The Total Picture - an antidote

[Guest guest]

Because I was a physics major in college, and have some ability

to actually understand the mathematics of quantum physics, I

have to keep bursting out laughing at Deep-sand's postings and

commentary about the (so-called) new physics. His new post,

The Total Picture" is yet another laugher.

 

Please, folks, before you given any credance to this half-baked,

quasi-scientific, wildly speculative prattle, please read Ken

Wilber's "Quantum Questions." It's written in non-technical

language and is very readable, and as you probably know,

Wilber is a world-class thinker in philosophy and Eastern

thought.

 

Then take take what Deep-sand says about the "new physics"

and how they supposedly "justify" or "prove" his personal world

view, with a very small, shall we say, quantum-small, grain of

salt!

 

Steve

 

(PS -- Also take with a very small grain of salt "The Tao of

Physics" and "The Dancing Wu-Li Masters." But I'll leave it to

Wilber to deconstruct those.)

>From the opening of Wilber's "Quantum Questions":

 

"Today we hear of the supposed relation between modern

physics and Eastern mysticism. Bootstrap theory, Bell's

Theorem, the implicate order, the holographic paradigm -- all of

this is supposed to prove (or is it dispose?) Eastern mysticism.

In all respects it simply the same story (the fact that every

generation has tried to use physics to prove and disprove Spirit)

with diffrerent characters. The pros and cons struct their wares,

but what remains true and unchanged is simply that the issue

itself is very complex."