Scientific research has found the material universe to be of a certain form and an intricate organisation on the small scale. Yet the standard model of modern science only describes push or pull forces as causes to explain how the universe is the way that it is. So that universally, the world appears to consists just of matter/energy and these forces.
Present physics describes matter and light and other energy as possessing a wave property that can be regarded as universal. Yet there is no sufficient cause and effect explanation of how this quantum wave occurs. While the question could be asked Does this quantum wave not need to exist for matter to be and remain in all its forms as atoms, molecules and living organisms?
So that matter is found to consist almost all of the space separating subatomic particles as its smallest parts, and it can be thought that matter could have no form at all without these component parts also possessing an extended wave property of behaviour.
Saturday, 19 September 2009
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Manifesto for the Real World Scientific Revolution
We hold the following to be the case:
(1) Given that from what is called the standard model of quantum and particle theory it can be assumed that the universe consists just of matter/energy and the forces, this theory does not make sense. And given any assumption that the known forces are all the causes that act universally, no theory can be successfully developed that generally explains how the universe is the way that it is.
(2) How an invisible cause could act universally in addition to the forces cannot be demonstrated by measurement and calculation from any evidence found of matter and energy on the smallest scale. Nor can it be demonstrated that this cause acts in the world from any such evidence found of atoms, molecules, their subatomic components or photons of radiant energy when examined alone. This is a cause that, rather than attracting or repelling objects with some measurable strength, acts so that matter can remain in its naturally organised forms despite the action of the forces, and produces the effects that are called quantum wave, spin and entanglement. And only by sufficiently justifying and describing enough details of this cause by examining together enough available natural evidence of where it acts can it be explained how matter can exist at all while consisting almost all of the space be between its subatomic components as particles.
(3) Modern physics lost its rational scientific soul at the fifth Solvay Conference in October 1927 where the ideology of indetermism was first propounded (and subsequently incorporated into the language of all quantum physics textbooks) in what was to be called the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. The 1927 conference was also where Louis de Broglie's pilot wave interpretation of quantum mechanics was rejected.
(4) The closest to a true account of quantum behaviour and its cause yet to be published was propounded in two papers by David Bohm entitled "A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of 'Hidden Variables' I & II"(1952). This account was a more sophisticatd version of De Broglie's Pilot Wave account, and was shown to be consistent with all the experimental evidence from which the original quantum mechanics was derived. This account demonstrated that the uncertainties and probabilites of measurement in quantum meechanics could be understood as limtations in any experimental set up, rather than real properties of quantum behaviour beyond the experimental results. And these observed results could be accounted for by quantum objects being both waves and particles with definable trajectoreies while in motion. As such Bohm's account can be described as a determinate nonlocal causal interpretation of quantum mechanics.. http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v85/i2/p166_1 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-bohm/
(5) The probabilities and uncertainties of measurement of quantum behaviour that led to the Copenhagen interpretation were a diversion from the fact that matter had been discovered to consist of so little of of anything that could be called material objects. So that just this discovery in 1909 of the minute atomic nucleus - which has since been measured to be about a 10,000th the diametre of the atom - was a clear indication the matter needed to consist of more than mere particles. Then the discovery of the electron wave property and Schrodinger's wave equation were clear indications that the quantum wave needed to exist universally as a real property for matter to exist at all as atoms and molecules.
(6) The present Standard Model of quantum and particle theory is severely limited by its lack of a causal explanation of quantum wave, spin and entanglement behaviour, and its description of virtual particle exchange and vacuum energy is not a true account of what occurs on the small scale beyond the measurable results of experiments. This is so because quantum field theory assumes that Heisenbers's Uncertainty Principle applies to the behaviour of quantum objects in motion. The Standard Model is thus successful as a mathematical scheme that accounts for many properties of matter by describing quantum behaviour just as directly detected and measured. But this model does not explain the quantum behaviour itself, and thus how the natural form and organisation of matter in general is possible.
(7) The only possible empirically verifiable account that may be called a theory of everything will be a natural explanation of everything that cannot be explained by the action of the forces alone. This account could be more accurately called a General Theory of Natural Organisation, where a determinate nonlocal causal quantum hypothesis is supported by an examination of sufficient large scale natural evidence, and thus demonstrates in enough detail from its observable effects how a cause acts universally, constantly and nonlocally in addition to all the forces.
