy and the elementary particles content of the standard model (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) On being a man who wants to know everything: G `t Hoofts 60th birthday address (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) On teo fuzzy Kdhler manifolds, Klein modular space and `t-Hooft holographic principles (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) Pentaquark mass sum rule and the Higgs (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) Topics in the mathematical physics of E-infinity theory (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) The Feynman Path Integral and E-infinity from tzhe two-slit Gedanken Experiment (Journal Article in International Journal of Nonlinear Science & Numerical Simulation )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) Advanced prerequisite for E-infinity theory (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) Intermediate prerequisites for E-infinity theory (further recomended reading in nonlinear dynamics and mathematical physics) (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) Elementary prerequisites for E-infinity: (Recommended background reading in nonlinear dynamics, geometry and topology (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) Is Einstein`s general field equation more fundamental than quantum field theory and particle physics? (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) Nanotechnolgy for the developing world (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) Fuzzy Dodecahedron topology and E-infinity spacetime as a model for quantum physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) On the vital role played by the electron-volt units system in high energy physics and mach`s principle of “Denkvkonomie” (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) Holographic correspondence and quantum gravity in E-infinity spacetime (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) An elementary proof for the nine missing particles of the standard model (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) Superstring theory: What it cannot do but E-infinity could (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) E- infinity theory - Some recent results and new interpretations (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) The missing particles of the Standard model via a unified particle-field framework (Journal Article in International Journal of Nonlinear Science & Numerical Simulation )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2006) Linderhof Room of Mirrors, Thurston Three.manifolds and the Geometry of our Universe (Journal Article in International Journal of Nonlinear Science & Numerical Simulation )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) On Pauli`s principle of “Zweiteilung und Symmetrie Verminderung” in Higgs physics and non-linear dynmaics (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Anomaly cancellation and the mass spectrum of … (Journal Article in Chaos solitons and fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Determining the number of Higg`s Particle starting from general relativity and various other field theories (Journal Article in Chaos solitons and fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Einstein`s dream and fractals geometry (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) `t Hooft ultimate building blocks and space-time as an infinite dimensional set of transfinite discrete points (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) The supersymmetric components of the Riemann-Einstein tensor as nine dimensional spheres in ten dimensional space (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) On a Fuzzy Kdhler-like manifold which is consistent with the two slit experiment (Journal Article in International Journal of Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Deriving the essential features of the standard model from the general theory of relativity (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Experimental and theoretical arguements for the number and mass of the Higgs particles (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Einstein in a complex time - some very personal thoughts about E-infinity theory and modern physics (Journal Article in International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Anton Chekhov - SCientist, Poet and Enviromental Nonlinear Dynamics (Journal Article in International Journal of Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Spinorial content of the standard model, a different look a super-symmetry and fuzzy E-infinity hyper Kaehler (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Stability analysis of the two-slit experiments with quantum particles (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Transfinite electrical networks, spinoral varieties and gravity Q-bits. (Journal Article in International Journal of Nonlinear Science & Numerical Simulation )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Higgs number form anomaly cancellation and super Riemann tensor (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) On 336 kissing spheres in 10 dimensions, 528 P-brane states in 11 dimensions and the 60 elementary particles of the standard model. (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) On the possibility of six gravity related particles in the standard model of high energy physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Anton Chekhov - Scientist, Poet and Enviromental Nonlinear Dynamics (Journal Article in International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) From the two-slit experiments to the expected number of Higgs particles in the standard model (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Proving superstring theory using loop quantum mechanics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) On the cohomology and instantons number in E-infinity Cantorian spacetime (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Non-Euclidean spacetime structure and the two-slit experiment (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Stability analysis of the two-slit experiment with quantum particles (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Spinorial content of the standard model, a different look at supersymmetry and fuzzy E-infinity hyper Kdhler (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) On a class of fuzzy Kdhler-like manifolds (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) A guide to the mathematics of E-infinity Cantorian spacetime theory (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Anew solution for the two-slit experiment (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Kdhler-like manifolds, Weyl spinor particles and E-infinity high energy physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) From experimental quantum optics to quantum gravity via a fuzzy Kdhler manifold (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) The two-slit experiment as the foundation of E-infinity of high energy physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) An elementary model based method for determining the number of possible Higg bosons in the standard model (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) A tale of two Kleins unified in strings and E-infinity theory (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) Dead or alive: Desperately seeking Schrvdinger`s cat (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) A few hints and some theorems about Witten`s M theory and T-duality (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.; El Naschie, M.S.. (2005) A note on various supersymmetric extensions of teh standard model of high-energy particles and E-infinity theory (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie. M.S., . (2005) On