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From: OsherD on 24 Apr 2010 01:08
From Osher Doctorow

The German scientists Heisenberg and Einstein among others had an
extreme fascination with light. This resulted in 3 theories or
principles:

1) The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle or HUP.
2) Special Relativity.
3) General Relativity.

Yet the Universe is not mostly composed of light. It is not even
mostly composed of "empty space", "empty spacetime", or "ordinary
matter". It appears to be full of Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and
other constituents.

I have recently changed the direction of this Quantum Gravity thread
from supporting both Microscopic reseach and Astronomical Macroscopic
Research (Stellar Systems, Galaxies, etc.) to Earthlike or Human Scale/
Scenario Physics (HSP). In my view, Classical HSP physics is not
merely an "extreme case" or "limiting case" of the other theories, but
is the Basic physics, while the others are extremes - either extremely
high speeds/velocities, extremely large objects, extremely small
objects, or even distortions of physics due to remoteness from human
Observers.

Let us ask: what does light actually tell us on the human level
(HSP)? And here we come to an enormous puzzle. The human organism
perceives light, sound, touch, taste, smell, but it tends to be most
MISLED by light in various ways such as the Entertainment Industry
which relies mostly on visual effects, the Academic "Imitation"
institutions which tend to be visually oriented, and even the News
Media which tend to be visually oriented (TV, and even now videos on
the internet, as well as Headlines and pictures in newspapers,
etc.). Political Elections are decided on how a Candidate LOOKS, not
what he thinks or means or has abilities in.

Light and the electron beams which "simulate" it or "parallel" it are
actually not PHYSICALLY INTUITIVE at all. They mask more than they
reveal, and even worse than that, they tend to distort things. True,
light and electron beams under certain conditions involving
constructive/destructive interference have some similarities to
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (HUP), but there is nothing really
Intuitive there physically - HUP is more of a technical approximation
involving quantities (wavelength, source distances, etc.) that
themselves are not Intuitive! Light and electron beams are
INTERESTING, but not because they are Intuitive but rather because
they involve Anomalies and Paradoxes! They involve distortions!

But what is Intuitive at the Human Scale Physics (HSP)? Push and
Pull. Geometry. Orbits. Textures. Speed/velocity. Acceleration.
Heat. Temperature. Charge. Weight. Expansion and Contraction.
Phases of matter. Topology, especially holes. Continuity.
Connection. Disconnection. Even life, logic, mathematics. Bending
or stretching.

It was Sir Isaac Newton who more than anyone before him introduced us
to Push and Pull! Kepler had already introduced Orbits, together with
Galileo's Push/Pull. Sir Robert Hooke introduced Bending or
Stretching. What later generations, such as that of Penrose and
Hawking, introduced, namely black holes, pale in comparison! I
should also mention Pierre de Fermat of France, who prior to Sir Isaac
introduced us to key equations of Integral Calculus and to Probability
(together with Pascal).

Osher Doctorow
From: OsherD on 24 Apr 2010 01:13
From Osher Doctorow

I should also add that there is a curious "prehistoric-historic"
version of the Anthropic Principle regarding living organisms' senses
or sense receptors. "Touch" receptors and even "Smell (olfactory)"
receptors appear to be PRIOR to Visual receptors and in a number of
ways more basic. Sound receptors also appear to be more basic. In a
way, they may incorporate deeper rather than "regressive" aspects of
the Universe.

Osher Doctorow
From: OsherD on 24 Apr 2010 01:34
From Osher Doctorow

I mentioned shape and geometry as Intuitive, and it might be asked how
we could obtain an idea of these without light? Well, by touch for
one thing. However, there are aspects of light that are more
Intuitive than others, but those aspects are related to Memory in
human beings and thus to time - a key aspect of Probable Causation/
Influence (PI). The constancy of light in a particular medium is
Intuitive, not its distortion by gravitational fields or its HUP
aspects.

But the constancy of light in a particular medium comes from expansion
from a source, and expansion-contraction are Intuitive. So is
constancy. Bragg's Law of Diffraction, however, is not a statement
of constancy but of variation, and is also not intuitive, like what it
resembles (HUP).

So the Intuitive aspects of light are related in SIMPLE FORM to Memory
and constancy (time) and Expansion/Contraction (space) and type of
medium (matter). It is the Human Scale/Scenario Physics (HSP) of
light that is of key importance.

Osher Doctorow
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