Physics has had problems since Heisenberg Einstein and Bohr first encountered the network of relationships that is the universe..It's rooted in the Cartesian world view and without acknowledging the limits of that perspective it's relatively useless.
Descartes mechanical paradigm views nature as a perfect machine governed by mathematical laws..
But once that idea is accepted nature is no longer a living organism, it's now a machine left for our manipulation and mutilation...
Descartes extended his mechanistic view of matter to living organisms. Plants and animals were considered simply machines; human beings were inhabited by a rational soul that was connected with the body through the pineal gland(the supposed source of DMT no less) in the center of the brain..
This picture of a perfect world-machine implied an external creator; a monarchical god who ruled the world from above by imposing his divine law on it.
The physical phenomena themselves were not thought to be divine in any sense, and when science made it more and more difficult to believe in such a god, the divine disappeared completely from the scientific world view, leaving behind the spiritual vacuum that has become characteristic of the mainstream of our culture
The philosophical basis of this secularization of nature was the Cartesian division between spirit and matter. So the world was believed to be a mechanical system that could be described objectively, without ever mentioning the human observer, and such an objective description of nature became the ideal of all science.
Boom
Newtonian theory flourished under these conditions.
It was able to explain the motion of the planets, moons, and comets down to the smallest details, as well as the flow of the tides and various other phenomena related to gravity..everything could be broken down mechanically and analysed.
Newton believed atoms to be the hard and solid building blocks of matter and this worked well for awhile...much like the churchs definition of reality did way back when..
So the Newtonian mechanistic world view defined reality until new thoughts and questions began to stretch beyond the limits of this paradigm..Jean Baptiste Lamarck proposed all living beings have evolved from earlier, simpler forms under the pressure of their environment and a few decades later Darwin articulated his assertion and boom...God was dead again and it was seen that the universe was far more complex than Descartes and Newton had imagined. Nevertheless, the basic ideas underlying Newtonian physics, though insufficient to explain all natural phenomena, were still believed to be correct until relativity and quantum theory shattered everthing.
The paradoxes encountered by physicists as they delved deeper into matter forced them to think in completely new ways..they were finding electrons to be particles on Mondays and Wednesdays and waves on Tuesdays and Thursdays..and the more they attempted to clarify this the sharper the paradoxes became..
From there emerged the systems view that the universe is no longer seen as a machine, made up of a multitude of objects, but instead has to be pictured as one indivisible, dynamic whole whose parts are essentially interrelated and can be understood only as patterns of a cosmic process.
This is a belief that has held strong in Eastern mysticsm for centuries..It took science awhile longer to get there..
So then we got busy with atoms and soon discovered that far from being the hard, solid particles of time-honored theory, atoms turned out to consist of vast regions of space in which extremely small particles - the electrons - moved around the nucleus. A few years later quantum theory made it clear that even the subatomic particles - the electrons and the protons and neutrons in the nucleus - were nothing like the solid objects of classical physics..Depending on how we look at them, they appear sometimes as particles, sometimes as waves; and this dual nature is also exhibited by light, which can take the form of electromagnetic waves or particles.
The situation seemed hopelessly paradoxical until it was realized that the terms 'particle' and 'wave' refer to classical concepts which are not fully adequate to describe atomic phenomena. An electron is neither a particle nor a wave, but it may show particle-like aspects in some situations and wave-like aspects in others..
This means that neither the electron nor any other atomic 'object' has any intrinsic properties independent of its environment. The properties it shows - particle-like or wave-like - will depend on the experimental situation, that is, on the apparatus it is forced to interact with...completely subjective.
So Heisenberg came up with his uncertainty principle..a set of mathematical relations that determine the extent to which classical concepts can be applied to atomic phenomena; these relations stake out the limits of human imagination in the atomic world.
The more we emphasize one aspect in our description the more the other aspect becomes uncertain, and the precise relation between the two is given by the uncertainty principle.
Niels Bohr introduced the notion of complementarity to further clarify this uncertainty.
He considered the particle picture and the wave picture two complementary descriptions of the same reality, each of them only partly correct and having a limited range of application. Both pictures are needed to give a full account of the atomic reality, and both are to be applied within the limitations set by the uncertainty principle
(yin & yang)
At the subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty at definite places, but rather shows "tendencies to exist,' and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times and in definite ways, but rather show 'tendencies to occur.'
At the subatomic level, the solid material objects of classical physics dissolve into wave-like patterns of probabilities..
The deeper into nature we probed the more we discovered it is not made up of things but rather interconnections..there are no things to speak of.
The universe, then, is a unified whole that can to some extent be divided into separate parts, into objects made of molecules and atoms, themselves made of particles. But here, at the level of particles, the notion of separate parts breaks down. The subatomic particles - and therefore, ultimately, all parts of the universe - cannot be understood as isolated entities but must be defined through their inter-relations.
In the ordinary; macroscopic world nonlocal connections are relatively unimportant, and thus we can speak of separate objects and formulate the laws of physics in terms of certainties. But as we go to smaller dimensions, the influence of nonlocal connections becomes stronger; here the laws of physics can be formulated only in terms of probabilities, and it becomes more and more difficult to separate any part of the universe from the whole.
The patterns scientists observe in nature are intimately connected with the patterns of their minds; with their concepts, thoughts, and values. The results obtained conditioned by their frame of mind which means scientists are morally resonsible for their work..
The closer you look at a rock the more alive it will appear to be..
All the material objects in our environment are made of atoms that link up with each other in various ways to form an enormous variety of molecular structures which are not rigid and motionless but vibrate according to their temperature and in harmony with the thermal vibrations of their environment.
Einsteins relativity theory reveals the extent of the dynamic nature of matter..the being of matter and its activity cannot be separated; they are but different aspects of the same space-time reality.
Atoms consist of particles, and these particles are not made of any material stuff..what they are, or at least what we observe them to be is dynamic patterns continually changing into one another - the continuous dance of energy.
The dance of Shiva...
Viewing the surrounding environment as the cosmic dance of energy that it is may be the closest description to an objective reality possible in our language..though the very nature of the universe itself seems to defy any possibility of a completely objective thing existing in any form..
'Every particle consists of all other particles.' not in the classical sense but rather they 'involve' one another in a way that can be given a precise mathematical meaning but cannot easily be expressed in words.
IMO we are at a point which cannot be accurately described by traditional methods and language..
Sooner or later, nuclear physics and the psychology of the unconscious will draw closer together as both of them, independently of one another and from opposite directions, push forward into transcendental territory . . . Psyche cannot be totally different from matter, for how otherwise could it move matter? And matter cannot be alien to psyche, for how else could matter produce psyche? Psyche and matter exist in the same world, and each partakes of the other, otherwise any reciprocal action would be impossible. If research could only advance far enough, therefore, we should arrive at an ultimate agreement between physical and psychological concepts. Our present attempts may be bold, but I believe they are on the right lines. - Carl Gustav Jung, Aion.
Psychotherapy and consciousness exploration will be the next revolutionary fields.
We're through the looking glass here people.
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