Roots and Branches

Physics Meets Mysticism The ALL changes constantly by the initiative of his parts. Author unknown to me. Syntax A man staring at his equations  said that the universe had a beginning.  There had been an explosion, he said.  A bang of bangs, and the universe was born.  And it is expanding, he said.  He had even calculated the length of its life:  ten billion revolutions of the earth around the sun.  The entire globe cheered;  They found his calculations to be science.  None thought that by proposing that the universe began,  the man had merely mirrored the syntax of his mother tongue;  a syntax which demands beginnings, like birth,  and developments, like maturation,  and ends, like death, as statements of facts.  The universe began,  and it is getting old, the man assured us,  and it will die, like all things die,  like he himself died after confirming mathematically  the sy...

The Decline of the Purely Mechanistic View of the World Continues After the publication of the Special Theory of Relativity (1905) Einstein worked on a refinement and generalization of this theory, which he published in 1915. It became famous as  General Theory of Relativity . Einstein's General Theory of Relativity gave the classical mechanistic world view another very violent blow. Its most succinct statements are that clocks slow down under the influence of gravity (the stronger the force of gravity the more clocks slow down); that matter can condense so much that its gravity becomes so strong that nothing can leave its sphere of influence, not even the light – these are the so-called "black holes";  that our universe is expanding and about 15 to 18 billion years ago must have come out of an infinitely small, infinitely dense and infinitely hot matter accumulation – this singularity is the so-called big bang (today's physics has available scenarios that all...