Penrose view of transfinite sets and computability and the fractals character of E-infinity spacetime (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, . (2005) A P-Brane vindication of the two Higgs-doublet minimally super-symmetric standard model and related issues (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, . (2005) On a class of fuzzy Kaehler-like manifolds (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, . (2005) the Two-slit experiment as the foundation of E-infinity of high energy physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, . (2005) On Einstein`s super symmetric tensor and the number of elementary particles of the standard model (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie M.S., ; El Naschie M.S., . (2004) A review of E infinity theory and the mass spectrum of high energy particle physics (Journal Article in Chaos, solitons, and fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2004) How gravitational instanton could solve the mass problem of a disintegrating symplistic vacuum (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2004) Quantum gravity, Clifford algebras, fuzzy set theory and the fundmental constants of nature (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2004) The concept of E infinity: an elementary introduction to the Cantorian-fractal theory of the Quantum Physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2004) Gravitational instanton in Hilbert space and the mass of high energy elementary particles (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2004) New elementary particles as a possible product of a disintegrating symplictic vacuum (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2004) The symplictic vacuum, exotic quasdiparticles and gravitational instanton (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2004) The Concepts of E Infinity: An elementary introduction to the Cantorian-fractal theory of quantum physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2004) Supersymmetry, transfinited neural networks, hyperbolic manifolds, quantum gravity and the Higgs (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2004) Quantum gravity from descriptive set theory (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2004) An (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2004) New elementary particles as a possible product of a disintegrating symplistic vacuum (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2004) The concepts of E-infinity. An introduction to the Cantorian-fractal theory of Quantum Physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2004) How gravitational instanton could solve the mass problem of the standard model of high energy particle physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, . (2004) The Higgs-physical and number theoretical arguments for the necessity of a triple elementary particle in super symmetric spacetime (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2003) The mass or the neutrinos via the energy of the cosmic background radiation of the VAK (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2003) Complx vacuum fluctuation as a chaotic “limit” set of any Kleinian group transformation and the mass spectrum of high energy particle physics via spontaneous self-organisation (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2003) The Cantorian interpretation of high energy physics and the mass spectrum of elementary particles (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2003) VAK, vacuum fluctuation and the mass spectrum of high energy particle physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2003) The VAK of vacuum fluctuation spontaneous self organization and complexity theory interpretation of high energy particle physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2003) Nonlinear dynamics and infinite dimensional topology in high energy particle physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2002) On the exact mass spectrum of quarks (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2002) On a glass of general theories for high energy particle phyiscs (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2002) Wild topology, hyperbolic geometry and fusion algebra of high energy particle physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2002) On the mass of the neutrinos (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2002) Modular groups in Cantorian E infinity high energy physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2002) Quantum loops, wild topology and fat Cantor sets in transfinite high energy Physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2002) Determining the temperature of microwave background radiation from the topology and geometry of spacetime (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) Heterotic string space-time from probability theory (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) On Twistors in Cantorian space. (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) The 26 dimensions of heterotic strings as a probabolistic standard deviation and expectation value of an infinite dimensional space (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) On an indirect experimental confirmation of heterotic superstrings via electromagnetic fine structure constant (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) The dimensions of the heterotic theory and the expectation values of the Hausdorff dimension of a probabolistic stringy space (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) The exact value of the smallest quantum gravity coupling constat 1/dg = 42.36067977 (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) Theoretical derivation and experimental confirmation of the topology of transfinite heterotic strings (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) Notes on superstrings and the infinite sums of Fibonacci and Lucas numbers (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) Notes on superstrings and the infinite sums of Fibonacci and Lucas numbers (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) The Hausdorff dimensions of heterotic string fields are D (-)= 26.18033989 and D(+)= 10 (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) A general theory for the topology of transfinite heterotic strings and quantum gravity (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) Dimensional regularization implies transfinite heterotic string theory (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) Remarks to moduli space, virtual dimensions and heterotic strings (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) The 26 dimensions of heterotic strings as a probabilistic standard deviation and expectation value of an infinite dimensional space (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) On transfinite heterotic string theory (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) Dimensional regularization implies transfinite heterotic string theory (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) On a general theory for quantum- gravity interaction and an experimental confirmation of heterotic strings (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) Remarks to moduli spaces, virtual dimensions and heterotic strings (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2001) On a heterotic string-based algorithm for the determination of the fine structure constant (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2000) Elastic buckling loads and fission critical mass as an eigenvalue of a symmetry breaking bifurcation (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2000) On the eigenvalue of nuclear reaction and self-weight buckling (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2000) On the