It was G.W.F Hegel who first criticized and questioned the continuation of the use of what he called the “metaphysical” mode of thought in natural science, which by his time came to some level of sophistication and differentiation. He proposed dialectics or the view of reason as the proper tool for acquiring positive knowledge of the world instead of the view of understanding and causality of old natural philosophy.
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels further developed dialectics to dialectical materialism as an all-round scientific tool to comprehend the development of nature, man and the mind. These vanguards sharpened the old dialectical tools to help equip the emerging proletariat for its historical task of propelling humanity to a higher stage of advancement. Engels, more than anyone else elaborated the views of dialectics in natural science. Subsequent progress in all areas of terrestrial sciences particularly the biological sciences, the Theory of Evolution and Quantum Mechanics vindicated the view that the dialectical laws assert themselves in the development of nature.
But official science is still openly hostile to the notions of dialectics and only reluctantly, by the way of exceptions and in isolated cases accepts its role. Once vibrant natural science, which brought in a revolutionary transformation of the human society and of mother earth within a span of few hundred years now finds itself tamed in the servitude of one small class represented by monopoly capital. Gone are the days of the free thinkers, the passionate and creative giants who pursued their profession for the mere thirst of knowledge under the most severe conditions and more often under the threat of persecution and death. They are now replaced by troops of conformed scientist serfs (paraphrased by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore) who are totally dependent on monopoly capital for their livelihood, career and crafts and who toil mightily to bring out only expected and acceptable results. Brain-cooked, abstract Kantian logical/geometrical/mathematical categories-based esoteric theories, particularly the theories of relativity and the resulting endless scholasticism is the only mainstay pabulum nourishing modern physics. This is no different from medieval scholasticism practised by the priests.
The only difference from the previous history is that; subjectively motivated, contrived or even false claims of “proofs” of the official theories of physics and cosmology; lured by the promise of fame, fortune and fund is the dominant propaganda and pacifying tool of official science.
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Richard David Scott > “Maybe they fixed something”?
I don’t think they fixed anything. If they did, they would claim increased sensitivity and would have doubled up their claims. The reality is that they can feel the increasing tide of doubt about the “proofs” of Einstein’s theories of relativity in this and other forums of (at least) in RG! You can see that the vociferous and arrogant supporters of Einsteinian (field-based) theories of modern physics have/are falling silent, including a Nobel Laureate in theoretical physics. The leading big name (and highly promoted by official science) leaders behind the “proofs” hoping of “sealing the deal” are now confronted with increasing doubt from all sides. JWST which was supposed to finalize the deal by discovering the “early universe” have now faced the exact opposite of what was hoped for! Only know-nothing humbugs are engaged in endless and meaningless scholastic debates; based on few morsels of (anti-quantum) classical physics they know. It is now becoming increasingly obvious that ("continuous field"-based) Einsteinian theoretical physics and cosmology stand in the same relation to modern parasitic monopoly capitalism; as the Ptolemaic Epicycles and theology was to decadent (pre-Copernican) feudalism in Europe.
The great Einstein himself admitted the esoteric nature of his theories of relativity by the end of his life and expressed grave doubt about their validity in a letter (1954) to his life-long friend Michelle Besso, about a year before his death (1955): “All these fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no nearer to the answer to the question, 'What are light quanta?' Nowadays every Tom, Dick and Harry thinks he knows it, but he is mistaken... I consider it quite possible that physics cannot be based on the field concept, i.e., on continuous structures. In that case, nothing remains of my entire castle in the air, gravitation theory included, [and of] the rest of modern physics”: Albert Einstein, quoted by A Pais, Subtle is the Lord …”The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein”, Oxford University Press, (1982) 467] :
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Am_I_the_only_one_that_is_doubtful_of_LIGOs_detection_of_gravitational_wave_GW150914
Quantum Dialectical Physics and the Virtual Particles:
Virtual (matter-antimatter pair) particles are “virtual” only because of their momentary existence and because of the fact that they do not follow the conservation laws manufactured (in thought) by theology and official theoretical physics and cosmology. Otherwise, they are very real indeed and the only source and sink of all matter and motion in this infinite, eternal and ever-changing universe! “New Physics – The Negation of Einstein’s Theories of Relativity”. JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN PHYSICS, 22, 54–61. https://doi.org/10.24297/jap.v22i.9594
"Ex nihilo nihil fit“? Are You Certain Mr. Einstein and Mr. Heisenberg?: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Ex_nihilo_nihil_fit_Are_You_Certain_Mr_Einstein_and_Mr_Heisenberg2
(Please note; Active links to the articles cited below are available from this link)
Is the Uncertainty Principle just a measurement problem or a fundamental aspect of the sub-structure of objective reality? These are both scientific and philosophical questions brought to focus through some recent publications:
Scientific: "Are you certain Mr. Heisenberg"? https://phys.org/news/2012-01-heisenberg-deepen-quantum-uncertainty.html
Article Experimental demonstration of a universally valid error-dist...
