Dear Joe,
I went through you essay and would like to keep some points in favor and rest against.
As you mentioned " Although the real substance of the real Universe appears to us as seeming to consist of varying amounts of solid, liquid and gaseous properties, it must be re-emphasized here that all appearances are deceptive. The real Universe is not apparent and this is why it is not mathematical."
Matter is NOT made up of matter ! This is only abstraction and deceptiveness of "reality" at lower level of consciousness.
As mentioned in my references[4]
"The physicist, Professor
Hans Peter Dürr's 'Inanimate and Animate
Matter' in What is Life (2002) declares:
'Modern quantum physics reveals that
matter is not composed of matter, but reality
is merely potentiality' (p. 145). He also
writes in 'Whatever Matter Is--It's Not
Made Of Matter': '. . .the green we see [for
instance] is a quality appearing in the mind
in response to this frequency of light. It
exists only as a subjective experience in the
mind.' Professor Dürr has worked with
Werner Heisenberg for many years. Such a
personality declares in his German book
(2000), translated into English: 'Matter is
not made up of matter. Basically there is
only spirit' (p. 18). Vivekananda also said:
'You see this glass, and you know it is
simply an illusion. Some scientists tell you it
is light and vibration. All these [objects you
see], are but dreams'. Professor Lothar
Schäfer of Arkansas University affirms it
when he says: (in Lou Massa's Science and
the Written Word, 2011): 'The quantum
phenomena show that reality is a
transmaterial, transempirical, and
transpersonal wholeness' (p. 93).
But that doesn't give testimonial to the fact it rejects mathematics totally. Even mathematics can exist in abstractness ! If an observer takes physical world to be deceptive, then mathematics also is so and if physical world is real ,then mathematics also is so.It cant be that one is deceptive and another is real.
As Bernard Russell pointed out - The world is mathematical not because we know so much about it but so little.
You have also concentrated your essay on the motion. IF Zeno's paradox of motion is to be looked into, motion itself is illusion. Referring to the detailed essay in [17] in my essay --
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ABSTRACT
David Hilbert's approach to studying the nature of continuous mechanical motion with the help of Zeno's paradox is developing. Zeno's sequence allows the detection of the latent singularity within the classical description of mechanical motion. The inception of this singularity occurs because of the accumulation of motion intervals added. The absence of that addition in the description of motion and the absence of the singularity occur outside classical mechanics only and are associated with quantum mechanics. A conclusion has been drawn that continuous mechanical motion is possible only because of the wave properties of the material particles, and such a motion is the most pictorial manifestation of the effects of quantum mechanical in the macrouniverse. The possession of wave properties is an inevitable necessity for maintaining the mobility of particles and the material bodies consisting of those particles. That leads eventually to such paradoxical mechanisms (phenomenon) of physical nature as wave-particle dualism, without which, the existences of dynamic objects and the structures of our world appear impossible.".
And the big question "where did Universe come from" is asked at lower level of consciousness because at higher level of consciousness
one can't define the constituent words itself e.g "where"(space), did(time) the Universe come(motion) from (separation) ?
And ,hence this question itself is baseless.
The links ar2
(1)http://www.sriramakrishna.org/admin/bulletin/_bulletin_88047a9c37a644e3709aa3f512cf55baf130de0f.pdf
2)http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/85972061/nature-physical-motion-zenos-paradox
Thanks,
PankajAttachment #1: 2_vivekanada_universe.pdf
