tisdag 29 april 2025

Quantum Mechanics: Aristotle or Platon?

This is inspired by a very informative article by Matthew Ehret: Unravelling The Jesuit Enigma.

The Scientific Revolution is viewed as a triumph of Platonic mathematization over Aristotelian natural philosophy expressed in classical Newtonian mechanics based on the Calculus of Leibniz and Newton

But in modern physics based on Quantum Mechanics QM, the roles appear to have shifted. 

Classical mechanics as macroscopic physics with causality is based on clear physical principles and logical argumentation, and is understandable in theory and very useful in practice. Together with the computer, classical mechanics is a formidable tool and machine.

QM as microscopic physics without causality is based on evasive principles, lacks logic and is understood only by its high priests of Nobel Laureates in Physics, to be used by all others under the command "Shut up and calculate" as the foundation of modern information society for all to accept. In this respect it connects to the Jesuit Priest Ignatius Loyola's view on education as expressed by Bertrand Russell: 

  • Education in a scientific society may, I think, be best conceived after the analogy of the education provided by the Jesuits. The Jesuits provided one sort of education for the boys who were to become ordinary men of the world and another for those who were to become members of the Society of Jesus. In like manner, the scientific rulers will provide one kind of education for ordinary men and women and another for those who are to become holders of scientific power.
But why is macroscopic physics Platonic rational, while microscopic physics is Aristotelian irrational? 

The irrationality of QM is expressed by its statistical interpretation without causality, which neither Einstein nor Schrödinger ever accepted: "God does not play dice". It is unthinkable that the Hydrogen atom as most common stable element in the Universe is the result of a roulette game inside the atom. Yet this is what we are ordered to believe by QM. It is like having to accept the dogma that "snow is black" connecting again to Russell in Science and Society (1955):
  • First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity. It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray.
recalling Ignatius Loyola’s 13th Rule of his Spiritual Meditations
  • To be right in everything, we ought always to hold that the white which I see, is black, if the Hierarchical Church so decides it, believing that between Christ our Lord, the Bridegroom, and the Church, His Bride, there is the same Spirit which governs and directs us for the salvation of our souls.

But there cannot be a dichotomy between macro and micro, it must all be Platonic. That is the idea of RealQM.


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