Essay Abstract

"Wonder en is gheen wonder!" was Bruges-born polymath Simon Stevin's maxim (in late-medieval Dutch). He claimed that all happenings, however wondrous, complex or inconceivable at first view, eventually can be explained merely in terms of scientific interaction laws, although these laws are not all known or even accessible to us. In line with Stevin's view it is argued that any apparent aim that is perceived in mindless laws or in the action that results from them is indeed just that, an aim-oriented perception.

Author Bio

Arno Keppens (1984) graduated as Master in theoretical and computational physics from Ghent University (Belgium) in 2006. By October 2010, he finished his PhD at the Light & Lighting Laboratory (KU Leuven, Belgium). Part of Arno's doctoral research has been performed while working as a Guest Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA). US Government funding allowed him to continue this work at the NIST as a post-doctoral Guest Researcher. In 2012, Arno joined the Synergies research group at the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB, Brussels).

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Hi Arno, I enjoyed reading your essay. I'm not sure at the end whether you agree with the Absurdism stance. Is it your conclusion or have you left it as food for thought?

    Dear Georgina, thanks for your kind words. The absurdism stance is not really a conclusion, but rather a view that I indeed personally favor and therefore share as a (also rational/secular) alternative for the negative connotation that comes with nihilism. Nihilists typically claim that life is not worth living because it is useless to the universe. Absurdists are more positive by claiming that live is worth living, by acknowledgement of our instinctive strive for happiness, despite our knowledge and acceptance that it is useless to the universe.

    Hello ,gooiedag ,bonjour,Mr Kepens,

    I am happy to see a belgian.Small country ,big heart.Thanks for sharing your essay and good luck in this contest

    Regards from bergen,sad reality Mons Hainaut due to ps ,I am tired by their lacks of rational universalism.A catastrophic reality for wallonia ,Mons is an entrepreuneurial cimetery where psychology becomes odd.

    Dear Keppens,

    Nice short essay on wonder is not a wonder... !

    Your ideas and thinking are good...

    Your words... "Yet chemicals - through physics interactions - making species crave for survival and reproduction, the latter (un)fortunately (depending on your view) inducing accidental copying errors, resulting in slight interspecies variations that yield minimal yet sufficient differences in further survival and reproduction capabilities, moving towards co-evolution, et-cetera, have no interactional intention whatsoever."

    My essay shows these reproduction capabilities of the universe.

    For your information Dynamic Universe model is totally based on experimental results. Here in Dynamic Universe Model Space is Space and time is time in cosmology level or in any level. In the classical general relativity, space and time are convertible in to each other.

    Many papers and books on Dynamic Universe Model were published by the author on unsolved problems of present day Physics, for example 'Absolute Rest frame of reference is not necessary' (1994) , 'Multiple bending of light ray can create many images for one Galaxy: in our dynamic universe', About "SITA" simulations, 'Missing mass in Galaxy is NOT required', "New mathematics tensors without Differential and Integral equations", "Information, Reality and Relics of Cosmic Microwave Background", "Dynamic Universe Model explains the Discrepancies of Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry Observations.", in 2015 'Explaining Formation of Astronomical Jets Using Dynamic Universe Model, 'Explaining Pioneer anomaly', 'Explaining Near luminal velocities in Astronomical jets', 'Observation of super luminal neutrinos', 'Process of quenching in Galaxies due to formation of hole at the center of Galaxy, as its central densemass dries up', "Dynamic Universe Model Predicts the Trajectory of New Horizons Satellite Going to Pluto" etc., are some more papers from the Dynamic Universe model. Four Books also were published. Book1 shows Dynamic Universe Model is singularity free and body to collision free, Book 2, and Book 3 are explanation of equations of Dynamic Universe model. Book 4 deals about prediction and finding of Blue shifted Galaxies in the universe.

    With axioms like... No Isotropy; No Homogeneity; No Space-time continuum; Non-uniform density of matter(Universe is lumpy); No singularities; No collisions between bodies; No Blackholes; No warm holes; No Bigbang; No repulsion between distant Galaxies; Non-empty Universe; No imaginary or negative time axis; No imaginary X, Y, Z axes; No differential and Integral Equations mathematically; No General Relativity and Model does not reduce to General Relativity on any condition; No Creation of matter like Bigbang or steady-state models; No many mini Bigbangs; No Missing Mass; No Dark matter; No Dark energy; No Bigbang generated CMB detected; No Multi-verses etc.

    Many predictions of Dynamic Universe Model came true, like Blue shifted Galaxies and no dark matter. Dynamic Universe Model gave many results otherwise difficult to explain

    Have a look at my essay on Dynamic Universe Model and its blog also where all my books and papers are available for free downloading...

    http://vaksdynamicuniversemodel.blogspot.in/

    Best wishes to your essay.

