from the Big View.com. This website says there are "parallels" between physics
and the metaphysics of Eastern sources (citing Fritjof Capra, a favorite target
of Stenger's).
Nothing about Flipped SU(5) however. When the time comes for the Large Hadron
Collider to get the bugs out of it and running nicely, naturally a committee
will have to pass judgement on which experiments to schedule. The chances of
them scheduling a slot for Hagelin's flipped SU(5) are remote. For one thing,
who's going to pay for this test?
I don't think they'll take too kindly to "What the Bleepists" comandeering
their machine for making oddball claims.
Here's the Big View quote:
"Molecules and atoms cannot be split into independent units. All parts interact
at all levels.
The oriental scriptures agree in the point that all observable and describable
realities are manifestations of the same underlying "divine" principle.
Although many phenomena of the observable world are seemingly unrelated, they
all go back to the same source. Things are intertwined and interdependent to an
unfathomable degree, just as the particles in an atom are. Although the
electrons in an atom can be thought of as individual particles, they are not
really individual particles, because of the complicated wave relations that
exist between them. Hence, the electron cloud model describes the atomic
structure more adequately. The sum of electrons in an atom cannot be separated
from its nucleus, which has a compound structure itself and can neither be
regarded a separate entity. Thus, in the multiplicity of things there is unity.
Matter is many things and one thing at the same time.
The Eastern scriptures say that no statement about the world is ultimately
valid ("The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao." Tao Te Ching, Verse
1), since not even the most elaborate language is capable of rendering a
perfect model of the universe. Science is often compared to a tree that
branches out into many directions. The disposition of physics is that it
follows the tree upward to its branches and leaves, while meta-physics follows
it down to the root. Whether the branches of knowledge stretch out indefinitely
is still a matter of debate. However, it appears that most scientific
discoveries do not only answer questions, but also raise new ones.
The German philosopher, FriedrichHegel formulated an idea at the beginning of
the 19th century that describes this process. He proposed the dialectic triad
of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, in which an idea (thesis) always contains
incompleteness and thus yields a conflicting idea (antithesis). A third point
of view (synthesis) arises, which overcomes the conflict by reconciling the
truth contained in both, thesis and antithesis, at a higher level of
understanding. The synthesis then becomes a new thesis, generates another
antithesis, and the process starts over. In the next section, we shall see how
20th century physics embodies Hegel's dialectical principle. We will also take
a close look at the philosophical implications of Heisenberg's Uncertainty
Principle
