Is Obama really going to repeal the laws of physics as part of his program to heal the planet?
Yes, he is. The "laws of Politics." There are laws governing human interaction, [known in philosophy as "Politics"], just as there are laws of motion.
None of us would want to be a passenger in a plane designed by people who couldn't define "F=MA," yet we vote for rulers that can't define the premises they use to govern us.
My first premise is when looking at the universe is:
"Everything is connected to everything else."
To me, it's like a river. The headwaters are Philosophy. where we formulate the rules to use to look at the universe. Plato said, "there are two universes, the known and the unknown." Aristotle said, "this is the real world, there isn't any other." He also said, "use reason to discover how it works."
I follow Aristotle.
Next "down river" is your subject, Classical Physics. Where you really spend all of your time talking about energy, energy, energy, and the rules that affect it's use and conversion, such as time and matter. Because that is all that is in the universe. Which will remain a bit of a muddle until the gravity question is answered. Although I still have trouble getting my brain around the elasticity of time concept.
There once was a lady named Bright,
Who traveled faster than light.
She set out one day,
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.
Then Biology, which is still at such a primitive stage that they have never even defined "Life" yet. Best definition of Life that I have read is an operational one:
"Life is an open, thermodynamic process that organizes energy."
Next down river is the individual. What should I do. We call this "Ethics." The study of what is best for each of us.
And finally, down river, "Politics." The study of how we should deal with each other. We not only do not agree to any firm rules in this area, we try to violate known ones of Physics. For instance, a law of thermodynamics when we try to get something for nothing. That's why we fail at Politics. "You can't fool Mother Nature!"
I find that looking at the Universe this way really helps me to integrate knowledge. Without it, info coming in tends to get put in the wrong sub-section of my memory. I was taught to look at the world this way about 45 years ago, and it not only gave me a better way of looking ahead, it structured everything I then knew so that I could use it better. |
