Post by nickelfire on Apr 6, 2008 17:40:43 GMT -5
Here's an essay I wrote a while ago on The Dancing Wu Li Masters a book concerning Quantum Physics and it's significant influence on new age consciousness... Just thought I'd share! ;D
Quantum Mechanics, an abstract branch of science, is misunderstood and shunned because of its contradictory nature in relation to general physics (or Newtonian physics). Physics, the study of the natural world, is built on proofs, i.e. results that may be reproduced under similar circumstantial testing. Science cannot accept a new theory as truth if it isn’t backed by substantial evidence of its validity and can be repeated indefinitely.
Quantum Mechanics, and all the theories it has spawned are therefore accepted with mixed regard among scientists, as it deals with probabilities on the microcosmic level where linear physics has no sway. An experiment on the atomic level cannot always be repeated and have the same results, but it is the accuracy of the theory’s probabilities that disallows science from refuting quantum mechanics.
But the real issue that keeps scientist’s from accepting the theory, is because it is built on a foundation that refutes objectivity, the fundamental philosophy that physics is based on, and claims that all phenomenon within experiments is effected by the scientist watching. That the observed and observer are one and the same, and reacting to each other subjectively. There is no such thing as pure objectivity. All matter is made up of the same particles... We are what we observe on the atomic level.
Ultimately, this acclamation gnaws at the principles and the mountain that physics is built on, and gives consciousness to that which was previously considered separate from us. But the evidence that backs this upstart theory is undeniable: classical physics cannot explain everything. And if the atomic and subatomic level (the building blocks of existence) is unknowable to physics, then the supposed understanding of the universe, through sciences eyes, is thrown into question.
Einstein’s famous theory of relativity was a bold step that attempted to explain the mysteries of the universe through Quantum Mechanics. This theory, and his ideas, reshaped modern science, and connected us to the once faraway existence of other stars, planets and matter across the universe. It gave distant reality our own reality, because we are made of the same thing. His legendary equation: E = mc², tells us that all matter, all that we are and everything around us, is energy. Energy can be translated to mean anything we like, which gives a creative element to existence that will be impossible for science as we know it, to accept.
It stretchs physical reality, and morphs it with metaphysical reality, the impossible is only within our minds, and lightyears of distance is a mindblink away.
Bell’s theorem, another historcal publication, in tandem with later experiments, validates everything that Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and many others have been saying since the beginning of the twentieth century: Our scientific (and basic) view of reality is actually, seriously flawed, and once laughable concepts are fast becoming very real replacements.
In short, Quantum Mechanics is a bridge between Physics and Metaphysics, it explains that our once predetermined views of our own existence and the existence of everything else, are now changing in ways that need both to explain.
Quantum Mechanics, an abstract branch of science, is misunderstood and shunned because of its contradictory nature in relation to general physics (or Newtonian physics). Physics, the study of the natural world, is built on proofs, i.e. results that may be reproduced under similar circumstantial testing. Science cannot accept a new theory as truth if it isn’t backed by substantial evidence of its validity and can be repeated indefinitely.
Quantum Mechanics, and all the theories it has spawned are therefore accepted with mixed regard among scientists, as it deals with probabilities on the microcosmic level where linear physics has no sway. An experiment on the atomic level cannot always be repeated and have the same results, but it is the accuracy of the theory’s probabilities that disallows science from refuting quantum mechanics.
But the real issue that keeps scientist’s from accepting the theory, is because it is built on a foundation that refutes objectivity, the fundamental philosophy that physics is based on, and claims that all phenomenon within experiments is effected by the scientist watching. That the observed and observer are one and the same, and reacting to each other subjectively. There is no such thing as pure objectivity. All matter is made up of the same particles... We are what we observe on the atomic level.
Ultimately, this acclamation gnaws at the principles and the mountain that physics is built on, and gives consciousness to that which was previously considered separate from us. But the evidence that backs this upstart theory is undeniable: classical physics cannot explain everything. And if the atomic and subatomic level (the building blocks of existence) is unknowable to physics, then the supposed understanding of the universe, through sciences eyes, is thrown into question.
Einstein’s famous theory of relativity was a bold step that attempted to explain the mysteries of the universe through Quantum Mechanics. This theory, and his ideas, reshaped modern science, and connected us to the once faraway existence of other stars, planets and matter across the universe. It gave distant reality our own reality, because we are made of the same thing. His legendary equation: E = mc², tells us that all matter, all that we are and everything around us, is energy. Energy can be translated to mean anything we like, which gives a creative element to existence that will be impossible for science as we know it, to accept.
It stretchs physical reality, and morphs it with metaphysical reality, the impossible is only within our minds, and lightyears of distance is a mindblink away.
Bell’s theorem, another historcal publication, in tandem with later experiments, validates everything that Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and many others have been saying since the beginning of the twentieth century: Our scientific (and basic) view of reality is actually, seriously flawed, and once laughable concepts are fast becoming very real replacements.
In short, Quantum Mechanics is a bridge between Physics and Metaphysics, it explains that our once predetermined views of our own existence and the existence of everything else, are now changing in ways that need both to explain.
