Tuesday, May 04, 2004
A Bold Undertaking
While Googling the words “metaphysics and physics,” I stumbled upon a site which is named On Truth and Reality. The site is run by Geoff Haselhurst, who currently resides in South Western Australia. An area of the world I do recall fondly from my visits there. Anyway, Haselhurst’s site is chock full, and I mean chock full, of links dealing with philosophy, evolution. physics, metaphysics and theology, not to mention being peppered with quotes from famous minds. It’s worth poking around in.
Here’s the introductory statement from On Truth and Reality.
"I must admit that I have spent considerable time thinking about writing an introduction to this website on Truth and Reality.
The problem is perplexing, yet simple.
I am a philosopher / metaphysicist, and these subjects (along with all human knowledge) are founded on Reality, this being the source of all Truth and Wisdom.
The problem is that I am now quite convinced that Reality has been discovered, that this is very important to humanity, and yet at the same time I realise that very few people will believe this, or make any effort to understand it to determine its truth. (And I accept there are many valid reasons for this apparent apathy and cynicism.)
I figure though, that the best I can do as a philosopher is to write the truth as clearly, concisely, simply and sensibly as I am able, then I have done my job, and it is up to you to make up your own mind as to its truth and importance.
So lets start by very briefly summarising the main idea.
Currently we represent Matter as particles generating forces that act on other particles in space and time. This discrete particle conception of matter is incomplete (as Einstein realised) but his error was to try and describe reality as a pure field theory (he failed). Instead, we must combine the waves discovered by Schrodinger and de Broglie (foundations of Quantum Theory) with the Absolute Space assumed by Newton, to describe matter as Spherical Standing Waves in Space. Thus the Wave-Center of the Spherical Standing Wave causes the particle effect of matter, the interaction of the spherical In and Out Waves cause the ‘force fields’.
Most significantly, we are describing reality from One thing, Space, and its properties as a Wave Medium, rather than from Many things, Matter, and their properties of generating fields (that cause the effect of Space, though how particles do this is never explained). This then explains Hume’s problem of Causation and Necessary Connection, as it is the One thing Space, that connects the many things matter (as spherical waves in space). Now I realise it is a little confusing to begin, but it is very simple once known. (Please see below for further details.)
Most importantly, as our world now faces many crises, it seems to me that this knowledge of reality, if it is true, is critical to humanity and our future survival.
Unfortunately, we now live in a post-modern culture that does not believe it is possible to know Reality, and thus to have Absolute Truth. All knowledge is relative to cultural constructions, which are ultimately merely ideas, not real things existing in themselves (Kantian Idealism). I suspect it would be ‘academic suicide’ to even use these terms of Truth and Reality in a title as I have done (though they accurately reflect the content). You are asking to be branded a ‘crackpot’, either ignorant of our current ‘enlightened post-modern’ knowledge, and thus deluded, or allowing ego and imagination to sway reason and good sense.
In my defence, which is really a defence of Philosophy and Science, I reply;
Over the past ten years I have taken the time to study the great minds of human history (there are many beautiful and brilliant minds to read). This becomes clear as you read this website, which is filled with thousands of quotes from many great minds over thousands of years.
Now this in no way means that what I write is true, my point is more that by presenting the existing knowledge from the original source, explaining the problems and how they can be solved, this then allows you to make up your own mind as to the validity of the argument. (As I see philosophy and science, you can’t tell someone the truth, but you can show them how to work it out for themselves.)
And based upon this knowledge of philosophy, physics and metaphysics, it is now clear to me that the Metaphysics of Space and Motion and the Wave Structure of Matter is a far better way to describe reality than the current paradigm of particles and forces in space and time.
Anyway, the purpose of this introduction is to encourage you to take the time to browse the brief summaries of articles (sorted by subject) which follow this introduction. If this knowledge of the Wave Structure of Matter is correct then it is clearly very important to Humanity, and has the power to solve many of our problems, both in the spheres of human knowledge, and how we are to live on Earth (without destroying ourselves and the Nature which created us, and upon which we depend). As I see it, the world needs our help, and this help must be founded on the truth, not just our good intentions, if it is to actually work and make things better.
For now, this is my brief / abrupt introduction. (It is a work in progress!, so please write and tell me your thoughts so I can improve it.)"