eigenvalue of transport reaction involving fast neutron (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2000) Heisenberg`s critical mass calculations for an explosive nuclear reaction (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2000) Towards a geometrical theory for the unification of all fundamental forces (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2000) On the unification of the fundamental forces of complex time in the E-infinity space (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2000) Estimating the eigenvalue of fast reacotrs and Cantorian space (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2000) A simplified estimation of the critical mass of fast neutrons reaction (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (2000) On spaces with 26 dimensions (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie M.S., . (1999) From implosion to fractal spheres: a brief account of the historical development of scientific ideas leading to the Trinity test and beyond (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1999) Nonlinear classical Dynamics and knot invariants (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1999) Hyperdimensional geometry and the nature of physical spacetime (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1999) A note on the subtle man in physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1999) Jones` invariant, Cantorian geometry and quantum spacetime (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1999) A note on quantum field theory and P-brans in n dimensions (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1999) A remark on the cosmic microwave background radiation and the Hausdorff dimension of spacetime (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1999) The golden mean in quantum geometry, knot theory and related topics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1999) Nonlinear classical dynamics and knot invariants (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1999) Quantum Groups and Hamiltonian sets on nuclear space-time Cantorian manifold (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie. M.S., . (1999) The golden mean in quantum geometry, knot theory and related topics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1998) Superstrings, knots and noncommutative geometry in space (Journal Article in International JOurnal of Theoretical Physics )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1998) Dimensional Symmetry breaking, information and fractal gravity in Cantorian space (Journal Article in BioSystems )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1998) On the irreducibility of spatial ambiguity in quantum physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1998) On the uncertainty of Cantorian geometry and the two-slit experiments (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1998) Four as the expectation value of the set of all positive integers and the geometry of four manifolds (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1998) Fredholm operators and the wave-particle diality in Cantorian space (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1998) The average (n) sphere spans a four-dimensional manifold (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1998) The fractal dimension of spacetime - remarks on theoretical derivation and experimental verification (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1998) Some tentative proposals for the experimental verfication of Cantorian micro space-time (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1998) Four as the expectation value of the set of all positive integers and the geometry of four manifolds (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1998) Chaos and Fractals in Nano and Quantum Technology (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1998) Penrose universe and Cantorian spacetime as a model for noncommutative quantum geometry (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1997) Dimensional Symmetry breaking, Information and the Arrow of Time in Cantorian Space (Journal Article in World Future Society bulletin )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1997) A note on quantum gravity and Cantorian spacetime (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1997) A note on quantum gravity and Cantorian spacetime (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1997) Remarks on superstrings, fractal gravity, Nagasawa`s diffusion and Cantorian space-time (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1997) Fractal gravity and symmetry breaking in a hierarchical Cantorian space (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1996) Kolomgorov scaling in Appolonian fractals as a model of Cantorian spacetime (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1996) Wick rotation, Cantorian spaces and the complex arrow of time in quantum physics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1995) Statistical Geometry of a Cantor Discretum and Semiconductors (Journal Article in Computers and Mathematics Application )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1995) A note on quantum mechanics, diffusional interference and informions (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1995) On the nature of complex time, diffusion and the two-slit experiment (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) Silver Mean Hausdorff dimension and Cantor sets (Journal Article in Chaos solitons and fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) Is quantum space a random Cantor set with a Golden Mean dimension at the core (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) In certain “empty” Cantor sets and their dimension. (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) Iterated Function Systems and the two-slit experiments of Quantum Mechanics (Journal Article in Chaos solitons and fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) Dimensions and Cantor spectra (Journal Article in Chaos, solitons, and fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) Renormalization semi-groups and the dimensions of Cantorian space-time. (Journal Article in Chaos solitons and fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) Quantum Measurement, diffusion and Cantorian geodesics (Journal Article in Chaos solitons and fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) Orbits Stability and Dimensional Cantor sets (Journal Article in Applied Mathematic Letters )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) Quantum measurement, diffusion and Cantorian geodesics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) The Mean uncertainty and Distance Dimension of multidimensional Cantorian spaces (Journal Article in Mathematical and computer modelling )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) Forbidden symmetries, Cantor sets and hypothetical graphite (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) Dimension and Cantor spectra (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) Iterated Function Systems and the two-slit experiment of Quantum Mechanics (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) Silver Mean Hausdorff dimension and Cantor sets (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) Is quantum space a random Cantor set with a Golden Mean dimension at the core ? (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) On certain”empty” Cantor sets and their dimensions (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) Renormalization semi-groups and the dimension of Cantorian space-time (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1994) Average Symmetry, Stability and Ergodicity of Multidimensional Cantor sets (Journal Article in Il Nuovo cimento della Societ` italiana di fisica )

