Physicists are almost invariably mistaken. They think the passage from classical physics to #quantumphysics is a passage from effects to cause. It’s just the other way around! The transition is from being to non-being:
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non-being in the form of Aristotelean “potentae.” So Heisenberg had it completely right, and just about everyone else had it completely wrong. Another way of making the point is to say that physics thinks of itself as self-sufficient, but it isn’t. It cannot be.
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Physics deals with something that is bigger than all of its conceptions put together. The division between classical physics and #quantumtheory is the division between physics which still has being to a physics with no being at all. 3/5
Without irreducible wholeness, there is no being. So the physicist is in a very unfortunate position because—by his very modus operandi—he can only understand things to the extent that they have no irreducible wholeness and no being. 4/5
So he is, as it were, condemned to deal with shadows—the very shadows that Plato was talking about in the myth of the cave.
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—Wolfgang Smith
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—Wolfgang Smith
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