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The New Physics and the Anthropic Connection

Is there such an phenomena possible in the experience of the
human consciousness, that it may be said to represent a;
"Recepy for the Universe," or a "Theory of Everything."

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The New Physics
and
The Anthropic Connection.
An Introductory Lecture on the Progression of Physics in the 20TH
Century. The Relationship of the Observer, his Consciousness, to
these. A General Description of the QREST-FIELD GUT/TOE
Paradigm Subject.
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A Recipe for the Universe. A Description of the Theme of; "The
Little Scroll" Books.

The Great Search; Is it a Search for Something we have Lost, or is
it Perhaps our Age Old Search for Ourselves? A General
Description of the Progression of Reductionism and Quantum
Mechanics, and the Failure to Include the Observer in the Analyses.
Has Physics Abandoned Hope of Connecting the Observer to it's
Theories of the Universe? Some Contemplations on Man's Search
for the Ultimate Knowledge and Understanding.

A part of the introduction to "The Little Scroll" book three. Note;
This essay is taken in part from the writings of Johann Grolle, F.
David Peat, Richard M. Restac, Stephen Hawking, John Boslough
and others.
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The Great Search.
Many years after Thomas Alva Edison had become famous, he was
asked about his experience at the discovery of the light-bulb.
Edison's reply, and he may have had the anecdote from others; "I
was just like a little boy walking on the beach where I saw a stone
which seemed different from the rest. I picked up the stone and saw
why it was so."

During the former age of information in the history of man--the age
of enlightenment in the West--the Greek age of antiquity's period of
philosophy, science and art, which lasted for about 800 years, or
from about 400 before, until about 400 after Christ, the famous
Agora at the root of the Acropolis, became one of the prime arena
in Man's discussion on the nature of the World, Man and Reality.
The philosophers of the time, which ever they were, Stoics,
Pythagoreans, Epicureans or Platonists, discussed and scrutinized
all subjects and left no stones untouched. At the onset of the dark
period in the history of the spirit of Man in the West--the middle
ages which began at the burning of Hypothesa's library in
Alexandria about 400 years after Christ--Men began telling each
other which stones were permitted to be scrutinized and which not.
This control on the search for knowledge had most of its roots in
religion. The period lasted for about 1200 years, during which it
not only Men were condemned but also much of the scrutiny of
Nature as well, that is if it did not have to do with the attempts at
making gold. In this Galileo and Bruno became the most famous
examples.

In the beginning of the renaissance around the end of the 15th
century, the British philosopher and nature-scientist Sir Francis
Bacon made the following comment; "There are two revelations in
reality; The first is given to us in scripture and tradition, and it
guided our thinking for centuries. The second revelation is given by
the Universe, and that book we are just beginning to read." This
prognosis of Bacon turned out to be true and the spirit of the
philosophers was reborn in the form of natural-philosophers which
later evolved into the different disciplines of the natural sciences.
Disciplines which have, for the last 400 years, been progressing
away from each other. The motto of the sciences soon became;
"Nullius in Verba," or, words alone are not enough. This in turn
brought about the doctrines of empiricism and positivism, or the
demand that the statement of the investigator be proven through
predictions which later would appear as facts in experiments. This
has now been the guiding light of the sciences for the last four
hundred years and has justified itself in most fields as concerns the
investigation into physical reality. This method has particular
proven itself in the so called reductionism which proposes to seek
the nature of exerting by tearing it into ever smaller fractions. This
motto has however on the other hand, brought about a new type of
limitation into the investigation of nature and a decision as to what
stones may be scrutinized.

Now, in the later part of the twentieth century, it has come to pass
that some of the special disciplines of the sciences have begun to
approach each other, and even unify. This, however, is not coming
about through some ideology of the scientists, rather the nature of
the evolution of the investigation. This in turn has brought about
critic and reassessment of the methods of the sciences--amongst the
scientists them selves--this to the traditional methods of
investigation and their limitations. The prime targets of this critic
have been the phenomena that appear in the high energy
accelerators of theoretical physics. This is where Man has been
seeking the ultimate explanations for existence. At the onset of the
century, on the 14th of December 1900, on the birthday of the New
Physics, Max Plank presented the findings of his investigation into
the ultraviolet radiation and solved the enigma of the so called
ultra-violet catastrophe. At this time it was generally assumed that
physics could explain everything, only this one thing seemed to
throw a shadow, but this was the fact that ultraviolet radiation
violated the known laws of nature, all of which were believed to be
known. Plank's finding now destroyed this believe of Man.

