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Introduction (May 2008): Despite several thousand years of failure to
correctly understand physical reality (hence the current postmodern
view that this is impossible) it is actually very simple to work out how
matter exists and moves about in Space. We just had to take Science
(Occam's Razor / Simplicity) and Metaphysics
(Dynamic Unity of Reality) seriously and thus describe reality from only
one substance existing, as Leibniz
wrote; Reality cannot be found except in One single
source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
When we deduce
this most Simple Science Theory of Reality we find that there is only
one possible solution: Space must be the substance which exists and
matter is formed from waves in Space. i.e. While there are many minds
and material things, they all exist in one common Space (just look around
you and think about it). We can then show that the Wave Structure of Matter
is the correct solution as it deduces the fundamentals of Physics
& Philosophy
perfectly (there are no opinions).
I realise that there are a lot of 'crackpot' theories about truth and reality
on the internet, but this solution is the most simple one and it is obvious
once known (though it takes time for our minds to adjust to new knowledge).
In hindsight the error was obvious - to try and describe an interconnected
reality from the foundation of many discrete and separate things, matter
'particles', which then required forces / fields to connect them in space
and time. This was always just a mathematical
solution which never explained how matter was connected across the universe.
For those who are religious
/ spiritual, Space is really just another word for God (Brahman, Tao,
Spirit, Energy, Light). What is certain is that discrete and separate 'particles'
do not exist - we are all connected to this space that we all commonly experience.
This underlying unity of reality (God) is central to all major world religions,
thus their common moral
foundation of 'Do unto others as to thyself' as the other is part of the
self (we are all one with god / physical reality). Clearly there is still
much to explain about our minds,
our human emotions and moral / spiritual sense. This is no doubt the future
of theology and our understanding of 'God', to explore the properties of this
Space we all find ourselves existing in.
Please
help our world (human society / life on earth) by sharing this knowledge.
Clearly our world is in great trouble, heading rapidly towards self destruction
due to human overpopulation and the resultant destruction of Nature,
climate
change and the pollution of air, land and water (over 80,000 man made
chemicals contaminating everything we consume).
The best solution to these problems is to found
our societies on truth and reality rather than past myths and customs
(which invariably cause harm, our past and present global conflicts confirm
this).
I am not naive to the difficulties that humanity faces. But history shows
that truth eventually triumphs, that there are enough sensible logical people
in the world who appreciate the importance of truth. We are listed as one
of the Top
Philosophy Websites on the Internet with around 500,000 page views each
week, and rank in the top 20 in Google for many academic search terms - so
we just need a bit of help to get in the top five (our aim). Given the
Censorship in Physics / Philosophy of Science Journals (founded on the
standard model / particle physics) the internet is clearly the best way to
get new knowledge visible to the world. A world now in great need of wisdom
from truth and reality.
Sincerely, Geoff
Haselhurst - Karene
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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a
revolutionary act. (George Orwell)
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. (Mohandas Gandhi)
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. (Edmund
Burke)
Hell is Truth Seen Too Late. (Thomas Hobbes)
The Dynamic Unity of Reality Philosophy Physics Metaphysics Articles on Truth and Reality
by Philosopher of Science, Theoretical Physics, Metaphysics Geoff Haselhurst
Hello,
This is a page where I am adding links to the most important articles on this
website (also see links at top of every page). For a quick summary you can
mouse over images and links for alt. text. Hope you find it interesting,
we also think it is very important as it provides a very simple, sensible
and obvious description of physical reality.
Sincerely, Geoff Haselhurst, Email
(Bradley,
1846-1924) We may agree, perhaps, to understand by Metaphysics an attempt to
know reality as against mere appearance, or the study of first principles or
ultimate truths, or again the effort to comprehend the universe, not simply
piecemeal or by fragments, but somehow as a whole.