(8) In a General Theory of Natural Organisation the evidence examined on the large scale will be of available astronomical findings in relation to the evolution of the presently observed large scale structure of the cosmos and the formation of stars and planetary systems, and living organisms in relation to the nature of the mind as a part of a nonlocal cause, the evolution of consciousness and general features of organic behaviour. This general theory may be regarded as a final explanation of how the universe that includes living organisms is the way that it is, but is capable of indefinite further development.
(9) The General Theory of Natural Organisation may be regarded as a scientific explanation which demonstrates that the real universe makes enough sense of life from a human point of view and will allow human beings to make more sense of their lives by their actions.
(1) Given that from what is called the standard model of quantum and particle theory it can be assumed that the universe consists just of matter/energy and the forces, this theory does not make sense. And given any assumption that the known forces are all the causes that act universally, no theory can be successfully developed that generally explains how the universe is the way that it is.
(2) How an invisible cause could act universally in addition to the forces cannot be demonstrated by measurement and calculation from any evidence found of matter and energy on the smallest scale. Nor can it be demonstrated that this cause acts in the world from any such evidence found of atoms, molecules, their subatomic components or photons of radiant energy when examined alone. This is a cause that, rather than attracting or repelling objects with some measurable strength, acts so that matter can remain in its naturally organised forms despite the action of the forces, and produces the effects that are called quantum wave, spin and entanglement. And only by sufficiently justifying and describing enough details of this cause by examining together enough available natural evidence of where it acts can it be explained how matter can exist at all while consisting almost all of the space be between its subatomic components as particles.
(3) Modern physics lost its rational scientific soul at the fifth Solvay Conference in October 1927 where the ideology of indetermism was first propounded (and subsequently incorporated into the language of all quantum physics textbooks) in what was to be called the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. The 1927 conference was also where Louis de Broglie's pilot wave interpretation of quantum mechanics was rejected.
(4) The closest to a true account of quantum behaviour and its cause yet to be published was propounded in two papers by David Bohm entitled "A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of 'Hidden Variables' I & II"(1952). This account was a more sophisticatd version of De Broglie's Pilot Wave account, and was shown to be consistent with all the experimental evidence from which the original quantum mechanics was derived. This account demonstrated that the uncertainties and probabilites of measurement in quantum meechanics could be understood as limtations in any experimental set up, rather than real properties of quantum behaviour beyond the experimental results. And these observed results could be accounted for by quantum objects being both waves and particles with definable trajectoreies while in motion. As such Bohm's account can be described as a determinate nonlocal causal interpretation of quantum mechanics.. http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v85/i2/p166_1 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-bohm/
(5) The probabilities and uncertainties of measurement of quantum behaviour that led to the Copenhagen interpretation were a diversion from the fact that matter had been discovered to consist of so little of of anything that could be called material objects. So that just this discovery in 1909 of the minute atomic nucleus - which has since been measured to be about a 10,000th the diametre of the atom - was a clear indication the matter needed to consist of more than mere particles. Then the discovery of the electron wave property and Schrodinger's wave equation were clear indications that the quantum wave needed to exist universally as a real property for matter to exist at all as atoms and molecules.
(6) The present Standard Model of quantum and particle theory is severely limited by its lack of a causal explanation of quantum wave, spin and entanglement behaviour, and its description of virtual particle exchange and vacuum energy is not a true account of what occurs on the small scale beyond the measurable results of experiments. This is so because quantum field theory assumes that Heisenbers's Uncertainty Principle applies to the behaviour of quantum objects in motion. The Standard Model is thus successful as a mathematical scheme that accounts for many properties of matter by describing quantum behaviour just as directly detected and measured. But this model does not explain the quantum behaviour itself, and thus how the natural form and organisation of matter in general is possible.
(7) The only possible empirically verifiable account that may be called a theory of everything will be a natural explanation of everything that cannot be explained by the action of the forces alone. This account could be more accurately called a General Theory of Natural Organisation, where a determinate nonlocal causal quantum hypothesis is supported by an examination of sufficient large scale natural evidence, and thus demonstrates in enough detail from its observable effects how a cause acts universally, constantly and nonlocally in addition to all the forces.
(8) In a General Theory of Natural Organisation the evidence examined on the large scale will be of available astronomical findings in relation to the evolution of the presently observed large scale structure of the cosmos and the formation of stars and planetary systems, and living organisms in relation to the nature of the mind as a part of a nonlocal cause, the evolution of consciousness and general features of organic behaviour. This general theory may be regarded as a final explanation of how the universe that includes living organisms is the way that it is, but is capable of indefinite further development.