El Naschie M.S., . (1993) On certain infinite dimensional Cantor sets and the Schrvdinger wave (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie M.S., . (1993) Internal Cantor distance and entropy of multidimensional Peano-Hilbert spaces (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie M.S., . (1993) Penrose tiling, semi-conduction and Cantorian 1/ f spectra in four and five dimensions (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie M.S., . (1993) Semiconductors and Cantorian spectra (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1993) KAM Orbits and dimensional criticality. (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1993) Cantorian Distance, Statistical Mechanics and Universal Behaviour of Multi-Dimensional Triadic sets (Journal Article in Mathematical and computer modelling )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1993) On certain infinite dimensional Cantor sets and the Schrvdinger wave (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1993) Semiconductors, Fermi statistics and multi-dimensional Cantor sets (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1993) Internal Cantor distance and entropy of multidimensional Peano-Hilbert spces (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S. . (1993) On certain infinite dimensional Cantor sets and the Schrvdinger wave (Journal Article in Chaos Solitons and Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1993) -Statistical Mechanics of multidimensional Cantor sets, Gvdels theorem and quantum space-time (Journal Article in Journal of the Franklin Institute )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1993) Quantum Mechanics, Cantorian Space-time and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (Journal Article in Vistas in astronomy )

El Naschie, . (1993) On dimensions of Cantor set related system (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons &Choas )

