Anthologized, Narrated & Authored by Geoff Haselhurst and Karene Jade Howie
Introduction to Physics
Summary of Website Knowledge: On Philosophy Metaphysics & Physics
Wisdom from Truth and Reality
Currently Physics (and thus all human knowledge) is founded on the concepts of particles and forces in Space and Time, which assumes the existence of four separate things. This causes many problems for Humanity because the necessary connection between these things is unknown. The Metaphysics of Space and Motion and the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) solves these problems by describing Reality in terms of One thing, Space, existing with the Properties of a Wave Medium. Matter is formed from Spherical Standing Waves in Space which cause the 'particle' effect at their Wave Center. Time is due to the Wave Motion (activity) of Space. Forces are caused by the interaction of the Spherical In and Out Waves with other matter in Space which changes the location of the Wave-Center (and which we 'see' as a 'force accelerating a particle').
This rather abrupt summary is explained in detail in the sections which follow (use Anchor Links or scroll to headings below).
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This rough diagram shows how the In-Waves and Out-Waves form a Standing Wave around the Wave-Center 'particle'.
The Three Main Purposes of this Website
i) To allow people to understand what Reality is, thus to have an absolute foundation for working out the Truth. This allows us to solve many of the problems of Physics, Philosophy, Metaphysics and Theology (and there are many problems caused by the current particle conception of matter, as modern academia well realises).
ii) To realise that the world we experience (our senses, which are a representation of the mind) are incomplete and deceptive. That when we see things as being separate and discrete (like the human body), this is an illusion (naive real). In Reality matter (and thus humans) are structures of the universe, thus we are all subtly interconnected not only to the world around us, but to all other matter in the universe. This explains the foundations of the ecology of life on Earth, and why the preservation of Nature is critical for our future survival.
iii) To share this knowledge with others such that many people can work together to correct past errors both in human knowledge, and in human society, and thus contribute to a better future for Humanity. This requires a lot of work, so if you feel motivated to help (which would be greatly appreciated), please see: How to Help the Wave Structure of Matter
In this web page you will find some very interesting quotes from many famous Physicists. This is followed by brief summaries and links to Physics Articles which explain and solve many of the problems of postmodern Physics from the new foundation of the Metaphysics of Space and Motion and the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM).
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Aristotle on Physics / Metaphysics
The first philosophy (Metaphysics) is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is just as that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which, just as a thing that is, it has. (
Aristotle, 340BC)
..about its coming into being and its doings and about all its alterations we think that we have knowledge when we know the source of its movement. (
Aristotle, Metaphysics)
The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. And to seek for this is to seek for the second kind of principle, that from which comes the beginning of the change. (
Aristotle, 340BC)
There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity. (
Aristotle, 340BC)
It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge? (
Aristotle, Metaphysics)
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points (concepts and truth) and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them. (
Aristotle, Metaphysics)
.. it is impossible that the primary existent, being eternal, should be destroyed.
.. that among entities there must be some
cause which
moves and
combines things.
.. about its coming into being and its doings and about all its alterations we think that we have knowledge when we know the source of its movement. (
Aristotle, Metaphysics)
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it (and then only intermittently). For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom. (
Aristotle, Metaphysics)
Note: I am currently reading / writing up Aristotle's Physics (the above quotes are from his Metaphysics). Aristotle was very good, and very close to the truth about reality with his conception of the 'Prime Mover' i.e. Space and its Wave Motions. So it is well worth reading his ideas on Physics (unfortunately most modern physicists would not have read Aristotle, which probably explains a lot about the problems of modern physics). Also see;
Aristotle - On Philosopher
Aristotle's Metaphysics and Physics (Motion). (Aristotle was one of the greatest of the famous philosophers and should be read by all people interested in philosophy and wisdom.)
Albert Einstein on Physics
Albert Einstein is one of my favourite philosophers despite the fact that I think he greatly confused modern physics with his Theory of Relativity. Below you will find some interesting quotes from Albert Einstein on Physics, for complete discussion of his Relativity see;
Physics: Albert Einstein's Theory of Special & General Relativity - Briefly summarised (please read the article, summaries do no justice to a complex idea).
Einstein's Special Relativity (no acceleration) - If there is no change in velocity of the In-Waves (velocity of light c) then there is no change in the location of the Wave-Center and thus no 'acceleration of the particle'.
