On 07 Nov 2013, at 18:51, Roger Clough wrote:
String theory in Leibniz's platonic physics
Strings, being massless, are Leibniz's monads (mental)
in his platonic physics (see below). In platonic physics, each monad
is attached to its relevant physical particle, contains information on
all of the other monads (strings) in the universe. Interactions
between particles are given mentally according to Leibniz's
pre-established harmony. Each string or monad also has a
"bare naked soul" which is essentially its identity and perhaps
its operating system.
Monads are dimensionless truth points in the platonic realm.
Leibniz's Platonic Physics
Leibniz's idealistic or platonic physics seems to me, a
nonphysicist, to
possibly obviate the need for quantum mechanics due
to the preestablished harmony.
I apologize for any errors.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-physics/
To partly summarize Leibniz's platonic physics:
1. Leibniz's universe is platonic or mental (Idealism) whose reality
consists completely of monads, which are the mental representations
(complete logical concepts, ie subjects with a complete set of
predicates)
of physical bodies.
In what sense is a string a mental representation, or what and for who?
I fail to make sense of your idea that massless = mental. Light is
not a mental phenomenon.
Bruno
2. Because of the nature of perception by the One,
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-mind/
each monad contains the perceptions or states of
all of the other monads in the universe.
2.Space and time are not monads, but their effects are representated
as a "pre-established harmony". essentialy a theory of mental or
platonic causation,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-established_harmony
This is a mental map of spacetime (which itself is mental) that
predicts the paths of all bodies from
the beginning of the universe to the end based, on the laws of
physics (Newtonian physics and particle physics).
3. Time by itself is not physical, but is, as one might expect in a
platonic
physics, it is perceived only as an intuition (see Kant also) and
as perceived is quantized as the One can see all monads
only at particular instances. Space (which does not physically
exist) is
mental but continuous
4. Causation in Leibniz is platonic, that is to say, completely
mental,
and simply follows the pattern of the pre-established harmony.
In this, a monad at spacetime A (which contains the states of
all of the other monads) is perceived by the One and moved to
spacetime B (possibly next to A).
5. Since this physics applies to all monads (bodies or particles of
any size) and these completely comprise the platonic universe,
it could possibly replace quantum mechanics at small scales.
Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000]
See my Leibniz site at
http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough
Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000]
See my Leibniz site at
http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough
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