(9) The General Theory of Natural Organisation may be regarded as a scientific explanation which demonstrates that the real universe makes enough sense of life from a human point of view and will allow human beings to make more sense of their lives by their actions.
Thursday, 13 August 2009
The Real World Revolution
There have been industrial and technological revolutions and those for democracy or based on a theory of history. But no revolution has been brought about by pure scientific knowledge and that has really changed the status quo. So the findings of Copernicus, Newton and Darwin may have changed the minds of many but have not, just as such, led people to change their world in any radical way. And although it could be said that Marxism may not have come about without the influence of scientific findings, the influence of Marxist thought itself has now much diminished.
But suppose there could be a scentific discovery that clearly showed that the real universe that includes all life on Earth is not as it appears to be?
Such a discovery could be regarded as a completion of the quantum revolution, which so far has only really brought about technological change. For given the discoveries of matter and energy on the smallest scale it can be asked how can matter in any form, including human beings and all other living organisms be and remain composed out of its smallest parts? Could this question only be answered by discovering and describing enough details of an invisible cause acting in addition to the forces? And could such a cause also act in the universe on the very large scale?
From the scientific findings of the natural world so far it can seem very much as though the world is governed just by the push or pull forces and that the universe has no real purpose from a human point of view. But what if a discovery and description of a further universal cause from its effects showed that a viable cosmos could last indefinitely, and finally revealed the true nature of the mind and consciousness...?
But suppose there could be a scentific discovery that clearly showed that the real universe that includes all life on Earth is not as it appears to be?
Such a discovery could be regarded as a completion of the quantum revolution, which so far has only really brought about technological change. For given the discoveries of matter and energy on the smallest scale it can be asked how can matter in any form, including human beings and all other living organisms be and remain composed out of its smallest parts? Could this question only be answered by discovering and describing enough details of an invisible cause acting in addition to the forces? And could such a cause also act in the universe on the very large scale?
From the scientific findings of the natural world so far it can seem very much as though the world is governed just by the push or pull forces and that the universe has no real purpose from a human point of view. But what if a discovery and description of a further universal cause from its effects showed that a viable cosmos could last indefinitely, and finally revealed the true nature of the mind and consciousness...?
Thursday, 6 August 2009
The trouble with a physics of the forces alone ll
Such a physics can construct the most successful of all scientific theories in the form of the Standard Model of quantum and particle theory and yet cannot explain how matter or the energy it radiates exists or is subatomically organised.
Why not? Because the theory does not explain how matter and radiant energy possesses behaviour that is called quantum wave, spin and entanglement.
Thus, like atoms and molecules themselves, the Standard Model is virtually hollow at the core without an explanation of how matter persists while being composed of so little that can be detected as material objects and be organised into elements and compounds. But instead this model tries to interpret and calculate the quantum wave out of existence, or argue that its explanation is of no significance or has already been explained by the quantum theory.
Whereas it can be asked:
How can any theory that, like the Standard Model, assumes the action of the forces alone, explain quantum wave spin and entanglement?
How can matter consist almost all of the space between its smallest or subatomic parts without the quantum wave?
Surely isn't the quantum wave something in addition to the forces that cannot be explained by them since the wave allows atoms and molecules to remain in their forms despite the action of the forces and can be measured when the subatomic particle are not components of atoms and molecules?
Why not? Because the theory does not explain how matter and radiant energy possesses behaviour that is called quantum wave, spin and entanglement.
Thus, like atoms and molecules themselves, the Standard Model is virtually hollow at the core without an explanation of how matter persists while being composed of so little that can be detected as material objects and be organised into elements and compounds. But instead this model tries to interpret and calculate the quantum wave out of existence, or argue that its explanation is of no significance or has already been explained by the quantum theory.
Whereas it can be asked:
How can any theory that, like the Standard Model, assumes the action of the forces alone, explain quantum wave spin and entanglement?
How can matter consist almost all of the space between its smallest or subatomic parts without the quantum wave?
Surely isn't the quantum wave something in addition to the forces that cannot be explained by them since the wave allows atoms and molecules to remain in their forms despite the action of the forces and can be measured when the subatomic particle are not components of atoms and molecules?
Friday, 29 May 2009
Self discovery
Is there an 'I' behind the body that's me?
Is it something real but invisible
That's this 'I' behind the body
And the world that I can see?
Could there be a scientific discovery
That could find and show
What it is that's invisible
Behind the world that is visible
And the body that is me?