El Naschie M.S., . (1992) Complex Dynamic in a 4D Peano-Hilbert Space (Journal Article in Il Nuovo cimento della Societ` italiana di fisica )

El Naschie M.S., . (1992) On the Uncertainty of Information in Quantum Space-Time. (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie M.S., . (1992) Multi-dimensional Cantor sets in classical and quantum mechanics (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie M.S., . (1992) A note on Heisenberg`s uncertainty priciple and Cantorian Spacetime (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie M.S., . (1992) On the Uncertainty of Information in Quantum Space-Time. (Journal Article in Chaos solitons and fractals )

Brindley, J.; Kapitaniak, T.; El Naschie, M.S.. (1991) Analytic conditions for strange chaotic and nonchaotic attractors of the quasiperiodically forced Van der Pol equation (Journal Article in Physica D )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1991) Quantum Mechanics and the possibility of a Cantorian Space-Time (Journal Article in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1989) On the connection between Statical and Dynamical Chaos (Journal Article in Zeitschrift f|r Naturforschung )

El Naschie, M.S.; Wu, C.W.; Wifi, A.S.. (1988) A simple discrete element method of the initial post buckling of elastic structure (Journal Article in International journal for numerical methods in engineering )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1984) Comparative perturbation postbuckling study of the elastic ring (Journal Article in Journal of applied mathematics and mechanics )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1977) An estimation of the lower stability limit of the free edge orthotropic cylindrical shell in axial compression (Journal Article in Journal of applied mathematics and mechanics )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1977) A simple finite element mechanical model for the numerical estimation of buckling loads (Journal Article in Internation Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1976) Displacement field in the nonlinear theory of shells (Journal Article in Journal of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1976) Thermal initial post buckling of the extensional elastica (Journal Article in International Journal of Mechanical Science )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1976) Post critical behaviour of Beck problem. (Journal Article in Journal of sound and vibration )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1976) Imperfection sensivity and isoperimetric variational problem (Journal Article in Journal of spacecraft and rockets )

El Naschie, . (1976) A note on the conservativeness of a certain type of external pressure (Journal Article in Journal of applied mathematics and mechanics )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1975) Asymptotic post buckling solution of the ring in an elastic foundation (Journal Article in Journal of guidance control and dynamics A publication of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics devoted to the technology of dynamics and control )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1975) Initial post buckling solution of a cracked physically nonlinear cylindrical shell (Journal Article in International journal of fracture )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1975) The role of formulation in elastic buckling and the stability of spherical shells. (Journal Article in Journal of applied mathematics and mechanics )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1975) Le role de la formulation dans distorsion elastique et la stabiliti es coques spheriques (Journal Article in Revue Francaise de Mechanique )

El Naschie, . (1975) The initial post buckling of an extensional ring under external pressure (Journal Article in International Journal od Mechanical Science )

El Naschie, . (1975) Localized diamond shaped buckling patterns of axially compressed cylindrical shells (Journal Article in Journal of guidance control and dynamics A publication of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics devoted to the technology of dynamics and control )

El Naschie, M.S.. (1974) Exact asymptotic solution for the initial post buckling of a strut on a linear elastic foundation (Journal Article in Journal of applied mathematics and mechanics )

El Naschie, . (1974) A branching solution for the local buckling of a circumferentially cracked cylindrical shell (Journal Article in International Journal of Mechanical Science )

Posted by: John Baez on November 9, 2008 8:34 PM | Permalink

Re: The Case of M. S. El Naschie

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Naschie doesn’t just write hundreds of papers for his own journal. His journal also publishes lots of papers on his ‘theory’ written by other people!

Indeed, a quick search turns up 139 papers with “Naschie” in the title, abstract or list of keywords. The December 2008 issue has three. Here they are:

M. Agop, Cristina Radu, T. Bontas, El Naschie’s ε(∞) space–time and scale relativity theory in the topological dimension D = 3, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals Volume 38, Issue 5, December 2008, Pages 1243-1253.
Ayman A. El-Okaby, The exceptional E-infinity theory holographic boundary, F-theory and the number of particles in the standard model, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Volume 38, Issue 5, December 2008, Pages 1286-1291.
Ayman A. El-Okaby, Exceptional Lie groups, E-infinity theory and Higgs Boson, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Volume 38, Issue 5, December 2008, Pages 1305-1317.

If all these papers cite each other, they will all get a high citation index and count as ‘good papers’ to the bureaucrats who don’t know better… even if none of them make any sense!

But do they make sense?

