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sophiaserpentia) wrote2003-01-21 11:25 am
sophiaserpentia) wrote2003-01-21 11:25 am
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Was quoting Bucky Fuller for a comment in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
novapsyche's journal, and it led me down some mental pathways this morning. So I thought I'd record them here for posterity.
Some of the more intriguing results to come out of physics labs in recent months have called into question the universal constancy of the speed of light and other very basic assumptions on which our current theories are based.
Suppose that no constants at all can be assumed. One one level this would be a satisfactory result for physicists, who do not like to postulate "arbitrary" natural laws. But the implications are mind-blowing. If nothing is constant, then ultimately the universe and everything in it is "special case." Only local conditions can be described with any accuracy. Nature is made of 'stuff' that figures out how to exist, ever improving in its efficiency, and then propagates solutions outwards like ripples -- no condition can be said to be true 'everywhere at once.'
Simply put, the universe refuses to cooperate with our need/desire to express infinite potential in terms understandable to finite minds.
novapsyche's journal, and it led me down some mental pathways this morning. So I thought I'd record them here for posterity.Synergetics 311.03 Universe is the aggregate of eternal generalized principles whose nonunitarily conceptual scenario is unfoldingly manifest in a variety of special-case, local, time-space transformative, evolutionary events.
Some of the more intriguing results to come out of physics labs in recent months have called into question the universal constancy of the speed of light and other very basic assumptions on which our current theories are based.
Suppose that no constants at all can be assumed. One one level this would be a satisfactory result for physicists, who do not like to postulate "arbitrary" natural laws. But the implications are mind-blowing. If nothing is constant, then ultimately the universe and everything in it is "special case." Only local conditions can be described with any accuracy. Nature is made of 'stuff' that figures out how to exist, ever improving in its efficiency, and then propagates solutions outwards like ripples -- no condition can be said to be true 'everywhere at once.'
Simply put, the universe refuses to cooperate with our need/desire to express infinite potential in terms understandable to finite minds.