--- title: 'It ain''t just physical" . . .' slug: 'it-aint-just-physical' date: 2022-09-29 type: 'post' status: 'published' tags: ['faith', 'constant-contact-archive'] abstract: '‌ To more effectively protect the environment, we must move past our understanding of the environment as fundamentally and merely physical , , , ---"Is the world fundamentally physical?" - Jed Anderso…' license: 'CC-BY-4.0' author: 'Jed Anderson' co_authors: [] canonical_url: 'https://jedanderson.org/posts/it-aint-just-physical' original_source: 'Constant Contact campaign' supporting_files: [] --- ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-01.png) ‌ To more effectively protect the environment, we must move past our understanding of the environment as fundamentally and merely physical , , , ---"Is the world fundamentally physical?" - Jed Anderson, EnviroAI ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-02.gif) We now know that this is what the world more fundamentally "looks" like "below the surface" of things. ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-03.gif) Yup. It doesn't really "look" like anything. It's not physical waves. It's not physical particles. IT'S A PROBABILITY WAVE FUNCTION. What causes the probability wave function to turn into the physical world around us . . . we don't know yet. The way it looks "underneath the surface" doesn't affect it's beauty on the surface in my opinion. It's still beautiful. In fact, I think it's more beautiful with this deeper understanding. DISCLAIMER: You cannot blame me if you don't like the way it more fundamentally "looks" "underneath the surface". I didn't make it this way. You can point that finger at God if you find it upsetting. And I didn't discover or prove it was this way. You can point that finger at Einstein, Bohr, Heisnberg, Schroedinger, de Broglie, Dirac, Maxwell, Planck, Bohm, Pauli, Bell, and Clauser. Personally I think it looks cooler. I like it. But it really doesn't matter whether I like it or not. My personal feeling or comfortability with truth doesn't define it. Truth will not adjust its perceptibility to my reality. I must adjust my perception of reality to truth. Truth is truth. It's just deeper truth. ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-04.jpg) ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-05.jpg) ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-06.jpg) ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-07.gif) MORE TRUTH IS ALWAYS GOOD . . . If you lived in the 1500's, would you tell your kids the world is flat? No. . . . If you lived in the 1800's, would you tell your kids the sun travels around the earth? No. . . . If you live in the 2020's, would you tell your kids that matter in and around them at the most fundamental level of our understanding is "physical"? ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-08.gif) PHYSICS The continual iconoclastic evolution in our understanding of physics . . . - Aristotelian Physics (345 BC) - [Universe is made of 5 elements](https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001uHpNpTz3Ars5Xym_7wmbY9gdRgd5ZFUG92SAQAINR9rQyEN8WJ6RQbW8Uq2cqnS4YQ7r5ap0gnco1ZYdaJYTvnJuXLBjDFPp4Is-NpL4s6JwVUfbYZq-g-D8Y_M0k0E09ao6jv8lR1l5lpFHm-FxSN36wjKwsqUMQTjKhrdgCWA84R18qy926A==&c=&ch=): earth, air, fire, water, and aether. Objects have natural motions: those of earth and water tend to fall; those of air and fire, to rise. - Galilean Physics (1592) - Galileo determines first laws of motion by experimentation - Develops the concepts of: velocity, force, and inertia - natural state of motion is uniform motion or rest - objects fall at same rate regardless of mass - Keplerian Physics (1609) - Kepler produces first kinematic description of orbits - Each object moves in an elliptical orbit - Newtonian Physics ("Classical Physics" (1687) - Newton provides dynamical description of universe, using: 1. acceleration 2. momentum 3. conservation laws [Jed description: Everything on an xyz axis in space-time] - Quantum Physics ("Modern Physics) (1931) - Particles are waves and vice-versa - Probability is all we ever know - Measurement determines reality [Jed description: Everything is probabilities] - \_\_\_\_\_\_? ("Post-Modern" Physics)(\_\_\_\_) ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-09.jpg) COSMOLOGY The continual iconoclastic evolution in our cosmological understanding of the universe . . . - Our Earth is round not flat (this notion of a round earth is contrary to intuition and most of our everyday experience--i.e. over 1/2 of us are hanging upside on this thing) - 500 B.C. (Pythagorus) [Eratosthenes calculated circumference in 240 B.C. and of course Columbus didn't sail off the edge of the earth when he tried it almost 2000 years later] - Our Earth isn't the center of the universe[earth rotates around the sun] - 240 B.C. (Aristarchus) [Calculations by Copernicus in 1532 and astronomical observations by Galileo in 1632] - Our sun isn't the center of the universe[stars are other suns] - 450 B.C. (Anaxagoras) [Bruno in 1584 and then Angelo Secchi proved through spectroscopy in 1860] - Our galaxy isn't the center of the universe - 964 (Azophi) [Later Kant, Messier, Shapley, and finally Edwin Hubble . . . January 1, 1925"The day we discovered the universe"] - Our universe isn't the center of the Universe [or Multiverse]- \_\_\_\_\_? ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-10.jpg) ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-11.jpg) ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-12.jpg) ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-13.jpg) ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-14.jpg) ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-15.jpg) ---"As usual, nature’s imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep." - Richard Feynman ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-16.png) ---"I think physics is about done with reductionism. It's taken us a long way, but the next jump in physics I think will unleash much higher levels in imaginative heuristics. And then look out universe! Here comes humanity!"- Jed Anderson ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-17.gif) ![](/images/posts/it-aint-just-physical/img-18.gif)