Subject-object metaphysics, the reality doctrine of modern day, with the apex of thought represented by the highest levels of abstraction in mathematics and Theoretical Physics, has its origins as a reaction, a parallel conception of the nature of the universe, to… Read More ›
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The View from the West: The History of Objective Realism
The East-West division with respect to worldviews and ways of thinking clearly has significant limits in interpretative utility despite its proliferation and widespread use in the academic and intellectual community, in the West in particular. Having said that it is… Read More ›
Schrödinger’s Cat: The Death of Local Realism
As civilizations and empires emerged in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, there was a need, a vacuum if you will, for a theological/religious force to keep these vast empires together. One can see this reflected in the proliferation of… Read More ›
Quantum Mechanics: Wave-Particle Duality and Uncertainty
Following the intellectual bread crumbs of Albert Einstein, let’s try to understand how his revolutionary ideas and theories of universal gravitation, the notion of spacetime, the establishment of the equivalence of mass and energy, the necessary condition of the existence… Read More ›
Quantum Mechanics: The Death of Local Realism
From Pantheism to Monotheism Charlie had covered a lot of ground by this point. He’d started in the age of mythology, at the dawn of civilization, looking at the cultural and socio-political forces that underpinned and supported the local mythology… Read More ›
Wave-Particle Duality: So Much for the Atom
From Charlie’s standpoint, Relativity Theory could be grasped intellectually by the educated, intelligent mind. You didn’t need advanced degrees or a deep understanding of complex mathematics to understand that at a very basic level, Relativity Theory implied that basic measurements like… Read More ›
Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics: Back to First Philosophy
If you believe in the power of mathematics to describe the universe, as the language of God so to speak, in its theoretical as well as predictive power in describing the nature of the physical universe at the cosmic as… Read More ›