RE: A Conscious Universe
January 29, 2015 at 6:50 am
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2015 at 6:50 am by bennyboy.)
(January 29, 2015 at 5:49 am)Alex K Wrote: They are very small and pointy.
Quote:But in seriousness, to remain in your vein - according to our current theoretical description of photons, they are quantum mechanical point particles occupying no volume in space as particles. Their wave functions can be extended in space in the theory, but are not observable per se. This does not mean that nature itself has these properties, and it's not even clear what it would mean if it had.
So take relativity, which we've talked about a little: there's no "set" scale for time or space, only a description of how different references relate to each other. Now, we have a "thing" which occupies no space and is describable only mathematically.
By what criteria do you differentiate from this view, which is supposed to be descriptive of physical reality, from an idealistic reality, in which these things we cannot see are considered only universal (forgive the apparent equivocation) expressions of ideas?