RE: Are Particles 'Physical Things' or 'Abstract Ideas'?
April 13, 2015 at 9:38 am
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2015 at 9:55 am by Mudhammam.)
(April 12, 2015 at 10:37 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Do we know for a certainty that all electrons everywhere, whatever they basically may be, regardless of their size or lack thereof, are all each and everyone one of them absolutely totally identical to each other ?If you were ever able to ask the "Deity" that question, I suspect it would give you the same answer you gave yourself.
Turns out they are, it's a pity I don't recall why . . .
With regards to the ancients and the particular issue of time, or absolute vs. changing forms (realizing they were inseparable from matter for Aristotle in a way Plato's Ideas were not), one might say this debate really started with Heruclitus and Parmenides. My own speculation finds it increasingly and (counter-)intuitively pleasing to conceive of the idea that the ONE being is William James "specious present" (regardless of however one might quantify the gaps between each "photographic moment") and the MANY being(s) are the configuration spaces in which each NOW resides... simultaneously, as in NOW!
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