With the evolution of the New Physics, Man now acquired two
classes of Physical Laws, instead of one. Forty-five years after this
beginning, this lead to the detonation of the Plutonium bomb in
Alamogordo in New Mexico and thereby the onset of the Age of
the Atom. The story of the evolution of the New Physics, quantum
physics, is a story of a discipline which tells us that the material
part of the Universe, even Space itself, are composed of energy
units whose smallest division is one quanta. This story is seen by
many as the most magnificent part of the evolutionary history of
Man's search for knowledge and understanding.

Ever since Rutherford, at the beginning of the century, began his
famous experiments by firing alpha particles at thin gold-foils, and
along with Bohr, created our new ideas of the Atom, this method
has been evolving in the building of ever larger accelerators, with
ever increasing energy. In this we have been asking nature
questions and she has been replying to us. In turn we have had to
use the discipline of mathematics to understand the answers. This
has been relatively successful but none the less critic on this
method has appeared in the form of metaphors which suggest that
this is like someone taking a sledge hammer and with it,
granulating grandpas watch, then getting someone, who has never
seen a watch, to investigate the fragments and then tell what they
once were and how they worked together. The critic has been
connected to doubts about our interpretation and understanding of
natures answers.

The Ghost in the Machine.
The physicists have pointed out that Nature does not deceive us in
her replies and that mathematics are a language which does not
permit delusions. On the other hand the minds of Man are quite
often caught being delusioned. However, a problem is still
associated with our understanding of the replies of nature in the
symbolism of mathematics and in spit of the unquestionable and
grandiose success of quantum physics, it is still, as Stephen
Hawking has said; "Basically a theory about something which we
do not know and can not predict." Here the reference is to the fact
that although we can control the outcome statistically, we do not
know what is happening. Quantum mechanical investigation of the
physical world have brought with it a ghost which has proven
difficult to exorcise. This ghost has repeatedly reappeared and has
caused many a physicist to sneer in disgust when ever it has been
mentioned. The ghost is in the form of the demand for the observer,
the scientific investigator, Man himself, be included in the outcome
of the experiment. Even that he be included in the mathematical
equations of quantum mechanics. Here the most famous is the
thought experiment of Schr?dinger of the cat in the box.

The trail of the ghost is to be found in remarkable remarks of many
of the physicists and it can be said that Plank himself had this
initiated in 1931, when he said; "Science can never solve the
enigma of Nature, and this is because that in the final analyzes, we
our selves are a part of the puzzle which we are trying to solve."

Right at the onset of the evolution of the discoveries of quantum
mechanics, the British physicists Sir James Jeans quipped; "The
Universe begins to look more like a great thought than a machine."
Later, Adolf Portmann, commented on this; "It is now known that
the natural sciences have arrived at the borders of the physically
knowable. They have had to acknowledge an infinite mystical
domain behind all life." The temperamental Nobel laureate,
Wolfgang Pauli, did not make much fuss about this question but
went to see Carl Gustafs Jung in his search for an understanding of
the connection between the observer and the experiment. Later
Pauli was quoted; "Behind reality there is an elevated and
independent order which both the spirit of the observer, as well as
the object of investigation, are subject to."

When David Bohm later sought out Kristnamurti, then he was not
the first physicist of the New Physics, who turned to those who
investigate the spirit of Man. Their discourse, which ended up
dealing whit the question; "What happened to humanity? Did we
take a wrong turn somewhere on the way? in the book The Ending
of Time, turns out to be most interesting.

The physicist Brandon Carter has pointed out; "According to the
basic laws of physics, we have to include the characteristics of the
instruments. Here, we the observer, must be counted amongst the
instruments." And the grand old man of physics, John A. Wheeler,
has here commented; "Nothing is more important about quantum
physics than this: it has destroyed the concept of the world as
'sitting out there.' The universe will never afterwards be the same.

These remarks are not new in the history of Man and have been
heard at other times in history. 2400 years Protagoras pointed out
that; "Man is the measurer of all things."

In spit of many attempts at including the observer in the outcome of
the experiments, this has not succeeded. There has not even been
anything which could be classified as being close to some kind of
success and Stephen Hawking says; "Although we know the basic
equations which bring together all of our biology, we have not been
able to bring together any investigation of human behavior into the
branch of applied mathematics." The physicist and Nobel laureate,
Eugene Wigner, has claimed that; "Man will never understand
physical reality unless he takes into account the self-reflecting
properties of his consciousness." Francis of Assisi had described
these difficulties thus; "Who is it that does the knowing? -- What
we are seeking is that which is seeking." Berkeley bishop is known
for remarks of this nature.

