The Perpetual Puzzle of Nature
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- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:14:05 -0600
Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic Paradigm
Introduction
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A revolution in science occurs if at first only the new presents
itself. From that moment until the old fits in again (it is a
rule, not a law, that this always happens in physics), we have a
period of revolution. - Abraham Pais [1]
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The Perpetual Puzzle of Nature
Nature is a highly complex puzzle that to one degree or another
has fascinated all peoples, in all places, at all times. And, as
the constructive representation of the unconditioned one and the
conditionally relative many, continued advancement in scientific
knowledge leaves little doubt that the perpetual puzzle of
Nature only seems to grow larger as one or another piece of the
puzzle is discovered and put into place.
One example of continued growth, unexpectedly discovered by this
author in the year 2000, is a novel new piece of the perpetual
puzzle of Nature that significantly increases the scope of
physical science beyond previous theoretical and experimental
limitations. The unexpected revolutionary discovery – the
universal principle of energy – succinctly states that:
Fundamental, irreducible primordial energy exists in the
absence of matter, but matter is entirely dependent upon
energy and cannot exist in the absence of energy.
The implications of the universal principle of energy are
astonishingly broad in scope. Three major implications are 1)
the fundamental, irreducible foundation of the nonmaterial
primordial energy domain is now revealed, 2) the classical
physics and quantum mechanics of the material domain are wholly
subsumed, and 3) the path to the new physics of the 21st century
and beyond leads to and through various conditionally relative
levels of the nonmaterial primordial energy domain.
Indeed, it can now be seen that classical physics, quantum
mechanics, and the 20th century Standard Model of high-energy
particle physics [2] have provided a detailed description of the
material domain that occupies the foreground of the complex,
conditionally relative puzzle of Nature and that the massless
fundamental, nonmaterial (subquantum, prequantum) [3] primordial
energy domain provides not only the unexplored background of our
material puzzle, but also the irreducible foundation of the one
and the many.
Q: Why hasn't the massless nonmaterial primordial energy
domain been discovered before now?
A: Human eyes cannot see energy that has a frequency above
or below the visible range of the electromagnetic
spectrum; therefore, with the exception of visible
light, the electromagnetic spectrum and the irreducible
nonmaterial energy foundation of the perpetual puzzle of
Nature are hidden from view.
Fifty years before the development of the particle physics
Standard Model Albert Einstein firmly rejected Niels Bohr's
hypothesis that reality per se has meaning only within the
explicit act of physical observation or measurement, and to the
end of his life Einstein asserted the objective, independent
existence of the material universe. Thus the disparate views of
Einstein (1879-1955) and Bohr (1885-1962) can be seen as
incompatible and mutually exclusive, yet these two pioneers of
20th century science remained personal friends throughout their
respective lifetimes.
The accumulation of scientific knowledge independently
stimulated or facilitated by Einstein and Bohr amply
demonstrates that each of them diligently investigated different
pieces of the complex puzzle of Nature even as their
professional efforts advanced the traditional teaching,
systematically reorganized by Isaac Newton (1643-1727) in the
Principia, that particulate matter is the fundamental,
irreducible foundation of our finite, tangible universe.
Interestingly, the Western historical tradition that matter is
fundamental and irreducible seems to be based on a
pre-scientific, inherently circular argument the ancient Greeks
handed down from one philosopher-scientist or scholar to another
through centuries and millenia. Succinctly put, the matter
argument states that:
1. The material universe is a closed or isolated
(conservative) material system of transcendent origin.
2. Physical reality is coextensive with and limited to the
elementary constituents and fundamental properties of
particulate matter that possesses physical mass, can be weighed,
and occupies space.
In principle the increased scope of physics implied by the
universal principle of energy and the fundamental, irreducible
nonmaterial energy domain opens novel new massless paths to a
broader, more comprehensive nonmaterial energy physics.
Through the publication of his 1905 paper, Does the Inertia of a
Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, which described the first
derivation of his mass-energy equation, m = E/c² , [4] Einstein
eventually led the early 20th century scientific community to
the understanding that the relativistic mass of particulate
matter which can be weighed and occupies space in a closed or
isolated (conservative) material system is equivalent to the
mechanical energy of the system.
