Sunday, November 8, 2015

Physicists Get Metaphysical

The premise is reality changes from the fact of observation.  This has been a fundamental premise of my own but it wasn't based on physics.  However, some Australian scientists have taken Heisenberg Uncertainty out to a whole new dimension because they can prove their observations change the behavior of the atoms being observed.  (The Mind Unleashed:  New Mind-blowing Experiment Confirms That Reality Doesn’t Exist If You Are Not Looking at It)

Please do forgive their clickbait title as the content of the article is real.  As you read, keep in mind there has been no response as yet from other physicists and it will be interesting to see what comes.  Down here on the ground as non-physicist, we think it looks highly damn cool.


Lately, Stephen Hawking has blown his cork with 'there is no God' and statements of that nature but that kind of absolutism is useless for metaphysics in the same way as Ben Carson is useless for history lessons despite his apparent excellence in neurosurgery.


Here at the Rockhouse, we have always regarded the nature of reality as fluid insofar as that which seems the most solid can evaporate easily (e.g. bridges fall down, etc).  The things which seem most insubstantial (e.g. love, music, etc) are things which stay alive for centuries.  Even today, people think of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor just as we will of Helen of Troy and any types of story of that nature.

Seeing the confirmation of the apparent fluidity of reality by hard-core physicists is most intriguing ... but always wait for the rebuttal because the one thing on which you can always rely from scientists is they will argue.  But that's another demonstration of the fluidity of reality from where we sit down here.

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