Drop a ball. Notice that you do not see any obvious connection between the
ball and the earth - yet they are obviously connected because we see the effect
of this connection, the ball moves (accelerates) towards the earth. The same
argument applies to the Earth orbiting the sun, an electron in an atom, how
we can see stars across the universe.
We give these connections names, e.g. light and gravity, but no one knew what
these hidden causal connections were.
It
must certainly be allowed, that nature has kept us at a great distance from
all her secrets, and has afforded us only the knowledge of a few superficial
qualities of objects; while she conceals from us those powers and principles
on which the influence of those objects entirely depends. (Hume,
1737)
When we look about us towards external objects, and consider
the operation of causes, we are never able, in a single instance, to discover
any power or necessary connexion; any quality, which binds the effect to the
cause, and renders the one an infallible consequence of the other. (Hume,
1737)
The
first philosophy (Metaphysics) is universal and is exclusively concerned
with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to
study that which is just as that which is, both in its essence and in the
properties which, just as a thing that is, it has.
The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within
themselves a principle of movement and rest. And to seek for this is to seek
for the second kind of principle, that from which comes the beginning of the
change.
(Aristotle, Metaphysics, 340BC)
Quantum Physics
(Quantum Theory / Wave Mechanics) The Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) explains Discrete Energy
States, Particle Wave Duality of Light & Matter & 'apparent' Instant
Action at a Distance (non-locality) of Quantum Mechanics.
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics
has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities,
but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an
experiment and the subsequent measurement. Quantum theory thus reveals a basic
oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently
existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show
us any isolated ‘basic building blocks’, but rather appears as
a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. (Fritjof
Capra, The Tao of Physics, On Quantum Theory)
What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but
shapes and variations in the structure of space. Particles are just schaumkommen
(appearances). The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one
perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot
be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical
sciences, for this barrier does not exist. (Erwin Schrodinger, on Quantum Theory)
Because Schrodinger believed in real waves, he was never happy with Max Born's
statistical / probability interpretation of the waves that became commonly
accepted (and was actively promoted by Heisenberg and Bohr) in Quantum Theory
/ Mechanics.
Let me say at the outset, that in this discourse, I am opposing
not a few special statements of quantum mechanics / quantum theory held today
(1950s), I am opposing as it were the whole of it, I am opposing its basic
views that have been shaped 25 years ago, when Max Born put forward his probability
interpretation, which was accepted by almost everybody. (Schrödinger E,
The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Ox Bow Press, Woodbridge, CN, 1995)
I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with
it. (Erwin Schrodinger talking about quantum theory.)
The notion that all these fragments is separately existent is
evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless
conflict and confusion. Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion
that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the
growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today. Thus,
as is now well known, this way of life has brought about pollution, destruction
of the balance of nature, over-population, world-wide economic and political
disorder and the creation of an overall environment that is neither physically
nor mentally healthy for most of the people who live in it. Individually there
has developed a widespread feeling of helplessness and despair, in the face
of what seems to be an overwhelming mass of disparate social forces, going
beyond the control and even the comprehension of the human beings who are caught
up in it.