https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys2194
Article Real/Virtual Exchange of Quantum Particles as a Basis for th...
Philosophical: The quantum vacuum, the "virtual particles" and their transformation to "real particles" may be understood in terms of the "Being-Nothing-Becoming" of Hegel's ontological triad :
Article The Philosophy of Space-Time: Whence Cometh "Matter" and "Motion"?
https://www.amazon.ca/Philosophy-Space-Time-Whence-Cometh-Matter/dp/984041884X
https://www.amazon.ca/Dialectical-Universe-Reflections-Cosmology-2012-02-15/dp/B01FGO0M5M
Dialectics Not Metaphysics of Nature: : https://www.amazon.ca/DIALECTICS-NOT-METAPHYSICS-NATURE-QUANTUM-ebook/dp/B0BF5W9Q1N
The conservation laws (of energy/mass) in physics and thermodynamics, including "Ex nihilo nihil fit" of philosophy are assumed a priori truths, but these are only valid at macroscopic scale. Nature at quantum level is fundamentally uncertain – it is not a statistical aberration – but a fact and a phenomena ascertained by Quantum Electro Dynamics (QED). The law of the conservation of mass/energy of thermodynamics and physics breaks down at quantum level and creation “ex nihilo” is practically feasible!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/something-from-nothing-vacuum-can-yield-flashes-of-light/
https://www.accessscience.com/content/electron-positron-pair-production-and-annihilation/224710
The quantum vacuum is full of "virtual particle/antiparticle pairs" that continuously pop in and out of existence and their effect on the spectral lines of atoms known as the "Lamb Shift" and the Lande factor of magnetic moment of electrons that relies on the concept of virtual particles can be very accurately measured. This effect can also be measured as the Casimir force with much less efficiency. The permittivity and the permeability of the classical vacuum can be attributed to collective effect of the momentary existence of infinite number of virtual particles of the quantum vacuum
The "virtual particles" can become "real particles" if sufficient energy equivalent to compensate for their mass is available. There is also a finite probability that a "virtual particle" can become "real" (even without sufficient energy for mass equivalence) through a phenomena known as "quantum tunnelling". In fact it is possible that this spontaneous creation (ex nihilo) of fundamental particles from the quantum vacuum (and not through the Big Bang) is how the galaxies (along with all other things) evolve, “come into being and pass out of existence” and maintained throughout this infinite and eternal universe as asserted by dialectics:
Article Ambartsumian, Arp and the Breeding Galaxies*
Article The Cosmic Gamma-Ray Halo - New Imperative for a Dialectical...
It has been made abundantly clear in these publications that the uncertainty principle is not just a simple measurement or statistical problem as is commonly assumed. Uncertainty and the breakdown of the conservation laws at the substructure of quantum level is a fundamental aspect of objective reality. At macroscopic (human) scale the objective reality is just a gross, averaged-out, summed-up and apparently stable superstructure of micro-level quantum uncertainty. Physics needs a revolutionary change of its epistemology - from traditional causality to dialectical materialism; to deal with this new revolutionary aspect of objective reality!
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