The solution is simple - but would it be accepted?

[davidfell@gmail.com]

With all the billions of phenomena in the universe there has to a simple solution to explain everything and it will has to be very generic and basic to complete such a complex task.

Physicists have set the rules of what the solution should be, so will they ever accept a simple solution which will explain everything.

But it is not only physicists who are guilty, everyone has expectations of what it should be rather than what it simply is.

[baudrunner]

Again, mathematics is the holy grail. (I am being sarcastic)

The truth can be compared to the trunk of the tree of knowledge. If one stays with the trunk and does not digress then more truth is more easily acquired. Simple explanations resolve problems. But when one diverts from the truth, ie. branches out, the further one digresses, the more one leans on mathematics to prove the untrue facts that one encounters along the way. More digression leads to more math, until the point of theory is lost to the reader in a jumble of equations and numbers that only serve to confuse, bewilder, and impress. There is no denying that there is knowledge there and facts abounding, but facts and knowledge do not always represent the truth. In my experience, the less sense one makes, the less one has resorted to practical explanation and the more one has turned to mathematical modelling. There are only too many clipboard carrying, white lab coat wearing wanabees who will shove their notes under your nose and point to the math but when asked for a simple explanation only draw a blank. They just can't. They don't get my respect.

[michellemfry]

The blind man doesn't seem so blind when he is calculating something. I agree.

[mkirkpatrick]

I agree the solution is very simple,all is mind and mind is all,thats it,will that be accepted,no of course not,why,because it sounds too Simple,some would go as far as to say an over-simpllication of reality?What does it really matter?we are the embodiments of the answer,the solution in livingform?
kind regards michael.

[harmonygirl]

interesting point baud. Michael, you took the words right out of my mouth! Simplicity is rarely recognized at first.

[mkirkpatrick]

harmonygirl;
You are right of course,if the answer is there in front of us,for reasons best un-known to ourselves,we turn and look the other way? But just why do you think that is! Have we some how fooled ourselves into thinking that only complex solutions are right?
kind regards michael.

[harmonygirl]

Michael, I think that our puny human brains can't cope with alot of the concepts involved in understanding everything and also we fundamentally and deliberately fracture our thinking so that we divide into 'subjects' things that are best viewed holistically. Like the division between science and art, math and music, etc. I am still reading Godel, Escher and Bach and that guy got it. So did Ayn Rand (NOT my favourite!) in When Atlas shrugged. I think it's actually a coping device, so that we can allow ourselves not to feel insignificant.

[mkirkpatrick]

harmonygirl
I think that you have made quite a valid point there,many thanks.
regards michael.

[Lloyd Gillespie]

Right on track, harmonygirl. Check out Ayn Rand's epistemology. Part of the answers are there. Also physicist mathematicians have made the same points about music and logic - it works isomorphically, i.e., the same but different. It's a lot outside classical logic, but it's, I feel, where we must also be looking. Such elastic logic can take in a much larger picture of the whole.

Regards,
Lloyd

[PoPpAScience]

Harmonygirl, our puny brains can cope with the understanding of everything. But ones brain must have no reservations about what it is trying to understand. One must draw all subject into the brain, like they would a breath of fresh air into the lungs.

The theory of everything can only be found by a mind that has no preconceived conclusions. A mind that studies all, but accepts nothing as absolute, only another piece to the puzzle.