In the seventies, some physicists presented a model of the Universe,
The Holographic Paradigm, and for a time there was much to do
about this model. This further lead to the first, in modern times,
connections between the so called real sciences, that is physics and
biology, and real believes, believes where Men say not just that
they believe, but that they know. Here the reference is to the
spiritual sciences: Theosophy and the wisdom which men gain in a
changed state of consciousness.

In 1978 Lawrence Beynam made the following claims; "We are
currently undergoing a paradigm shift in science--perhaps the
greatest shift of its kind to date. It is for the first time that we have
stumbled upon a comprehensive model for mystical experiences,
which has the additional advantages of deriving from the forefront
of contemporary physics." Six years later, the grand commentator of
mystical phenomena, Ken Wilber, wrote a brilliant critical appraisal
of these ideas and called it; Physics, Mysticism, and the new
Holographic Paradigm. In this it may be said that he wiped out the
hopes of those who saw before them the marriage of mysticism and
physics. In this article Wilber paraphrased Eckhart; "If your God is
the God of today's physics, then where ever that physics goes
(tomorrow), that God goes with it."

None the less, this model lead to some physicists beginning to see
connections between their work and the philosophy behind Eastern
Mysticism, and here soared the writings of Fritjof Capra; The Tao
of Physics and Gary Zukav; The Dancing Wu Li Masters. - - In his
book Capra used the ideas of David Bohm: "Quantum theory forces
us to see the universe not as a collection of physical objects, but
rather as a unified whole....All [physical] particles are dynamically
composed of one another in a self-consistent way, and in that sense
can be said to 'contain' one another. In [this theory], the emphasis is
on the interaction, or 'interpenetration,' of all particles."

The Virtual Energy of the Vacuum.
But there are more ghosts on the trail of the New Physics in the
twentieth century, and here we should primarily name the so called
mathematical renormalization technique which is used on the
energy exchanges of the fermions (permanent matter particles). In
the last years of the twenties, experimental physicists succeeded in
seeing the energy exchanges of the electron. It was discovered that
for this the electron exchanged the photon as a force carrier, or by
sending and receiving a photon. As an aid in this the electron
borrowed some virtual energy from the surrounding space.

REMARK: Virtual energy of space is something which one
physicist, Karl von Weizecker, has dared to refer to as prana, and at
the same time claim that Man had access to this energy.

When the physicists now began to investigate the energy exchanges
of the electron, it was discovered that the mathematics told them
that it (the electron) was endowed with infinite energy while it was
engaged in the exchange. This was of course an absurdity for the
physicists and to solve this problem a mathematical renormalization
process was created to whip this out. When the father of Quantum
Electro Dynamics (QED), the Nobel laureate Paul Dirac, heard
about this, he sternly protested claiming that this meant that
something was being swept under the rug. The causes were not
investigated and the phenomena not explained. There are still
existing doubts about this solution.

But what is all the search of the New Physics really about? On the
13th of June 1988 the weekly, Newsweek, presented a interview
with professor Stephen Hawking on the occasion of the publication
of his book; A Brief History of Time. In this interview he withers
his opinion that it will be possible to explain, in one mathematical
equation, all that is observable in creation. He said that the solution
would be in mathematics and that he was convinced that; "God
spoke that language." The prime components of this equation being
the unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics, there
by the unification of the classical laws of physics/the mechanical
laws, with the statistical/quantum mechanical laws.

It is some time since Men have begun the talk of one such recipe
for the Universe, one general knowledge and wisdom. After having
had his well known cogito ergo sum, spiritual experience on the
10th of November 1619, Ren Descartes became enthusiastic about
what he called the admirable scientific method. A sort of a
collective general method which would unify all of Man's
knowledge into one general wisdom, one general unification
theory. This took place at the same time that Galileo was in his
prime and the so called Second Age of Enlightenment was in its
birth throes. About the same time, Sir Francis Bacon began to see
the knowledge of Man as if it was built up like a pyramid with a
specific top stone. The topstone alone being as a pyramid and the
pyramid not a pyramid without this topstone. It may be said that the
physical sciences, with theoretical physics at the forefront, have
now been evolving in its search for this topstone during the 383
years since the mystical experience of Descartes.

Sir Isaac Newton is for many the first prime witness in the search
for the Recipe of the Universe. I Newton described as being
enraptured by the beauty and simplicity of his laws of gravity, and
hoped that he would stumble on an all encompassing theory, even
though he kept this secret, and that this would only be known after
his death. It was thus by this that Newton laid the cornerstone to all
the endeavor of modern physics: To show and prove the logical
necessity of the Universe as we experience it.

It is thus not the declarations of progress that are the struggle of
physics, but the dream of Newton, which was and which is, the
goal of the foremost physicists. The guidepost to this goal, say the
physicists, is to be found in the beauty of the equations. Beauty
according to Shakespeare is something; "In the eye of the observer."
Beauty according to the physicist is the "logical invariance."