And which could be something
That needs to be
For there to be
A universal reality,
And despite the forces
Acting in the world we can see,
hear, smell, taste or touch
of matter and energy?
Is it something real but invisible
That's this 'I' behind the body
And the world that I can see?
Could there be a scientific discovery
That could find and show
What it is that's invisible
Behind the world that is visible
And the body that is me?
And which could be something
That needs to be
For there to be
A universal reality,
And despite the forces
Acting in the world we can see,
hear, smell, taste or touch
of matter and energy?
A universal cause for concern
A century ago this year a scientific experiment was performed revealing, for the first time, that matter consists almost all of the space between its universal components, the electron and the atomic nucleus as particles. And it can be concluded that there is still no generally recognised theory that explains how matter, and thus the observable universe, can so exist and be naturally organised into atoms, molecules and living organisms, and while the forces act within and upon it.
So although present quantum theory can mathematically describe principles of behaviour that the atomic orbitals of electrons obey, these principles do not explain how this behaviour is possible and thus how matter can be solid and remain in its forms despite the action of all the forces. Such an explanation can be considered to require a sufficiently detailed and empircally justified cause and effect account of how electrons and other quantum objects possess their wave, spin and entanglement behaviour.
But then for such an explanatory account to be possible the thought could be that there would need to more evidence that can be examined of where an invisible cause could act than anything that could be described from the evidence found on the smallest scale of matter and the energy it can radiate. While to discover how matter can be and remain in its forms as the atoms and molecules of the elements and compounds and of the species of living organisms, there would need to be an invisible cause that would act universally in a different way to that of any force.
So although present quantum theory can mathematically describe principles of behaviour that the atomic orbitals of electrons obey, these principles do not explain how this behaviour is possible and thus how matter can be solid and remain in its forms despite the action of all the forces. Such an explanation can be considered to require a sufficiently detailed and empircally justified cause and effect account of how electrons and other quantum objects possess their wave, spin and entanglement behaviour.
But then for such an explanatory account to be possible the thought could be that there would need to more evidence that can be examined of where an invisible cause could act than anything that could be described from the evidence found on the smallest scale of matter and the energy it can radiate. While to discover how matter can be and remain in its forms as the atoms and molecules of the elements and compounds and of the species of living organisms, there would need to be an invisible cause that would act universally in a different way to that of any force.
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
For a world where mind really matters 1
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Ask where are the contents of conscious experience just as the thoughts, emotions, sensations and sensory perceptions one can have? And the answer could be that these subjective experiences cannot be found anywhere in the body or the world experienced. So the thought might be that to experience one's body and the world there would somehow need to be more than anything that can be found anywhere in the world experienced.
Then consider how the findings of modern science can be thought to indicate that all the causes that could be found to act universally in the world experienced that includes one's body, are of a kind that can be described as pushing or pulling objects as they produce their effects. These are causes that have all been called forces, including those that could be described as surrounding objects as forces of attraction or repulsion and that have also been called fundamental interactions.
The scientific findings have also indicated matter in general, as the atoms and molecules of the elements and compound of inanimate matter and so, also, all living organisms, consists almost all of the space between its component parts that have been called electrons and atomic nuclei. And the powerful charge force that produces electrical and magnetic effects could be measured to attract electrons towards nuclei and repel between electrons. So that all matter as atoms. molecules and living organisms could be thought to remain in their physical forms despite the action of all the forces. And one can also ask: given, it seems, just the charge force acting within all such matter as it surrunds electrons and and nuclei, what causes matter to be in all its various and particular forms as the elements and compounds of inanimate matter and the species of living organisms that include human beings?
So for matter just to remain in all these forms as atoms molecules and living organisms, it may be reasoned that, somehow, a cause would need to act universally and constantly in addition to all the forces just so as to maintain or conserve all the forms and organisation of matter. This would be a cause that could not be described as pulling or pushing or attracting or repelling objects. So that by not being such a push or pull force, this further cause would have no strength of effect that could be measured to decrease or cease with increasing distance between objects. And such, it may be thought, could be a cause of an effect that has been called quantum entanglement. This is a kind of effect that could be measured to occur at a distance between objects that include electrons as the subatomic components of atoms.
Thus, unlike the effect of any force, quantum entanglement could be described as arising just from a fixed relationship between certain forms of behaviour of objects that can be measured as a correlation. So that between matter particles that include pairs of electrons such behaviour can be described in terms of different directions of spin. And the measured relationship could be called spin-up in one component and whereby the other component would be measured to be in the opposite spin-down direction.
