[Bob Campbell]

I have enormous respect for Einstein's intellectual integrity. At the time when he introduced his special and general theories of relativity it must have seemed ludicrous to consider a discontinuous universe possible. Planck called his universal quantum of action an act of desperation and no one today claims to fully understand quantum mechanics. It created a formal rift between mathematical physics and the philosophy of physics that deeply disturbed Einstein and other major pioneers of modern physics. Quantum physics had taken a turn towards statistical methods and as it did Einstein refused to work on it further. The Bohr-Einstein debates are legend. He refused to believe that God plays at dice and was sidelined from the mainstream as a result.

It is a measure of his intellectual integrity that at the end of his life he would draw into question his own life's work. By suggesting that physics could not be based on continuous structures, he was pulling the rug out from under General Relativty but also from under the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics as well as other interpretations. This infers that he glimsed a possible route to an acceptable solution to the many dichotomous interpretations of physics.

This alternative route is a discontinuous universe that is nevertheless holistically integrated in the way it works. It is a new approach to an accurate understanding of the Cosmic Order that is not fully reducible to mathematics or language. It is a method of facilitating intuitive insight into the roots of meaning that underly language. I just want to dispell any suggestion that I am in any way critical of Einstein's enormous contributions.

Best regards
Bob Campbell