Einstein's Search.
Albert Einstein is here an example of a physicist who
revolutionizes physics, only by following his sense of aesthetics.
When Einstein began, he found two shining theories: Maxwell's
Theory of Electromagnetism and the Gravitational Theory of
Newton. Nothing indicated that these theories might be erroneous--
only a small aesthetic discrepancy: -- They did not fit together.
Maxwell's equations did not permit anything traveling between
places faster than the speed of light, on the other hand, the
gravitation of Newton distributed itself over cosmic distances with
an infinite speed. Einstein's cure for this malady was a new theory
of gravity, relativity -- which is, to this day, no doubt the most
beautiful of all science theories. Smitten by this beauty, also
Einstein, like Newton, fell for the desire after the last theory of the
complete unification of the Laws of Nature. He dedicated the rest
of his life to this endeavor; To melt together into one theoretical
structure, gravity and electromagnetism, in the form of something
which we might call the Unified Field Equation. He made a
suggestion for this equation and called it the; Universal Constant.
The suggestion turned out to be unfounded and Einstein said to
have regretted much this attempt. When the efforts of Einstein
proved useless, the hope for the realization of this dream faded with
new discoveries. In stead of unifying the known force, the
progression of physics forced the physicists into the micro universe
of the atom and added to it two new forces: The so called Weak-
Interaction and the Strong Nuclear Force. Not only the forces, but
the particles them selves, refused to bow to some simple rules and
the physicists began to drown in a flood of new basic particles: If
the world of the physicist had began with only two matter particles,
that is the proton and the electron, in the twenties, now Man, in the
fifties, got lost in an ever more incomprehensible collection of
particles.

Grand Unified Theories
It was first towards the end of the seventies that a row of
magnificent discoveries, recreated the old deem: The American
physicist Murry Gell-Mann, made predictions of the inner
construction of the nucleons; the quarks. With the help of these
fraction-fractions of atoms, mathematically defined in the so called
Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD), it became possible to classify
all the particles into three families. Success in reaching another
goal was registered, but any future Recipe of the Universe will
depend on this: This was the unification of the Weak and
Electromagnetic Energy exchanges into what now is known as the
Elector-Weak-Force, -- a unification which at the same time will be
a kind of ancestor to any future; Grand Unified Theory of all the
forces, and is today, along with Quantum Chromo Dynamics, the
backbone in the so called Standard Model, as the physicist now
call the present theoretical constructions of the physical Universe.
No other theories have enjoyed such general acclaim. Every time
which new discoveries come from the accelerators, then they fit
perfectly into the puzzle of the complexed picture of the Material
Universe in the Standard Model. The latest trend in theorization,
since the beginning of the eighties, is the addition of two new
routs; The String Theories and The Super Symmetry Theories. The
fourth then is a combination of these two, or what is now called;
Superstring Theories, which in turn adopts the grand title of;
Theory of Everything.

Super Symmetry Theories
At about the same time that the GUT-Theories were being
developed, the so called Super-Symmetry Theories, or Susy's,
began to be created. These are theories which have evolved out of
what is known as the Kaluza-Kline discoveries, which first
appeared in 1919, and which are very special solutions to the
equations of general relativity from 1916. These solutions had then
evolved into the use of mathematical models known as group
theory.

The String Theories/Theories of Everything
The latest situation in physics can now be traced back to the year
1968, but then the particle physicist, Gabriel Veneziano, created a
very special and strange mathematical model for the heavier matter
particles. The model, which was reminiscent of strings, worked
well and lead to an improved later version which appeared in 1970
from the physicist Yoichiro Nambu. In Nambu's model, the basic
particles were no longer dimensionless point particles, quarks or
smeared blobs, but one dimensional strings which vibrate and
rotate. The theory now acquired the name the string theory. This
model began first to gain notice when the physicists Michael
Green, John Schwartz and Eduard Witten, continued to develop it,
and with the incorporation of Super-Symmetry, the model was now
named Superstring Theory. This then evolved into the so called
Theory of Everything was born in 1984. Although such a theory
does not include the observer, Man, it has been seen as theoretical
miracle, and is by many expected to be the route to produce physics
final answers to everything in the Universe. In the past years, this
theory has been one of theoretical physics prime endeavor.