Hence although the entanglement effect has no measurable strength the thought could be that for it to be measured, a cause would need to act so as to maintain or conserve the fixed relationship of behaviour between the objects measured. And, by producing effects that have no measurable strength that reduces or ceases with increasing distance between objects, such a cause could not, like all the fundamental interactions, be described as producing its effect as it surrounds objects. The conclusion can be, therefore, that if the effect of quantum entanglement has any cause, this could not be described as acting in the world experienced.
Also, given that the quantum entanglement effect could have a cause that does not surround objects, this could also be true of quantum wave behaviour. So that, while the entanglement effect can be regarded as evidence of there being a distinct cause that maintains the organisation of the behaviour of subatomic components in relation to each other or one another, the wave property of electrons could maintain the overall form of atoms and molecules.
So what of all living organisms including human beings? Could there be an invisible cause acting in addition to the forces so as to maintain or conserve their material organisation and overall physical forms? And could this be the cause of conscious experience? And then what of a cause that could be thought to act universally upon matter from outside the world experienced, how could this be so?
See related blog.
Ask where are the contents of conscious experience just as the thoughts, emotions, sensations and sensory perceptions one can have? And the answer could be that these subjective experiences cannot be found anywhere in the body or the world experienced. So the thought might be that to experience one's body and the world there would somehow need to be more than anything that can be found anywhere in the world experienced.
Then consider how the findings of modern science can be thought to indicate that all the causes that could be found to act universally in the world experienced that includes one's body, are of a kind that can be described as pushing or pulling objects as they produce their effects. These are causes that have all been called forces, including those that could be described as surrounding objects as forces of attraction or repulsion and that have also been called fundamental interactions.
The scientific findings have also indicated matter in general, as the atoms and molecules of the elements and compound of inanimate matter and so, also, all living organisms, consists almost all of the space between its component parts that have been called electrons and atomic nuclei. And the powerful charge force that produces electrical and magnetic effects could be measured to attract electrons towards nuclei and repel between electrons. So that all matter as atoms. molecules and living organisms could be thought to remain in their physical forms despite the action of all the forces. And one can also ask: given, it seems, just the charge force acting within all such matter as it surrunds electrons and and nuclei, what causes matter to be in all its various and particular forms as the elements and compounds of inanimate matter and the species of living organisms that include human beings?
So for matter just to remain in all these forms as atoms molecules and living organisms, it may be reasoned that, somehow, a cause would need to act universally and constantly in addition to all the forces just so as to maintain or conserve all the forms and organisation of matter. This would be a cause that could not be described as pulling or pushing or attracting or repelling objects. So that by not being such a push or pull force, this further cause would have no strength of effect that could be measured to decrease or cease with increasing distance between objects. And such, it may be thought, could be a cause of an effect that has been called quantum entanglement. This is a kind of effect that could be measured to occur at a distance between objects that include electrons as the subatomic components of atoms.
Thus, unlike the effect of any force, quantum entanglement could be described as arising just from a fixed relationship between certain forms of behaviour of objects that can be measured as a correlation. So that between matter particles that include pairs of electrons such behaviour can be described in terms of different directions of spin. And the measured relationship could be called spin-up in one component and whereby the other component would be measured to be in the opposite spin-down direction.
Hence although the entanglement effect has no measurable strength the thought could be that for it to be measured, a cause would need to act so as to maintain or conserve the fixed relationship of behaviour between the objects measured. And, by producing effects that have no measurable strength that reduces or ceases with increasing distance between objects, such a cause could not, like all the fundamental interactions, be described as producing its effect as it surrounds objects. The conclusion can be, therefore, that if the effect of quantum entanglement has any cause, this could not be described as acting in the world experienced.
Also, given that the quantum entanglement effect could have a cause that does not surround objects, this could also be true of quantum wave behaviour. So that, while the entanglement effect can be regarded as evidence of there being a distinct cause that maintains the organisation of the behaviour of subatomic components in relation to each other or one another, the wave property of electrons could maintain the overall form of atoms and molecules.
So what of all living organisms including human beings? Could there be an invisible cause acting in addition to the forces so as to maintain or conserve their material organisation and overall physical forms? And could this be the cause of conscious experience? And then what of a cause that could be thought to act universally upon matter from outside the world experienced, how could this be so?
See related blog.
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