From: Jasper
Date: 5/11/03
Time: 8:48:03 PM
Remote User:
Jean and Charlie,
Leaving out quantum mechanics, for now, it always interests me when I see something about the fusion of physics and metaphysics.
Both of these approaches to discovering the secrets of the universe have assets and flaws. Metaphysics give you an open approach to accepting things that are not easily explained but explanations that depend too much on professional psychics and magicians to guard against fraud. With physics you get a skeptical approach to accepting things that are not easily explained. It guards against fraud but gives you explanations that depend to much on professional mathematicians and scientists who regard anything they can’t explain as superstition or fraud. You can’t go the whole way with either approach.
It seems to me that metaphysics does the best job of recognizing natural phenomena that’s too weird or scary for most people to openly acknowledge and physics does the best job of discovering the mechanisms by which they work.
Take water, for example, one of the most exotic substances in the universe. You find it in the form of a solid, a liquid and a vapor. It’s still the same stuff and when you examine it microscopically in its boiling state after it has been frozen (that’s got to be hard) you find ice crystals. When you cool most things they shrink. Water expands. If you vibrate the water in one glass at a certain frequency, a glass of water on another table will resonate with the same frequency.
80 percent of the human body is made up of water. Throw in a few common chemicals, a DNA template and an electrical charge and you’ve got your self a critter that’s made for performing all kinds of miracles. –Jasper