    For your blessings please................

    =snp. gupta

    Dear Dr. Arno Keppens,

    Please excuse me for I have no intention of disparaging in any way any part of your essay.

    I merely wish to point out that "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Physicist & Nobel Laureate.

    Only nature could produce a reality so simple, a single cell amoeba could deal with it.

    The real Universe must consist only of one unified visible infinite physical surface occurring in one infinite dimension, that am always illuminated by infinite non-surface light.

    A more detailed explanation of natural reality can be found in my essay, SCORE ONE FOR SIMPLICITY. I do hope that you will read my essay and perhaps comment on its merit.

    Joe Fisher, Realist

    5 days later

    Dear Arno Keppens

    I invite you and every physicist to read my work "TIME ORIGIN,DEFINITION AND EMPIRICAL MEANING FOR PHYSICISTS, Héctor Daniel Gianni ,I'm not a physicist.

    How people interested in "Time" could feel about related things to the subject.

    1) Intellectuals interested in Time issues usually have a nice and creative wander for the unknown.

    2) They usually enjoy this wander of their searches around it.

    3) For millenniums this wander has been shared by a lot of creative people around the world.

    4) What if suddenly, something considered quasi impossible to be found or discovered such as "Time" definition and experimental meaning confronts them?

    5) Their reaction would be like, something unbelievable,... a kind of disappointment, probably interpreted as a loss of wander.....

    6) ....worst than that, if we say that what was found or discovered wasn't a viable theory, but a proved fact.

    7) Then it would become offensive to be part of the millenary problem solution, instead of being a reason for happiness and satisfaction.

    8) The reader approach to the news would be paradoxically adverse.

    9) Instead, I think it should be a nice welcome to discovery, to be received with opened arms and considered to be read with full attention.

    11)Time "existence" is exclusive as a "measuring system", its physical existence can't be proved by science, as the "time system" is. Experimentally "time" is "movement", we can prove that, showing that with clocks we measure "constant and uniform" movement and not "the so called Time".

    12)The original "time manuscript" has 23 pages, my manuscript in this contest has only 9 pages.

    I share this brief with people interested in "time" and with physicists who have been in sore need of this issue for the last 50 or 60 years.

    Héctor

    Arno,

    As someone with a famously refined sense of the ridiculous I applauded your essay loudly enough to carry from Kent. Kedged off Oostende once waiting for a zephyr to take us to the finish for line honours I convinced my crew we were really hanging on to Earth doing thousands of km/sec through the local group. We won the race but it did prove quite pointless! (unlike the mutual best time in the NSYC bar).

    Yes, my essay entirely agrees with yours, far more concise, direct and succinct than mine. But then I do also find a slightly complex proof, after predicting and identifying why it will remain invisible to almost all! That's no wonder either!

    Great job. I had to smile, and that alone is worth some points!

    Best wishes

    Peter

      Dear Peter, thanks for your encouraging words and appreciation. Your essay indeed is much broader than mine, covering many areas of research. I am not familiar with all material, but your first pair of conclusions is in line with my own understandings. Good luck with the sharing of your views, as much within the FQXi community as with your crew.

      Dear Mr Keppen,

      Reading through your excellent essay I have to admit that my personal deeply rooted aim-oriented perception has lead me to somewhat regret the apparent lack of purpose or meaning in the universe. I can however only succumb to your balanced list of rational arguments, even in the light of innumerable yet random events such as frogs swimming in public swimming pools, or the fact that we are celebrating Einstein's birthday on π day... I guess you cannot have your π and eat it too. Keep up the good work!

      Best Regards,

      Zabek

      23 days later

      Dear Arno Keppens,

      I have read your essay and this phrase is interesting for me.

      "Going from the four basic forces of physics, over biological evolution by natural selection, to present-day personal or socio-economic behavior, phenomena are typically considered to gain intentionality. Or certainly the existence of humanity must have a higher purpose?..."

      With Best Regards,

      Ch.Bayarsaikhan

      Dear Sirs!

      Physics of Descartes, which existed prior to the physics of Newton returned as the New Cartesian Physic and promises to be a theory of everything. To tell you this good news I use «spam».

      New Cartesian Physic based on the identity of space and matter. It showed that the formula of mass-energy equivalence comes from the pressure of the Universe, the flow of force which on the corpuscle is equal to the product of Planck's constant to the speed of light.

      New Cartesian Physic has great potential for understanding the world. To show it, I ventured to give "materialistic explanations of the paranormal and supernatural" is the title of my essay.

      Visit my essay, you will find there the New Cartesian Physic and make a short entry: "I believe that space is a matter" I will answer you in return. Can put me 1.

      Sincerely,

      Dizhechko Boris

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