Many different bodies of physicists worked on this theory, and in
Princeton University, a group of four physicists, given the nick-
name, The Princeton String Quartet. This group, under the
guidance of David Gross, connected the string theories to other
applications of mathematical theoretical physics. These are
symmetrical equation transformations who have become quite a
curiosity. When the string theories are connected to the super
symmetry equations, two Universes appear, not one. Here the basic
symmetry equation, E8 x E8, divides in two, in the Big Bang and
creates two identical Universes, E8 and E8-shadow. We live in our
Universe with its planets, stars and galaxies, but according to these
ideas, then another Universe exists parallel to ours, invisible to us
but basically the same! Each Universe has it's own electromagnetic
force, weak and strong interactions, protons, electrons and
neutrinos. These particles can then form atom's out of them selves,
later these atoms form molecules. Finally the molecules form rocks,
planets, stars and living systems such as theoretical physicists and
persons with interest in physics, like the one who is reading this.
Still the electromagnetic force and the nuclear force of either one of
these Universes will not have any influence in the other. It is as if
E8-shadow was indicating an invisible Universe, another World
which has a parallel existence to, and which transcends, ours. The
electrons of the shadow Universe can not influence the electrons in
ours. Protons and shadow-protons do not see each other; shadow
rocks pass through the walls in our living room. Since the gluons
and the electro-weak forces are isolated inside each E8 group, then
they can not create any influence between our world and that of the
Shadow-Universe. Still both Universes have their existence within
one space/time, and since gravity is a commodity of the whole E8 x
E8 symmetry equation, then it remains unchanged through the all
breaks in the symmetry and the compactifications of dimensions.
Gravity connects both Universes; They have their existence within
one space/time, which is collectively curved by the mass and energy
of both Universes. At this moment we could be sitting in the same
chair as someone in the other world. Or, we could be sitting on the
bottom of the sea in the shadow-world, or in the middle of shadow-
sun. Physics has finally succeeded in outdoing the science fiction
novels.

Antimatter
When Paul Dirac, in 1927, presented his equations describing the
electron and at the same time discovered the equation for the
positron, the antimatter, there appeared numerous theories about
another Universe made of antimatter. These speculations increased
as antimatter was discovered in cosmic rays in 1931. Ever since
this, the astrophysicists have been looking for antimatter planets
and antimatter galaxies. Fortunately not a tither has been found of
the much dangerous to our world antimatter bodies. Our world
would be destroyed in a burst of light, should it come into contact
with antimatter. The case of antimatter has primarily had to do with
the possibility of turning matter particles into their mirror images.
Now that physics is suggesting another mathematical mirror copy
of our world--which also could be extremely dangerous to us
through the danger of disturbance to the ecliptic path of the earth
around the sun--then we begin to contemplate whether the
mathematics of E8 x E8-shadow is not, for some unknown reasons,
just suggesting the old antimatter Universe, in a new form. Could
be only the so called quantum potential. Sometimes it becomes
difficult to see what the mathematics is telling us, such as the many
different interpretations of the reality of quantum mechanics. What
we find here interesting in these ideas, is that they remind us of
many thing which can bee found in ancient theology, mythology
and traditional stories that we not forget the metaphysical world of
Plato. It further reminds us of many things which have to do with
different investigations and recent findings into the function of the
human brain. What of it, there are many who believe that any
Recipe for the Universe, or any Theory of Everything, which does
not include the observer, Man, must be judged as quite strange and
doubtful recipes.

The Search in Eastern Ideas
Thus in the beginning of the eighties, many physicists began to see
the paradoxes, the coincidences and the statistical possibilities, as
well as the requirement for the observer in quantum mechanics, as
having been projected in the writings of Hinduism, Buddhism and
Taoism. Quantum mechanics, they suggested, is just a rediscovery
of Shiva or Mahadeva, the triple horned Hindu god of destruction
and cosmic solution. Shiva, which is mentioned as early as the third
or fourth century before Christ, adopts several forms. One of them
is Nataraja, the four armed lord of the cosmic dance and he shown
as dancing on a vanquished and flattened devil. The dance of this
god is symbolic for the repeated universal creation and destruction.
Matter has no form; it is only dynamic, rhythmic gyration of energy
coming and going.

In continuation of this came the criticism of David Bohm, after he
had consulted Kritnamurti and he had become conscious of the
limits in the nature of the scientific method; that is that the scientist
does not turn his attention inwards. Bohm's remark; "The human
minds ability to grasp higher realities is denied or ignored by
conventional science. Standard science is a dead end because it
analyzes experience into discrete pieces. The human mind--and
particularity the mind of the physicist--has an overwhelming need
to impose categories on experience. As a result the seamless web of
physical reality is divided into separate events that seem to occur
only side by side in different parts of time and space." -- By
understanding Eastern mysticism, Bohm suggests that physicists
can free their minds, at least briefly, from the self-created prison in
order to attain an instant of scientific creation. At Cambridge,
Brian Josephson, has for some time actively practiced Eastern
meditation techniques. He won the Nobel Prize in 1973, but has
now as a meditation target, the relationship between human
intelligence and the world it observes. He believes that with
increased understanding of Eastern mysticism he will gain insights
into objective reality.

