This is certainly why Einstein, who began the whole God craze in physics, attacked the weirdness of quantum mechanics with this famous line: "God does not play dice." Then we had Wolfgang Pauli's, “Ich glaube aber nicht, daß der Herrgott ein schwacher Linkshänder ist” (I cannot believe that God is a weak left-hander). Physics can't stop talking about God because it wants the right to name God. And the fact that one (the monster) can be compared with the other (perfection) makes it clear that both are metaphysical propositions.
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In my view of things, God looks much more like "the platypus, an aardvark, and a whale" monster than the something that looks exactly the same no matter how one looks at it.
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The resulting animal, it was said, was one (One physicist compared it to taping a platypus, an aardvark, and a whale together and declaring it to be nature’s most elegant creature. the Standard Model was created by splicing together by hand the theories that described the variousįorces, so the resulting theory was a patchwork. Here is Kaku on the Standard Model, a mathematical description of reality that was developed in the years following World War II, and that presently describes the nature of known matter-related particles (Fermions-or, the stuff) and force-related particles (Bosons-or, what keeps stuff together): Support local, independent media with a one-time or recurring contribution. More than ever, we depend on your support to help fund our coverage. It is instead a misrecognition that can be blamed on a culture that's market-oriented in a very specific way.
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But no such grand history of progress exists. There are the pre-Socratics (the first home of the atom), then the Golden Age of Athens, then the medieval schoolmen, then the moderns, the postmoderns, and, finally, the mind-boggling speculations of string theorists. This imposes a linear, historical narrative on this science. (Kaku is not interested in the third important program in physics, which deals with laws of heat and achieves its mathematical status at the end of the 19th century.)Īnother problem is found in the book's opening chapter, which connects physics as interpreted and elaborated by the modern moment (Galileo Galilei and Newton), with ancient concepts about the source of reality. The former was developed in the first decade of the 20th century the latter in the second decade. There is the theory of general relativity, which has one name attached to it, that of Albert Einstein and there is quantum mechanics, which has a whole city attached to it, Copenhagen.