Einstein's General Relativity (on Acceleration and Gravity) - Any change in velocity of the spherical In-Waves (from one direction, as they flow in through other matter) changes the future location of the Wave-Center (we 'see' as 'force accelerating a particle') and also changes the wavelength and ellipsoidal shape of the waves. This change in velocity of 'spherical' In-Waves and their wavelength / ellipsoidal shape (thus dimension) explains the Lorentz Transformations (which are founded on the changing shape of a sphere / ellipsoid).
This also explains why Einstein's General Relativity relates the changing geometry of a sphere / ellipsoid to the 'acceleration of a particle', and thus a Gravitational Field. Albert Einstein's spherical force field theory of matter and the 'curvature' of the 'four dimensional spacetime continuum' can now be understood as Spherical Standing Waves where the higher Wave Density of Space near matter slows the Wave Velocity and causes the Ellipsoidal shape of the In-Waves to change and the wavelength / dimension to contract. This can be related to the changing location of the Wave-Centers (i.e. gravitational force accelerating particle).
Physics constitutes a logical system of thought which is in a state of evolution, whose basis (principles) cannot be distilled, as it were, from experience by an inductive method, but can only be arrived at by free invention. The justification (truth content) of the system rests in the verification of the derived propositions (a priori/logical truths) by sense experiences (a posteriori/empirical truths). ... Evolution is proceeding in the direction of increasing simplicity of the logical basis (principles). .. We must always be ready to change these notions - that is to say, the axiomatic basis of physics - in order to do justice to perceived facts in the most perfect way logically. (Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality, 1936)
It is the grand object of all theory to make these irreducible elements (axioms/assumptions) as simple and as few in number as possible, without having to renounce the adequate representation of any empirical content whatever. (Albert Einstein, 1954)
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them. (Albert Einstein, 191
The development during the present century is characterized by two theoretical systems essentially independent of each other: the theory of relativity and the quantum theory. The two systems do not directly contradict each other; but they seem little adapted to fusion into one unified theory. For the time being we have to admit that we do not possess any general theoretical basis for physics which can be regarded as its logical foundation. (Albert Einstein, 1940)
If, then, it is true that the axiomatic basis of theoretical physics cannot be extracted from experience but must be freely invented, can we ever hope to find the right way? I answer without hesitation that there is, in my opinion, a right way, and that we are capable of finding it. I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. (Albert Einstein, 1954)
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. (Albert Einstein, 1954)
'I must not fail to mention that a theoretical argument can be adduced in favour of the hypothesis of a finite universe. The general theory of relativity teaches that the inertial mass of a given body is greater as there are more ponderable masses in proximity to it; thus it seems very natural to reduce the total inertia of a body to interactions between it and the other bodies in the universe, as indeed, ever since Newton’s time, gravity has been completely reduced to interaction between bodies.' (Albert Einstein, 1954)
'The non-mathematician is seized by a mysterious shuddering when he hears of 'four-dimensional' things, by a feeling not unlike that awakened by thoughts of the occult. And yet there is no more common-place statement than that the world in which we live is a four-dimensional space-time continuum. Space is a three-dimensional continuum. ... Similarly, the world of physical phenomena which was briefly called 'world' by Minkowski is naturally four dimensional in the space-time sense. For it is composed of individual events, each of which is described by four numbers, namely, three space co-ordinates x, y, z, and the time co-ordinate t.' (Albert Einstein, 1954)
'But the path (of general relativity) was thornier than one might suppose, because it demanded the abandonment of Euclidean geometry. This is what we mean when we talk of the 'curvature of space'. The fundamental concepts of the 'straight line', the 'plane', etc., thereby lose their precise significance in physics. In the general theory of relativity the doctrine of space and time, or kinematics, no longer figures as a fundamental independent of the rest of physics. The geometrical behaviour of bodies and the motion of clocks rather depend on gravitational fields which in their turn are produced by matter.' (Albert Einstein, 1919)
The development during the present century is characterized by two theoretical systems essentially independent of each other: the theory of relativity and the quantum theory. The two systems do not directly contradict each other; but they seem little adapted to fusion into one unified theory. For the time being we have to admit that we do not possess any general theoretical basis for physics which can be regarded as its logical foundation.