Many physicists showed reactions of disgust at this evolution and
claimed little sense in the writings of Capra and Zukavs. Professor
Bohm, got of course, some sneers of critic from other physicists,
for his stand. "I think it is absolute rubbish. It's pure rubbish."
exclaimed professor Hawking in a discussion about the relationship
between the Big Bang and God and the Anthropic Principle. When
he was asked what he thought of the interest of some physicists for
finding the connection between the energy-matter exchanges of
quantum mechanics and creation-dissolution cycles of Eastern
mysticism, his reply was; "The universe of Eastern mysticism is an
illusion. A physicist who attempts to link it with his own work has
abandoned physics." Hawking reminded us that the quantum
pioneer, Niels Bohr, had at one time asserted that it was useless to
try to use quantum mechanics as a springboard for religious,
mystical, or parapsychological speculations.

The Worlds Biggest Accelerator that Never Was
Recently a most interesting book has been published by the Nobel
laureate and one of the high priests of theoretical physics, professor
Steven Weinber'g. The book was also a plea to the government of
the United States for the financing of the building of the last
accelerator of Man, the 11 billion dollar SSC accelerator in Texas
whose plans have now been scraped. This accelerator was intended
primarily for the confirmation of the existence of invisible E8-
shadow world which is supposed to exist along ours. The doubters
ask: What is gained if the search should ever be successful? --
Everything! -- Says Weinberg in his book and promises; "The
greatest advance in human knowledge since the birth of science."
He sees before him, within reach, the end of the search of the
centuries, the search for the ultimate explanation for the Universe.
The answer to Einstein's question; "Did God have a choice when he
created the Universe?"

In Weinberg's new book is also to be sensed his doubts when he
comes to face the metaphysical fields where all and nothing lie
closer and closer to each other. Again and again he has to face the
metaphysical questions that appear in his investigation. Already in
his student years Weinberg became disappointed at the
"incomprehensible inability of philosophy" to answer his questions,
but on the other hand wondered about the "incomprehensible
ability of mathematics" in this field. Disappointed Weinberg
abandoned the philosophy and the theology. The shortcomings of
religion and philosophy he intend to counter with his faith in a
physics Grand Unified Theory of the Universe. This dream points
him in the direction of the acknowledgment of the reductionism,
regardless of its cynical view of the Universe, which says that it is
connected through ever more fundamental truths. Now that the
electromagnetism and the weak-interactions have been unified into
the electro-weak force, why should the strong nuclear force refuse
unification? Why should not Einstein's dream at last become reality
with gravity being fused with the triplicate force?

In the standard model of the theoretical physicists, the nature of the
phenomena is controlled by just one initial kind of force and
instead of a pore Universe, built just in four dimensions --three
spatial and one temporal--they have now created Universes in 6, 10,
26 or even 32 dimensions, but up until now, no one has been able
to point out where the extra dimensions are to be found. The
present model of our Universe, at the moment of creation, in 10
dimensions and at the present work is being carried out in order to
create mathematics to roll up the six extra dimensions. This tends
to remind us of the creation of the renormalization mathematics
which was used to sweep the infinite energy states of the electron
under the rug, in stead of trying to clarify why the immaculate art of
mathematics permitted it self the suggestions of the extra
dimensions. The extra Universes have already been decorated with
whole hoards of resident particles; super symmetry particles as they
are called, or the nickname of Susys. These are the particles which
the physicists had hoped they could find with the new SSC
accelerator. Finally, the physicists exclaim, has a candidate for a
final theory appeared on the horizon; The Universal Recipe of the
Superstrings, the Theory of Everything." Then came the shock. The
SSC was scraped. During the hearings for the financing of the
SSC, the president of the committee, brought up the question
whether the scientists expected to find God in these final
experiments. At this, the prime opponent of the bill, exclaimed; "If
that is the case, then I shall immediately recommend the bill!"

Doubts
There are three facts connected to the search for the final answer,
but here it is certain that the building of ever bigger accelerators is
not a insurance policy for the discovery of the Recipe of the
Universe.