(David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, 1980)
Physics: Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity Simplifying the Metaphysics of Einstein's Special and General
Relativity
When
forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence:
Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
(Albert Einstein)
Physical
objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended (as
fields). In this way the concept 'empty space' loses
its meaning. ... The field thus becomes an irreducible element of physical
description, irreducible in the same sense as the concept of matter (particles)
in the theory of Newton. ... The physical reality of space is represented
by a field whose components are continuous functions of four independent
variables - the co-ordinates of space and time. Since the theory of general
relatively implies the representation of physical reality by a continuous
field, the concept of particles or material points cannot play a fundamental
part, nor can the concept of motion. The particle can only appear as a limited
region in space in which the field strength or the energy density are particularly
high. (Albert Einstein, Metaphysics of Relativity, 1950)
Physics
constitutes a logical system of thought which is in a state of evolution, whose
basis (principles) cannot be distilled, as it were, from experience by an inductive
method, but can only be arrived at by free invention. The justification (truth
content) of the system rests in the verification of the derived propositions
(a priori/logical truths) by sense experiences (a posteriori/empirical
truths). ... Evolution is proceeding in the direction of increasing simplicity
of the logical basis (principles). .. We must always be ready to change these
notions - that is to say, the axiomatic basis of physics - in order to do justice
to perceived facts in the most perfect way logically. (Albert Einstein,
Physics and Reality, 1936)
Cosmology What is the Most Simple Cosmology & Does it Work? How
our Finite Spherical 'Observable Universe' Exists within Infinite Eternal Space
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive
at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by
pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting
on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them. (Albert
Einstein, 1918)
.. My purpose therefore is, to try if I can discover
what those principles are, which have introduced all that doubtfulness and
uncertainty, those absurdities and contradictions into the several sects of
philosophy; insomuch that the wisest men have thought our ignorance incurable,
conceiving it to arise from the natural dullness and limitation of our faculties.
(George Berkeley)
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us
how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other
ages, why do we not instruct them in it? ... Oddly, things have now reached
such a state that even among men of intelligence philosophy
means something fantastical and vain, without value or usefulness, both in
opinion and practice. (Michel de Montaigne)
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than
does knowledge: it is those who know little,
not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
(Charles Darwin, Introduction to The Descent of Man, 1871)
Evolution - Ecology - Nature - Culture - Society On the Metaphysics / Philosophy of Evolution, Ecology (Ecological
Interconnection of both Life and Matter), Nature & the Importance of Truth
to Human Culture / Society
Theology - Morality - God - World Religions A Metaphysical Foundation to the Fundamental Morality of
World Religions;'Do Unto Others as You Would Have Done Unto Yourself'
A
human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time
and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something
separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion
is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection
for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the
prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined
by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the
self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is
to survive. (Albert Einstein, 1954)
"When
forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time
and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. ... Physical
objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended.
In this way the concept 'empty space' loses its meaning. ... The particle
can only appear as a limited region in space in which the field strength or
the energy density are particularly high. ...
The free, unhampered exchange of ideas and scientific conclusions
is necessary for the sound development of science, as it is in all spheres
of cultural life. ... We must not conceal from ourselves that no
improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe
struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something
is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. ... Humanity is going to need a substantially new way of thinking if it
is to survive!" (Albert Einstein)
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(Bradley,
1846-1924) We may agree, perhaps, to understand by Metaphysics an attempt to
know reality as against mere appearance, or the study of first principles or
ultimate truths, or again the effort to comprehend the universe, not simply
piecemeal or by fragments, but somehow as a whole.
It
must certainly be allowed, that nature has kept us at a great distance from
all her secrets, and has afforded us only the knowledge of a few superficial
qualities of objects; while she conceals from us those powers and principles
on which the influence of those objects entirely depends. (Hume,
1737)
The
first philosophy (Metaphysics) is universal and is exclusively concerned
with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to
study that which is just as that which is, both in its essence and in the
properties which, just as a thing that is, it has.
When
forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence:
Physical
objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended 
Physics
constitutes a logical system of thought which is in a state of evolution, whose
basis (principles) cannot be distilled, as it were, from experience by an inductive
method, but can only be arrived at by free invention. The justification (truth
content) of the system rests in the verification of the derived propositions
(a priori/logical truths) by sense experiences (a posteriori/empirical
truths). ... Evolution is proceeding in the direction of increasing simplicity
of the logical basis (principles). .. We must always be ready to change these
notions - that is to say, the axiomatic basis of physics - in order to do justice
to perceived facts in the most perfect way logically. (Albert Einstein,
Physics and Reality, 1936)
"When
forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time
and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. ... Physical
objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended.
In this way the concept 'empty space' loses its meaning. ... The particle
can only appear as a limited region in space in which the field strength or
the energy density are particularly high. ...