Dear Heinrich Luediger,
I took the liberty to read your "Context" essay before attempting to respond to your comments, to make sure that I understood fully what you are attempting to say. If you have read enough of my posting comments for this year's (2017) contest, you will surely be aware that I hold philosophy as an approach to life in high regard, and that some of my favorite essays this year were written by philosophers.
My first warning that your essay might be rather unique was when you quoted a line from Kant that eloquently restates what every mother or father of an enquiring child already knows, which is that we humans like to ask "why" in situations where no one has an answer. Here is the Kant line you quoted:
"... it is the peculiar fate of human reason to bring forth questions that are equally inescapable and unanswerable."
From that simple observation you somehow (I do not yet see how) inferred this:
"... we may read Kant's disturbing assertion as: human knowledge is without false floor, irreducible and hence not tolerating questions."
I would estimate that well over 95% of readers would instead interpret that line from Kant as a gentle and basically humble reminder of how deeply ingrained curiosity is in most of us, and that the hard questions that such curiosity engenders are a good thing, rather than something to be discouraged. That you instead interpreted his comment as an assertion that people should stop asking questions is very unexpected.
Thus I was genuinely curious to find out why you interpreted this line in this way, and so read your essay in detail to find out why.
As best I can understand your worldview from that careful reading, you believe sincerely that special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics are all unreal mathematical fantasies whose complex, incomprehensible mathematical structures are used by a small group of people, positivist scientists mostly, in positions of power and privilege. In contrast you believe that only the older Newtonian physics that is more accessible to your direct senses is valid. Finally, you believe that the same group that uses these false mathematical frameworks to maintain positions of privilege are also very worried that people such as yourself might join together to ask hard questions that would uncover the falseness of their mathematical fantasies, and so undermine their positions. You believe therefore that this same group works actively keep suppress people like you even from speaking about the falseness of their QM, SR, and GR frameworks.
Let me specific about which lines in your essay led me to the above inferences:
Pages 2-3: "Since both SR/GR and QM 5 are not associated with phenomena whatsoever, modern physics, by having taken us into the never-Here and never-
Now, has become speechless, i.e. cannot translate logic and mathematics back to meaning other than by fantastic speculation and daring artistic impression."
Page 3: "Hence it doesn't come as a surprise that mathematically driven physics moves tons of data just to remain void of experience. In other words, much of modern physics stands in false, namely affirmative-logical, relations to the rest of human knowledge."
Pages 3-4: "So, I'm absolutely convinced that classical physics has not been falsified in the sense of contradicting human experience."
Page 4: "Of course I'm not denying that there are instrumental observations that don't agree with classical physics, but that is not what theories primarily are about. Rather they are meant to 'make observable' novel domains of experience and in order not to 'sabotage' established domains of experience they are to be incommensurable, i.e. orthogonal, and thus additive."
Page 4: "Positive, that is, logical knowledge does not permit rhetorical questions for the reason of creating strings or networks of affirmations and precipitating as unscientific whatever is not tractable by its analytical methodology. And by successively entraining us into its network we are becoming ants in an ant colony, fish in a fish school and politically-correct repliants of ever-newer, the less intuitive the better, opinions."
The next-to-last quote above is to me the most fascinating. I was genuinely scratching my head as to how you were handling instrumental observations that do not agree with classical physics, of which there are shall we say, quite a few? I see that you do not deny the existence of such observations -- I was actually a bit surprised by that -- but that you instead seem to interpret them as ultimately irrelevant data that have very little impact on everyday Newtonian-framework reality and observation, and so do not really mean much... except to the positivists, who jumped on them collectively (additively) to create huge nonsensical mathematical fantasies that make bizarre and incomprehensible predictions that are unrelated to reality.
However, I think it is the last quote above that is the most evocative of how you feel about what you perceive as the situation, and your level of anger about it. You seem convinced in that quote that this group has dedicated itself to ensuring that even that tiny remaining group of true, reality-believing inquirers such as yourself, the ones who still believe in the readily observable reality of the Newtonian world of physics, will be scooped up relentlessly, utterly isolated, driven to silence, and made into nothing more than mindless, unquestioning ants.
Such a perspective helps make more comprehensible your unexpected view of the simple observation from Kant, the one about the incessant and unanswerable curiosity of most humans. I suspect (but am not sure) that you are reading Kant's line not as some gently intended general observation on the nature of curiosity in both children and adults, but as some sort of subtle warning from Kant to his followers that there exist people such as yourself who understand what he and his followers are really up to -- creating indecipherable scientific fantasies that they can then use to build up a power base -- and that this group needs to be shut down to keep them from asking unanswerable questions that would expose the unreal nature of their mathematical fantasies.
I'll end by pointing out that I think you have a serious inconsistency in your beliefs, one that leaves you with two choices.
You say you do not accept the reality of quantum theory, yet your daily actions powerfully contradict that assertion. Even as you read this text you are reaping enormous personal benefits of from these supposedly imaginary mathematical frameworks.
Why? Well, are you or are you not using a personal computer, laptop, or cell phone to read this posting, and to post your own ideas?
The problem is that semiconductor chips on which all of these devices depend cannot even exist within classical physics. They can only be understood and applied usefully by applying material and quantum theory. So, if you insist that only objects you can see with your own sense are real, look at what you are doing right now on your electronic devices. Ask anyone you can find with a solid-state electrical engineering background how such device work. Take the time and effort to let them teach you the basic design of devices that you can see are real and right in front of you, both at the laptop level and by using a Newtonian microscope to look at the complexity of the resulting silicon chips. Let your own senses convince you, with the help of someone you can trust--and surely you can find at least one electrical engineer whom you know well enough on a personal basis that you trust them to be honest about how those clearly real chips were designed and built?
There are other examples. Do you have lights that turn on at night? Einstein was the one who created quantum mechanics when he explained why such sensors cannot be explained by classical waves.
Do you recall the old cathode-ray tubes? Were you aware that the electrons that write images on the screens of such devices travel fast enough that you cannot design such devices without taking special relativity into account?
But if you insist that none of this is real, I must ask: Shouldn't you then stop buying and using all such devices? Their very existence compromises your fundamental premise that they are based upon mathematics that are not real, and are designed only to perpetuate power. How then can you continue using them?
The only other alternative I can suggest is that you examine more closely both why your feel there is a conspiracy.
For whatever it's worth. I assure you as someone whose friends will testify to my honest and who has worked in high tech and science areas for decades that until I read your essay today, I had never before encountered the idea that QM, SR, and GR might be fantasies that some group of people uses to maintain power and suppress questions. The people I have known just found these mathematical constructs to be incredibly useful for building things (QM hugely, but also SR) and for understanding observational data (GR for astronomy). They would have been horrified (and literally unable to do their jobs) if someone had taken those tools away from them.
Since you seem to be a thought leader for this idea that QM, SR, and GR are part of a large, centuries-old mathematical power conspiracy, I don't seriously expect you to be persuaded to abandon your belief in a conspiracy to promulgate false mathematics as physics. But I can attest to you that from my decades-long personal experiences at many levels of science and applied technology that I simply have not encountered anything that corresponds in to the kind of false math or false intent that you describe. So, I at least want to point out to you the option of changing your mind.
Sincerely,
Terry Bollinger
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