The doubts manifest in the following:

Perhaps there is not any Recipe for the Universe. The question;
Why?, could end in an never ending question. The ultimate truth of
the Universe could be founded in pure coincidences. Man's ability
to understand could be to limited in order to understand the Recipe
for the Universe. Certainly, says Weinberg, a dog will never be
capable of understanding quantum mechanics. It is possible that
the physicists will in the end have to satisfy themselves with the
Anthropic Principle, which is a sort of easy escape for God through
the back door: The Universe is as it is,--this rule says,--because it is
the only Universe where Men exist and can ask the question; Why
is the Universe as it is?

It is, however, more believable, that the dream of the Final
Unification Recipe will be shipwrecked in a less mystical manner.
This through on fault in the Superstrings theories of the physicists:
The particles which occupy their additional Universe, are no where
to be found. They must first be produced and for that end,
tremendous energy may be needed, energies really close to the
initial energy of creation. For the creation of this, a lot of money is
needed. Now after the SSC has been scraped, new hopes are arising
for the latest developments indicating that the much cheaper
method of the RK/TBA, or the Relativistic Klystron Two Beam
Accelerator may reach the same, or higher energies as the scuttled
SSC was intended. In the meantime the number of Superstring
Theories of Everything continues to mount, with no on knowing
which theory is the right one, and with no apparent methods of
deciding this. The RK/TBA, may achieve greater energies than the
presently most powerful accelerator on earth, Tevatron at the
University of Chicago. Tevatron creates a thousand million times
less energy than what the physicist say is needed for the unification
of all the forces of nature. This means that even if the SSC had
been built it would only have been clawing in the direction of
Grand Unification. However, the coming of the Relativistic
Klystron Two Beam Accelerator may present the last thinkable
experiment of this sort carried out by scientists. The faith that the
physicist have that the goal is within reach, is only based on the
beauty of their Superstring Theories. Should the building of the
RK/TBA succeed in producing the energies the SSC was intended
to, then it will be decided whether the physicists will find;
everything or nothing.

The Wave-function (program of the wave) of the Universe
In all this, the previously mentioned demand for the inclusion of
the observer, in the findings of Man's investigation of the physical
reality, has disappeared completely from the arena of the material
world's investigating sciences. With this also, any discussions of
higher realities in existence. Stephen Hawking has none the less
expressed his believes of this final search of Man for the truth; "I
would like to know exactly what happened between 10-33 second
and 10-43. It is there that the ultimate answer to all questions about
the universe--life itself included- -lies." What is here the
foundation of this deceleration is the hope of the physicists to find
the "program" for the wave-function of the Universe. That would
then represent the "program" for all wave-functions, as well as the
wave-function of the human brain. This is perhaps nothing new
either, T. H. Huxley said this about a hundred years ago, this
without knowing in what manner the question would have to be
answered; "The question of all questions for humanity, the problem
behind all others, and which is more interesting than any others, is
to establish Man's position in nature and his connection to the
universe."

While Einstein partook in this search, he was quoted; "I want to
know how God created this world. I am not interested in the
phenomena of the spectra of this or that element; I want to know
his thought; The rest are details." -- Still quantum mechanic pops
into our contemplation since all wave-functions are of quantum
mechanical nature, but here it is Fred Alan Wolf who comments;
"Quantum mechanics appears to describe a universal order that
includes us in a very special way. In fact, our minds may enter into
nature in a way we had not imagined possible... Perhaps the
appearance of the physical world is magical because the orderly
processes of science fail to take the observer into account. The
order of the universe may be the order of our own minds."

As regards the search of the sciences for the reality program of the
wave-function in its investigation of Man, then we find the first of
two "state of the investigation" report in a special issue of the
magazine Scientific American in September '93. That is the greatest
of all enigmas, the puzzle of the reality program for the wave-
function of the consciousness of Man. Here we read the comment
of professor Gerald D. Fischbach; "Philosophical search has to be
implemented with experiments which are now amongst the most
important, challenging and exciting in all of the sciences and
history of science. Our survival, and probably of all life on this
planet, depends on a more complete understanding of the human
brain."

This reminds us that we can not discuss these issues without having
the famous psycho-biologist, Richard M. Restak, say a few words;
"Since the brain is unlike any other structure in the known
universe, it seems reasonable to expect that our understanding of its
functioning--if it can ever be achieved--will require approaches that
are drastically different from the way we understand other physical
systems. This is not a call for nihilism, but humility. Our most
striking recent conceptual advances in psycho-biology--
microcircuitry and holography--are the results of having the
courage to relinquish traditional and no longer rewarding
viewpoints in favor of bold, imaginative, and innovative conceptual
schemes.... Is there, therefore, any more reasonable response to
such consideration than humility? After all are not our brains a part
of the same physical universe whose essential nature remains, after
thousands of years of speculation, essentially mysterious?" Restak
declares the search for the final understanding of the functions of
the human brain; "The final frontier of science."

