mathematics

what came first: maths or matter / observer or particle

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Just read some interesting news in an article written by one of my favorite science journalist, Karin Boys, in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter:

they have found the physical existence of the magically beautiful E8-pattern – displayed in the image here below – one of the most complex mathematical concepts in the world which took weeks for a hall of super-computers to calculate and resulted in 400 000 printed pages. Researchers have been hoping that E8 is connected to the search for the great Theory of Unification, which shall bring together Einstein’s general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics (which is not possible with todays maths). And now symmetries from this pattern was discovered by a group of German and English physicists when they froze cobalt nitrate to the absolute 0-point, which made the electrons arrange themselves in kind of rows or chains. Then they exposed this to magnetic fields, and in the magnetic fluctuations which evolved the strikingly beautiful E8 pattern was spotted.

by Claudio Rocchini (wikipedia)

I mean, if it came down to looks I’d so far wote for this pattern to be the door to open the true Unification theory, it is just really amazing, isn’t it?!

This is not the first time mathematicians has calculated something which physicists did not yet know of, or they even considered impossible. The last time such a discovery was made was in 1974 by Sir Roger Penrose, who I actually made an 1 hour long interview with in the Vienna Riesenrad back in 2004. He calculated something called quasicrystals, a pattern of two shapes which can repeat endlessly without repeating a pattern. This was considered completely impossible, but was later found, for example in a type of stone in Siberia, and has even shown to have quite some practical use to it.

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found: where science and buddhism meet by Gerald Penilla

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Just found this great, simple, to the point summary of the connection between Quantum Science and the basic ideas of classic Asian philosophy and religion like Buddhism, Taoism and Hinduism, made by Gerald Penilla

One can of course make many arguments against drawing the sort of conclusions which Gerald present in this film. The most common one argument that I have heard is that mathematics are only abstractions and that they just cannot say anything about reality as it really is. Which brings at least my mind to the question if one can say anything about reality as it is…

No matter what point of view you have, I think that you will find the connections which Gerald presents here at least interesting.

Where Science and Buddhism meet part 1 and 2

I think that the most striking about the conclusions presented above is that we are very likely co- creating not only ourselves, but also each other and our reality with our thoughts and attitudes, in a not only spiritual but also physical sense.

A very good reason to love ourselves, one another and our surroundings:  to love all of existence.

And with loving I do not mean some illusion-based infatuation which is denying the difficult, challenging or “bad” sides of reality, each other, existence;

no, I mean a deep, true feeling of compassion, which results in compassion, and love, streaming out of the body, mind and soul, influencing oneself and the surroundings to do good and feel well. And love.