Are the Laws of Physics Alive?
Posted: Thursday, February 18, 2010
by Tony Brussat
http://qualiadelic.com
An underlying premise of the qualiadelic experience is that ideas are alive. They are living entities, vying for space in our brains. So, here's a question: are the laws of physics alive?
The common wisdom is that the laws of physics are unchanging beautiful, but monolithic. In other words, they might as well be dead. We may discover the unifying theory of all things, but it will be just so much universal rebar. Anyway, that's the common wisdom, that the laws of physics are set in stone.
When held to the gold standard of science that is, mathematics all the arts and humanities, which garner so much intellectual seriousness, might as well be so much metaphysics. In fact, metaphysics may be a much surer pursuit than these others, and not just because "physics" makes up part of its name.
The reason is that the eyes of artists, of historians, of psychologists, of economists, of sociologists, and all of all the rest of these thoughtful people are focused upon mankind. Let us ask, by way of illustration, why history is continually rewritten: every generation revises the past, not just because new information has come to light, but because of subtle changes in morality which force the imagination to readjust its perspective. If the expression "can't see the forest for the trees" means anything, it is that we are too close to our subject.
One wonders if there are any historians at all who write from the evolutionary perspective, who take the long view of human history as finite. Once human history gets written from the perspective of the planet, from the eyes Mother Gaia, it will no longer need to be revised.
But then we would be thinking outside the box we wouldn't be focused myopically on mankind. The artists, the psychologists, the economists and all the rest would be wise to take the long view as well. They should take a clue from the biologists for whom mankind is only one species of note (one which happens to be the enemy of all the others right now).
Then, on the other hand, we have metaphysics. Metaphysics is nonsense, to be sure that is "non-sense" as in not to be sensed by the basic five senses (or by the instruments that extend them). For this very reason, people with a bent for the metaphysical have the the long view of history. Their perspective is beyond man. (The popularity of metaphysical "self-help" books is only proof of the craving that people have to adopt the long view; and if historians wrote from this perspective they, too, would be rich.)
So, metaphysics is superior to the arts and humanities in that mankind is not its subject. Likewise, with physics. The universe is physics' proper subject, which brings us back to the question of whether the laws of physics are alive?
Doubless, they are. The laws of physics are right next to God, whom (if such a being exists) we all assume must be alive. God is the most qualiadelic idea imaginable. Qualiadelia is alive. Therefore, it is logical to assume that the second most qualiadelic set of ideas, the laws of physics, are alive, too.
Be Qualiadelic. Be Conscious. Change the routine.
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