--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity <no_re...@...> wrote: <snip. > Quantum mechanics explains a lot, but the big problems > arise when trying to form a unified field theory, which > Hawking and others continue to struggle with. But > there is no unified field theory yet, despite what > Haglin says. As the quote in the first post says, > ". . . if there's something about the physical world > that quantum mechanics isn't telling you, it doesn't > follow that those gaps can be filled with poetry." > Mystical answers are not necessarily the correct > answers. > > Quantum Mechanics is often misused to explain more > than it does. Consciousness is a big example. And > classical physics still explains behavior of "large" > objects. Classical physics isn't wrong, it just isn't > the whole picture.
As usual, Ruth doesn't dare quote me, but she figures she's responding to the post of mine that John was commenting on. Perhaps she should have read what I wrote instead of making assumptions about it: > Physicists such as Heisenberg, Schroedinger, Pauli, > and Eddington turned to mysticism not because the > new physics validated a metaphysical understanding > of reality, but because the new physics told us > that the true nature of reality was forever beyond > the reach of physics. > > Whether mysticism provides a direct, unmediated > experience of the true nature of reality is another > question, but it's for sure that physics doesn't.
