(January 30, 2012 at 10:15 pm)passionatefool Wrote: welcome. I would love to hear more elaboration on what you would consider "spiritual essence" of reality.
Hope you enjoy your stay and share your knowledge of physics. I'm a sucker for physics but just never seem to understand it lol.
Well, truth be known, even the best physicists in the world don't understand physics. They may understand the theories and the mathematics, but ask them if the mathematics makes any intuitive sense and they'll quickly confess that it does not.
Of course, this doesn't apply to mundane Newtonian Physics. But I'm addressing Modern Physics and our deeper investigation into the nature of reality. There is much that is unknown. In fact, those who believe that science has a really good grasp on "reality" are the ones who need to take a deeper look at what is truly known, and not known.
So if you don't understand physics you've got a lot of company. Include Nobel Prize winners of Physics awards.
Here's what out best Quantum Physicist had to say about Quantum Mechanics.
"Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'but how can it by like that? Nobody knows how it can be like that." - Richard Feynman
And it's true. Nobody truly "understand" physics even today. You can understand the mathematics and the theories intellectually. But no one has yet been able to make any sense of them in terms of real understanding.
It's a mystery.
In other words, thus far Science = Mysticism when it comes to the core of understanding reality. The scientists aren't any closer to knowing truth than the Eastern Mystics were. In fact, the scientists have only shown that there does indeed exist a way for the Mystics to be right.