But not all material systems are closed or isolated
(conservative) systems. Many closed or isolated systems are
artificially constructed as an aid to human understanding.
One hundred years after the derivation of m = E/c², the
unexpected subnuclear violation (apparent failure) of the
conservation of matter/mass law in theoretically closed
high-energy particle collider experiments – the mysterious,
so-called "particle zoo" effect first encountered in the late
1950s – is properly explained only by the universal principle of
energy. These novel nonconservative experimental results can be
seen as not only confirming that mass is the discrete, organized
aggregation of massless nonmaterial primordial energy, they also
suggest that the subnuclear region of the atomic nucleus is a
compound open (nonconservative) nonmaterial/material system.
Furthermore, the universal principle of energy points directly
to the nonmaterial primordial energy domain as the origin of our
material universe and space-time continuum. Therefore, in
principle we seem to live in a holonomic material universe which
is itself embedded within and holographically reconstructed from
a transcendent primordial energy continuum. Nonetheless, the
totality of the perpetual puzzle of Nature – the totality of the
unconditioned one and the conditionally relative many – remains
obscure and difficult to grasp even after the discovery of the
universal principle of energy.
If the universal principle of energy is confirmed by experiment,
the deterministic clockwork universe of classical physics as
well as the probabilistic quantum mechanics of the 20th century
would seem to be wholly subsumed by the novel new massless
physics of The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP, pronounced
"teep") model of physical reality just-as-it-is. Significant
questions about the fundamental nature of matter, mass, and
inertia may also be resolved.
The universal principle of energy (TUPE) and the TEHP model of
comprehensive physical reality just-as-it-is separately and
collectively subsume the scientific knowledge attributed to
Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Einstein, Bohr, their predecessors,
and their successors, thereby providing a robust new physics and
a broad new scope of theory and practice for the synthesis of
new discoveries and their timely addition to the perpetual
puzzle of Nature.
Moreover, massless omnipresent, pervasive nonmaterial primordial
energy can now be seen as the fundamental, irreducible
foundation not only of our finite, local material universe, but
also of the conditionally relative many present in principle on
every material and nonmaterial level of existence that emerges
reciprocally within the uncreated, unconditioned one.
This online series of essays is a work in progress which
describes the personal understanding acquired by the author
while trekking through a few small areas of the 20th and 21st
century scientific milieus. The reader may also enjoy one or
more of the 126 poems listed in the Consciousness, Physics, and
Holographic Paradigm Index:
http://pages.suddenlink.net/hermital/index.htm
Next: Chapter 1, Section 1: The Subquantum Energy Bridge:
http://pages.suddenlink.net/hermital/index.htm
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Reference Notes:
1. Pais, Abraham. 'Subtle is the Lord...' The Science and the
Life of Albert Einstein, Oxford University Press, 1982, pp.
29-30. ISBN 0-19-520438-1 (UK paperback)
2. The Standard Model of elementary particles was developed by
Gerard 't Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman, recipients of the
1999 Nobel Prize in Physics, from 1970-1974. 't Hooft and
Veltman have authored highly recommended books that describe
elementary particle physics and the 20th century Standard Model:
* 't Hooft, Gerard. "In search of the ultimate building
blocks;" Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 0 521 57883 3
(paperback)
* Veltman, Martinius J.G. "Facts and Mysteries in
Elementary Particle Physics;" World Scientific Publishing Co.
Ltd, Singapore, 2003. ISBN 981-238-149-X (paperback)
3. Subquantum, prequantum: existing prior to the virtual or
apparent quantization of nonmaterial primordial energy per se.
4. Einstein, Albert. "Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem
Energieinhalt abhängig?"; Annalen der Physik, 18 (1905): 639-641.
Anna Beck, translator. The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein,
vol. 2, The Swiss Years: Writings, 1900-1909; English Edition,
Doc. 24, p. 174. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1989.
ISBN 0-691-08549-8.
(cf. Einstein, Albert. John Stachel, editor. The Collected
Papers of Albert Einstein, vol. 2, The Swiss Years: Writings,
1900-1909; original papers written in German, p. 314. Princeton
University Press, Princeton NJ, 1989. ISBN 0-691-08526-9)
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