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Originally Posted by Blacklight
Physics and Cosmology is a subject I read quite a bit about (About half of the bookcase in this room is full of books on the subjects). It's very interesting stuff.
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It is indeed, but a dangerous deed of daring to balance on a small edge between the lovely rosegarden of imgination with the artist's brush lead by reason and observation on the one side, and the abyss of a hungry jaw of madness, going nuts, and superstitition on the other side.
In the end, all science is just our artifical order that we try to design and sometimes rearrange so that what we believe to observe seems to fit best into it'S orders and categories. Being capable to do so, fulfills our hunger for controlling things, for man cannot stand to be at the mercy of fate or random events that are beyond his knowledge and controllability. We NEED the feeling that we can control our fate and that way protect our existence and enforce our justified stand in the universe. But scientific order is not the essence of nature, but it is OUR artifical order and OUR set of invented mental categories. Science does not really reveal reality - we
create our reality by it, and our invention of scientific models feed back into our perception and reasoning by filtering these perceptions of the world as well as our interpretations of it. It's like our mind dancing with it'S plenty of ideas, and the waltz itself that is resulting is what we call the world, or the ball. If you want to learn about the space up there and out there, you need to familiarize yourself with the space within your mind. Both are one and the same space I am sure, with different soap bubbles in it, and some are bigger and some are smaller, but both inside and outside each bubble it is one and the same space nevertheless. Just that some bubbles hold smaller bubbles inside of them, and so on. Bu even in the most inner buble there is, you have nothing else than the same empty space like outside the most pouter bubble.
Over 20 years ago, Gary Zukav named his famous physics book "the dancing Wu Li masters", some people who read Fritjof Capras "The Tao of Physics" back then also may have read his book as well. Wu Li is the chinese term that equals what we call "physics", he said, and it means "structures of organic energy". I like that description much better than our word "physics", for it became clear that we need to learn that we do not deal so much with solid structures, but ever changing patterns, and not with solid matter in the meaning of "object", but movement that creates the illusion of form, but in reality both object and movement is just energy.