Here’s a typical observation from the last paper: the number of symmetries of Klein’s quartic curve, counting reflections, is 336, which matches the number of independent components of the Riemann curvature tensor in 8-dimensional space, namely

$8^{2} (8^{2} - 1) / 12 = 336$

This is true. But is it interesting? No: the author leaves it as a piece of pure numerology.

He also claims that the ‘dimension’ of the group $SL (2,7)$ is $7 (7^{2} - 1) = 336$ . This is complete hogwash.

The applications of these numerical coincidences to physics are also nonsensical.

The paper has 42 references, almost all to other papers in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals — and over half to papers by El Naschie.

Posted by: John Baez on November 9, 2008 11:05 PM | Permalink

Re: The Case of M. S. El Naschie

He also claims that the ‘dimension’ of the group SL(2,7 ) is 7 (7² −1 )=336 . This is complete hogwash.

It’s ignorantly phrased, but presumably he meant that the order is 7 (7²-1)=336, which is true.

Posted by: Anonymous on November 9, 2008 11:23 PM | Permalink

Re: The Case of M. S. El Naschie

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Right.

Posted by: John Baez on November 9, 2008 11:44 PM | Permalink

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As someone who used to work in the area of Dynamical Systems during my PhD, I’d like to say that this journal Chaos Solitons and Fractals quickly appeared to me to be full of incorrect or even meaningless papers. This name El Nashie indeed clearly rings a bell, although I had not seen he was the editor!

Let it be clear though that it is certainly not representative in any way of the applied nonlinear dynamics literature as a whole, there are much higher quality standards and results in some other journals (even if to a mathematicians’ eyes some of it is not always rigorous of course).

I’m fairly sure there exists other such scientific journals whose sole aim is to publish papers by the editors and their friends regardless of the papers correctness…

Posted by: former_student on November 10, 2008 9:39 AM | Permalink

Re: The Case of M. S. El Naschie

After discovering the existence of this ignored genius through this discussion, I couldn’t resist and had a look at his work (I am so blessed by providence that my library paid Elsevier enough to give me access on line to all of this wonderful journal: Chaos, Solitons & Fractals…).

I had a look by random at three papers, and I felt really lucky: if you have the opportunity to ‘read’ the following two articles,

El Naschie, On dimensions of Cantor set related system, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Vol 3, no. 6 (1993)

and

El Naschie, Dimension and Cantor spectra, Chaos Solitons and Fractals, Vol. 4, no. 11 (1994)

you will see that, up to a small bunch of lines, they are exactly the same (I mean word for word). Of course this method of writing is quite efficient to reach the 300’s of published papers. Well, 300 is not that much: the guy is lazy! Or maybe repeating the same thing three hundred times is a pedagogic trick to make sure we, dummy people, understand? Apart from kidding, did someone tried to count how much times he did copy himself so faithfully?

And I have been so lucky that the ‘results’ of these ‘two’ papers seem to form the corner stone of ‘E-infinity theory’.

I am just amazed.

Posted by: Denis-Charles Cisinski on November 11, 2008 3:00 AM | Permalink

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Very interesting! It’s sad enough that the fellow’s papers don’t make sense… I wouldn’t have guessed that he also plagiarized himself.

I urge everyone else with free access to Chaos, Solitons & Fractals to report on the marvelous discoveries hidden in this journal!

Posted by: John Baez on November 11, 2008 7:12 AM | Permalink

Re: The Case of M. S. El Naschie

Clearly this guy has just taken the concept of the journal of stuff I like to its logical extreme.

I’ve just checked and found that NTNU has access to this journal. It also registers as “level 1” in the Norwegian rankings (there are technically two levels, with 2 being the higher, but as it is possible to have no level at all then having level 1 is still a slightly positive statement about the journal). I’ll raise this issue with the relevant people.

May I suggest something a little coordinated? Perhaps someone with the gift of the gab could draft two documents:

A standard letter to ones library protesting the inclusion of this journal.
A petition (online?) to be sent to Elsevier protesting the inclusion of this journal in its bundles.

Posted by: Andrew Stacey on November 11, 2008 8:25 AM | Permalink

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