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To: epicure who wrote (27709)	1/6/1999 9:20:00 AM
From: Sam Ferguson	Respond to of 108807

"After all with modern physics it becomes possible to believe in very interesting things - it seems to me modern physics approaches philosophy, and thus myth. So perhaps that is a confluence between science and myth." Fritjof Capra has written a best seller,"The Tao of Physics." He lucidly analyzes the tenets of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism to show their parallels with the latest discoveries in cyclotrons. If it isn't available from the library the paperback is arounf 15 bucks at one of the online book stores.

To: epicure who wrote (27709)	1/8/1999 1:19:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 108807

Physics and philosophy have been intertwined from the beginning. All our ideas spring from what we think the world to be. All our observations and measurements are packaged in how we ask the questions. To learn something in science first the question needs to be framed. In its most direct form, the math (a language of pure pattern and abstraction) needs to precede gaining information from observation. The philosophical framework needs to be there first. Without it, a discovery can stare a researcher right in the face and be missed because it has no frame of reference to point out "this is important". Roald Hoffmann, a Nobel laureate, once gave a real neat lecture in which he developed the idea that the prevailing mythos of an era dictates its technology. The primacy of Revealed Truth (a rather inflexible frame) and its handmaiden, Aristotelian cosmology, "froze" the Dark Ages until the Renaissance guys had the moxie to think "outside the box". The clockwork universe reigned supreme until our century brought us Kierkegaard and Planck. What will be the guiding mythos of the next century? Mythos is a guiding concept, a distillation of philosophy. It is distinct from myth- a story meant to illustrate an idea.