If, then, it is true that the axiomatic basis of theoretical physics cannot be extracted from experience but must be freely invented, can we ever hope to find the right way? I answer without hesitation that there is, in my opinion, a right way, and that we are capable of finding it. I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. (Albert Einstein, 1954)
I wished to show that space time is not necessarily something to which one can ascribe to a separate existence, independently of the actual objects of physical reality. Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended. In this way the concept empty space loses its meaning. (Albert Einstein)
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence:
Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. (Albert Einstein)
In the year nineteen hundred, in the course of purely theoretical (mathematical) investigation, Max Planck made a very remarkable discovery: the law of radiation of bodies as a function of temperature could not be derived solely from the Laws of Maxwellian electrodynamics. To arrive at results consistent with the relevant experiments, radiation of a given frequency f had to be treated as though it consisted of energy atoms (photons) of the individual energy hf, where h is Planck's universal constant. This discovery became the basis of all twentieth-century research in physics and has almost entirely conditioned its development ever since. Without this discovery it would not have been possible to establish a workable theory of molecules and atoms and the energy processes that govern their transformations. Moreover, it has shattered the whole framework of classical mechanics and electrodynamics and set science a fresh task: that of finding a new conceptual basis for all physics. Despite remarkable partial gains, the problem is still far from a satisfactory solution. (Albert Einstein, 1954)
Experiments on interference made with particle rays have given brilliant proof that the wave character of the phenomena of motion as assumed by the theory does, really, correspond to the facts. (Einstein, 1954)
de Broglie conceived an electron revolving about the atomic nucleus as being connected with a hypothetical wave train, and made intelligible to some extent the discrete character of Bohr's 'permitted' paths by the stationary (standing) character of the corresponding waves. (Einstein, 1954)
How can one assign a discrete succession of energy values E to a system specified in the sense of classical mechanics (the energy function is a given function of the co-ordinates x and the corresponding momenta mv)? Planck's constant h relates the frequency f =E/h to the energy values E. It is therefore sufficient to assign to the system a succession of discrete frequency f values. This reminds us of the fact that in acoustics a series of discrete frequency values is coordinated to a linear partial differential equation (for given boundary conditions) namely the sinusoidal periodic solutions. In corresponding manner, Schrodinger set himself the task of coordinating a partial differential equation for a scalar wave function to the given energy function E (x, mv), where the position x and time t are independent variables. (Einstein, 1954)
The de Broglie-Schrodinger method, which has in a certain sense the character of a field theory, does indeed deduce the existence of only discrete states, in surprising agreement with empirical facts. It does so on the basis of differential equations applying a kind of resonance argument. (Einstein, 1954)
It seems to be clear, therefore, that Born's statistical interpretation of quantum theory is the only possible one. The wave function does not in any way describe a state which could be that of a single system; it relates rather to many systems, to an 'ensemble of systems' in the sense of statistical mechanics. (Einstein, 1954)
Thus the last and most successful creation of theoretical physics, namely quantum mechanics (QM), differs fundamentally from both Newton's mechanics, and Maxwell's e-m field. For the quantities which figure in QM's laws make no claim to describe physical reality itself, but only probabilities of the occurrence of a physical reality that we have in view. … I cannot but confess that I attach only a transitory importance to this interpretation. I still believe in the possibility of a model of reality - that is to say, of a theory which represents things themselves and not merely the probability of their occurrence. On the other hand, it seems to me certain that we must give up the idea of complete localization of the particle in a theoretical model. This seems to me the permanent upshot of Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty. (Einstein, 1954)
Einstein observed that specialization is invariably damaging to Science as a whole;
The area of scientific knowledge has been enormously extended, and theoretical knowledge has become vastly more profound in every department of science. But the assimilative power of the human intellect is and remains strictly limited. Hence it was inevitable that the activity of the individual investigator should be confined to a smaller and smaller section of human knowledge. Worse still, this specialization makes it increasingly difficult to keep even our general understanding of science as a whole, without which the true spirit of research is inevitably handicapped, in step with scientific progress. Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic....
It is just as important to make knowledge live and to keep it alive as to solve specific problems. (Albert Einstein, 1954)
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. (Albert Einstein, 1954)
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- RP ( Aka: K. B. Robertson, World's Number One Einstein Groupie; Apprentice to Albert - 'The Axe' - Einstein )
With special thanks to bottomlander & Graybeard, of the Theory of Everything Forum, and a salient salute to Miles W. Mathis, author of The Greatest Standing Errors in Mathematics & Physics, at http://www.geocities.com/mileswmathis/index.html