Subject: | Have a DQ moment! |
Date: | Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:33:40 -0500 |
From: | Doug Renselle - In Quantonics |
Organization: | The Quantonics Society & Quantonics, Inc. |
To: | Ant McWatt <flameproof@liverpool.ac.uk> |
Anthony,
I am so excited! I just have to share with you. Here is powerful
evidence that MoQthink works for its practitioners...
About two weeks ago, almost out of the clear blue, I sat down
and wrote
those three equations I just shared with you: m, l, t = f(flux). I
arrived at these via MoQ and thinking about unlatched waves as
a
metaphor of DQ. I did it without deep knowledge of physics, advanced
mathematics, etc.
Now imagine my delight when I am reading, for the first time
in my life
on 12Oct1998, page 49 of Irving Stein's, The
Concept of Object as the
Foundation of Physics, and I see this at the end of the
chapter on the
Relativistic Object (Classical Object was previous chapter):
"In the next chapter, on the Random Walk Object, I will
identify mass
with the step length or step time; thus, even BEFORE we get to
quantum
mechanics, the three basic physical realities of physics: mass,
space
(length), and time are found to be based on a SINGLE physical
reality,
that of the pre-space-time 'step.' (Anthony, read step as 'flux'
- WOW!)
Furthermore, such a 'step' the basic physical reality, which does
NOT
depend for its value on any frame of reference, appears to imply
the
necessity of a universal interaction..."
Anthony, I could be cheating, but I swear I am NOT. I really
did arrive
at this difficult stage on my own, primarily using MoQ to do it.
For
me, this speaks profoundly of the power of the MoQ. I KNOW that
now.
Before, I believed it. Now,
I KNOW IT!!!
AWESOME!!!
In retrospect, nearly 10 years later, Doug had grasped issues of
Planck's quantum as 'step.' But Doug had almost total lack of
understanding re: Planck's quantum at that time. Doug also saw
how Stein's 'step' may be hermeneuted as quanta of flux.Doug saw that quantum as flux!
These comments are relevant our recent work on a review of
Banesh Hoffmann's The Strange Story of the Quantum,
Act II.Doug - 14Sep2007.
I am sharing with you, Anthony, right now, as it actually happened...one
of those rare, FINE, DQ MOMENTS. The feeling is outside of words.
One big reason I am sharing this with you is your question
in your
previous email about complementarity and conscious/subconscious
which I
already expounded on.
In November of 1996, I wrote to Pirsig. One question I asked
and he
answered find duplicated here:
Doug to Pirsig: "Were you 'purposeless on purpose'
[a Eugen Herrigel
phrase - from 'Zen in the Art of Archery.'] when you wrote 'ZMM'
and
'Lila?' Did you or 'It' [DQ] write them?"
Pirsig to Doug: "I would say that 'it' wrote 'ZMM' and
'Lila' and at
times 'it' created an artificial intellectual static entity called
'me'
as a central focusing point for the entire process. But at the
best and
most creative moments this 'me' was not there self-consciously
supervising everything. Words just appeared and were set down
on
paper. When they looked bad they were crossed out and after a
while
other words came that looked better."
I had to share this, with you Anthony.
Mtty,
Doug.
(Note: I am going to place this on the Quantonics site for
all who
visit to see.)
Doug Renselle
In Quantonics
http://www.quantonics.com/
"The cause of our current social
crises,..., is a genetic defect within
the nature of reason itself."
By Robert M. Pirsig, in 'Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,'
p. 102 (paperback), Bantam, 28th edition, May 1982.