Slashdot Mirror
Perimeter Institute Launches Modern Physics Resource
An anonymous reader writes "You can find six new online sources of info about hot topics in modern physics at the 'What We Research' outreach page of Perimeter Institute. The info includes text, graphics and online presentations dealing with Cosmology, Superstring Theory, Quantum Gravity, Quantum Foundations, Quantum Information and Particle Physics. The resource section at the bottom of each page recommends a wealth of interesting online lectures by some famous scientists. PI is an independent, nonprofit scientific research and outreach organization."
Live! LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Webcams
We substituted the coffee Slashdot normally drinks with "Sandoz Crystals", Lets see if they notice the difference
... research.
That field is the one that unifies "human mental abilities to comprehend such aspects of physical reality" with actual physical reality.
Our theories are abstract representations of what we believe of physical reality and they only work as well as how well our theories are inline with physical reality.
However, it seems that what should be most obvious in unification, is not so obvious due to the inherent subjectivity of the human ability to create and manipulate abstractions which are in turn used to think and perform action by.
What should be obvious is the constraints we place on our own minds by the abstractions we use and that by understanding the physics of our abstraction creation and use process, we'd be better able to remove the constraints of our own abstractions, so to better perceive and think about physical reality.
"Einstein searched until the moment he died for the equation of the 'Unified Field Theory'. He never realized the missing element was the same element that caused so much of his life to be what it was" and that is "Human Consciousness" as defined by Julian Jaynes in his book "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind."
The missing field of research is that of Abstraction Physics , which is the unifying field of all things between human comprehension and physical reality, even in just parts of the "All". So seemingly obvious, yet so second nature its simply to subjective for most to consciously comprehend the importance of realizing its not second nature to computers, but certainly programmable into computers that we humans can be a bit more objective about it, enough to see and recognize the unifier values to be had.