David Paul Boaz “The essential fact of quantum mechanics is entanglement” (Leonard Susskind). It was this “lucid mysticism” (Pauli) of Quantum Field Theory (QFT) with its holist...
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Category: Philosophy of Physics and Cosmology
Toward a Centrist Noetic Science of Matter Mind and Spirit Space and time are not conditions in which we live, but modes in which we think. —Albert Einstein Value-free scien...
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Our titular concern: with the collapse of local objective spacetime reality, what is real? Who am I being here in time? Our venerable quantitative Standard Model of particles and forces with its two i...
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Time is nature’s way of preventing everything from happening at once. ...
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Gravity Behaving Badly: Problem and Opportunity David Paul Boaz Gravity—John Wheeler’s murky “great smoky dragon”—is the primordial entropic creator and destroye...
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Idols of the Tribe: The Metaphysics of Modern Science The new post-quantum scientific knowledge imperative: science and its scientists must make conscious their a priori preconscious...
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The Limit of Scientific Method Scientific theory and ideology evolve in historical time. Scientific theories “true” 100 years ago are history. Just so, Newton’s G has evolved into Ei...
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Much Ado About Nearly Nothing With the demise of our spacetime foundational background—the physical space/place where stuff happens—goes pernicious Scientific Imperialism: doctrinal Realism/Materi...
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Ontological Extremism, a Middle Way, and the Light of the Mind What is real? Who am I? In Buddhism the Abhidharma of the Sarvastivada and Vaibhashika Schools, along with Democritus, Aristotle and our ...
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The emptiness of mind is not a state of mind; it is our original mind that includes everything within itself….the nature of mind is the unity of awareness and emptiness. —Suzuki Roshi Relat...
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When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. —John Muir Science’s view of science, as exempli...
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There is not the slightest difference between samsara and nirvana. —Nagarjuna We have seen that our post-transcendental Principle of Ontological Interdependence informs us that the conceptual Two Tr...
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The Planck Era: 10¯⁴³ sec.; size 10¯³⁰; temperature 10³². Quantum gravity era (t=0), if there is any (t). Observation and knowledge is here precluded as all physical theory breaks down at th...
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Astoundingly, Einstein recanted his cosmological constant Λ when Hubble’s 1929 red shift calculations showed that the cosmos is not a static biblical “firmament” as was the prevaili...
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Physics’ Standard Model of particles and forces desperately needs the theoretical boost of an objectively “real,” physical Higgs boson. The CERN July 2012 “5 sigma” certainty “discovery”...
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Science and its scientists must make conscious their a priori preconscious metaphysical presuppositions, value assumptions and beliefs underlying modern scientific ideology and methodology. These “i...
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Stephen Hawking’s metaphysical dread is troublesome. His new “Model-Dependent Realism” is necessarily a metaphysical ontology as to the nature of the reality that this “realism” presumes to ...
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Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), considered by many in the philosophy trade to be the most important American philosopher of the 20th century, authored two monumental essays—“Two Dogmas of E...
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The third great scientific revolution, the Quantum Revolution, is now complete, if not entirely historically resolved. From it is emerging post-quantum, post-Standard Model Quantum Gravity theory. The...
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Do you understand the two minds: the mind which includes everything, and the mind that is related to something? —Suzuki Roshi There have been three great revolutions in the knowledge dialectic of We...
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