Isn't it obvious that there must be unity, something that underlies and sustains personal awareness and its shifting, transitory images of body based personality in a creepy huge ancient physical reality, within which traditions, groups, and civilizations evolve and fade, faster and faster -- some level that is not touched by all the perceived clashing dualities of victim-perpetrator, prey-predator, CF believer-CF skeptic, conservative-liberal, capitalist-socialist, young-old, living-dead, present-gone, effect-cause --
notice that the supremely collaborative ever evolving edifice of world science has made the universe itself into an uncanny ahuman process, nothing more than exceedingly complex vibrating patterns of weird nothingness -- somehow creating this very moment within which our bewildered awarenesses behold within personal visual space these little crooked black le t t e r s -- yes, it took 13,700 million years for everything to happen just so that this, this, this arises in your mind -- so, your mind must this moment be an aspect of the untouched source reality -- can this be experienced by your mind? CSICON -- Murray's Law -- Eternal Exponential Expansion of Science: Rich Murray 1997.04.05, 2001.06.22, 2011.01.03 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.htm Monday, January 2, 2011 [ at the end of each long post, click on Older Posts ] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rmforall/message/102 _______________________________________________ Rich Murray CSICON April 5 1997 Communion for the Subjective Investigation of Claims of the Normal Room For All 254-A Donax Avenue, Imperial Beach, CA 9932 rmfor...@gmail.com 505-819-7388 rich.murray11 Skype audio, video April 5, 1997 Murray's Law -- Eternal Exponential Expansion of Science Millenia of worldwide commonsense traditions have culminated in a recent few centuries of exponential scientific work. Since 1660, the number of scientists has grown from about 100 to about 10,000,000.* Likewise, the volume of accumulated scientific literature, both doubling unstopably every twenty years, rather like Mickey Mouse's hordes of relentlessly marching brooms in Disney's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". This global orchestration of thought and practice has been firmly founded on certain principles, rarely questioned, widely held to be unquestionable. Experience, available only in the ever changing present moment of personal subjective awareness, is held to be entirely based on and derived from a basic reality, itself "external" to experience: physical, or more abstractly, time-space-energy. This base reality is universally assumed to be impersonal, consistent, orderly, lawful, causal, uniform, single, measurable, describable, communicable, continuous, contiguous, inherently simple, and based on a small set of unchangeable (in themselves) logical-mathematical operations. Therefore this reality can be modeled and predicted by the self-qualifying global society of scientists, based solely on communication with perceivable symbols via the external senses. In short, the primary reality (along with its barely acknowledged orphan, conscious experience) is absolutely normal. The primary image of this paradigm is that of the machine, or the modern embodiment, the computer: well-defined elements interacting in three-dimensional space along a single one-way track of causality to produce utterly normal results, however marvelous, varied, valuable, or unpredictable they may be in practice. This towering edifice of established normality paradoxically both hides and makes even more significant any hints of "nonnormality" -- the illicit paranormal, the lurking transcendentals, from ghosts with the most to Lord of Hosts. Hitherto, "anomalies", such as random variations in offspring, the fogging of sealed photographic plates by uranium ore, or slight static in sensitive radios, have become mere fodder for the assimilation program of science, leading to vast extensions of the range of the normal, including evolution, quantum mechanics, and the Big Bang. "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated"-- the implacable marching motto of the Borg juggarnaut. Willem of Occam proclaimed, "Thou shalt not multiply entities needlessly." Indeed, hordes of angels, demons, ghosts, spirits, influences, and innate qualities have been relegated to the dustbins of our race's mythic heritage, from children's Saturday morning cartoons to incessant massively multiplayer video games for tens of millions. Mature minds, entranced by ever more lofty and subtle theoretical visions, fed feasts of observation and experimentation on every level, constrained by principles of parsimony, generality, and elegance, have exuburantly, soberly created in a mere century: at the ever tapering tail of the dragon, atoms that are .999999 empty space, said empty space as a fully occupied negative energy sea of prodigious density, with incessant particle pair production-annihilation within that good old vacuum, the equivalence of mass and energy, the relativistic variation of observed time, with irreducible randomness, fuzziness, discontinuity, and, feh!, nonlocality at the very core of reality, the weird phenomena of superconductivity and superfluidity, the ever fecund boson-fermion zoo of baryons, mesons, quarks, gluons, neutrinos, WIMPs, gravitons, Higg's, magnetic monopoles, and their antis, and their superpartners, all cascading into actuality as infinitesimal loops or membranes vibrating within that most spacious crystal of abstraction, E8XE8 Group (The Monster) Symmetry, while now 7 additional dimensions of space are parsimoniously mandated. Whew! meanwhile, at the ever bigger end of said dragon, suddenly the galaxy!, sprinkled with pulsars and quasars, oh!, then an expanding universe of galaxies, salted with gamma-ray bursters, all swimming in huge rivers and pools and dollops of dark matter, with a ubiquitous profoundly mysterious dark energy inexorably increasing cosmic acceleration in the recent five billion years, oh!, that all sprang into being as a space-time bubble with zero total energy as an infinitesimal quantum vacuum fluctuation in "something", oh!, our bubble of galaxies extends 10E+25 further than the 13.7 billion light years presently observable (that's 10E+75 greater volume, folks), oh!, might be untold zillions of universe bubbles, forever disconnected, each with unique intrinsic properties, effervescing cheerily within "something"... just the facts, Mamm, heh, heh. Funny what the principle of parsimony leads to... gee whiz, I near forgot, black holes, them's weird nuff, huh? Lot of 'em, too, all sizes! Oops, they evaporate! Blow up too! Wow! Gravitational radiation, anyone? We can plain see gravitational lensing! How about cosmic string and cosmic texture, frozen phase changes in space-time itself? remember, if it ain't prohibited, it mandatory. Yep! (Is anything really prohibited?) I'm not complaining. It's surely wonderful. We taxpayers are getting our money's worth, and then some. But do you see any sign of convergence? Any saturation? Any deceleration? In empirical fact, isn't what we see in a mere hundred years an unstoppably exponential avalanche of proliferation of fantastic subtleties? Isn't the most obvious outcome for the next century a continuation of this inexhaustibly creative weaving of this coat of many colors, worlds within worlds, without end, without any possible end, not in a hundred billion years of sentient evolution, not ever, forever? Isn't this, ahem, trend, amen, the primary observational fact of the last hundred years? I say so. I hereby dignify this empirical law by a suitable appellation: Murrray's Law: In the overall exponential evolution of the scientific process, the scale of reality available for consideration and the diversity and subtlety of its entities and interactions all increase exponentially, forever. In 1660, the linear grid of Cartesian coordinates comprised the primary paradigm for scientific reality. On its empty black and white board Newton drew alike the falling apple, the orbiting Moon -- simple balls coasting smoothly along well-defined paths in perfect space. Now the archetypal image is the Mandlebrot Set, full of brilliantly and arbitrarily colored subtle details, forever inexhaustible in timeless simultaneous single entire creative fractal hyperinfinity. *Actually, according to AAAS, there were 5.8 million science and engineering researchers in 2006. [ now marvelously interlinked via the global Net ] **********************************************************