Shortly before his death, the Nobel laureate zoologist, Peter
Medawar, wrote a remarkable little book which he called: The
Limits of Science. In this book Medawar drew up his reasons for
believing that scientific discovery regarding basic truths in nature,
could not be predetermined. Man could not simply decide that he
would now go out and discover something fundamentally new.
Such discoveries, throughout history, had always come about in
other ways. More or less through coincidence. Here one comes to
think of the words of the prophets of the Old Testament, which say
that; God gives insights only to those who are prepared to receive
them on His terms. Medawar complained bitterly in his book, that
he could not believe, that he had no faith, and referred to the great
confession of faith made by Sir Francis Beacon. He further made
references to the science philosopher, Karl Popper; "The more we
learn of the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious,
specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not
know, our knowledge of our ignorance. For this, indeed, is the
main source of our ignorance--the fact that our knowledge can be
only finite while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite." -- It
would indeed, be a charmer if the prediction of John Wheeler--
regarding the grand search of Man for the Recipe of the Universe--
should turn out to become a reality: "Behind it all is surely an idea
so simple, so beautiful, so compelling that when--in a decade, a
century or a millennium--we grasp it, we will all say to each other,
how could it be otherwise? How could we have been so stupid for
so long?"

This would certainly be the result if Man ended up by finding
himself and the reasons for his unnatural behavior. If the search
does not end that way, then we fear that Man's search for the
Recipe of the Universe, could turn into the Never Ending Search.
The Never Ending Story, or that the End of Man will arrive before
any final answer is gained. Perhaps the collective conclusion of
these our contemplations are best expressed with the words of
Albert Einstein when he said; "Religion without science is blind
and science without religion is lame!" or perhaps he got closer to
this when he said; "The most beautiful experience we can have is
the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the
cradle of true art and true science."

In the end, all this tells us only one thing. The search of science is
still Man's search for himself. Such a search must demand that no
stone be left unexamined, and nothing be judged as worthless
before it is scrutinized. Least of all that which seems strange an
difficult, and amongst this, a fearless search inwards into the
chambers of the soul, this without any denials of the truth about us
selves. It is for the existence of the deception that individuals can
not achieve this all alone. The reminder on the temple in Delphi;
"Man know thy self!" is still in full validity. Sigmund Freud was
not completely of the rocker when he said; "The voice of the
intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a
hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one
of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future
of mankind."

This is certainly true, but here is at the same time one of the
questions of Man. Why is it like this? Could it be that this was
indicating the voice of silence, and we simply did not know how to
listen to it? The we do not know how to be quite? Personally it is
my opinion that we can not talk of any Recipe for the Universe
without it fitting, at least in the outline, to the timeless wisdom of
the Philosophia Perennis. Otherwise we shall be seeing the
discipline of physics continue to present newer and newer
explanations, and Man's explanations of the Universe continue to
travel with physics where physics goes. Man needs a field where
his spirit is free to scrutinize what ever, and where all stones are
scrutinized and none forbidden in the search for the last stone. The
search that does not cost anything and does not require any super
expensive super accelerator. The search for the lapis
philosophorium, the stone of wisdom, which is the search for our
selves; the observer and the partaker in the scientific experiment of
life.

Further to all this then there is a story here in Iceland of an old
woman who was about to pass into the afterlife and called a priest
to her deathbed. She had, amongst other things, asked him the
question; "Have they [the scientists] found the answer to the
enigma of life?" The priest responded that they had not. The old
one exclaimed; "Perhaps they have not found out how the question
should be?"

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In the following pages are to be found clarification of the authors
reasons and arguments for his entering into the discussions
regarding the questions of a "Recipe for the Universe," or
discussions regarding all such concepts as "Unified Field
Equations," or "Grand Unified Theories," or "Superstring Theories,"
or "Theories of Everything." In other words, in accord with the
essay here prior, he intends to enter into discussion of models for a
final paradigm of science. He intends to enter with a model in
physics of the material universe, containing the most interesting of
all subjects studied; The Observer, Man. An endeavor in which the
science of theoretical physics have been utterly incompetent. The
Observer, Man being the most controversial and confusing subject
of study in all the sciences, which have not gotten anywhere as fahr
as being able to explain the phenomena of man. Neither in curing
the functional disorders in the brain of Man. -- In this the author
maintains that he has a most justifiable method for this, a none
mathematical method, a method of symbolic logic, a method which
permits the admission of the observer into the models for a; Theory
of Everything. In this the author suggests that all such titles of;
Theories of Everything, that do not contain the Observer, Man, - do
not include an ultimate explanation for you and me, - as being
totally absurd.
 
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