Rome is burning and our leaders are stumbling over each other about $150 million in bonuses. These are the same politicians who have quadrupled the federal deficit since 1980. Reagan and the two Bushes produced three times more deficit than all prior President's (yes going back to George Washington).
$150m million is 1/10% of $150 billion. Politicians no longer even read briefs on $150 billion in spending. Does anyone believe they really care about AIG's bonuses?
Showing posts with label Atoms. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Quantum Education
A new worldview calls for a new structure for education. How can 2000 year old categories still be best for 2009 realities?
Not that there's anything wrong with art, science, philosophy, science, government, economics...as areas of learning.
It's just that by learning them as separate areas of thought, we miss their essence.
Unlike Plato, Kant, Shakespeare, Newton, and Adam Smith, we know the essence of reality. Physicists have (more or less) (mathematically) found what exists in the nucleus of the atom, and how the atoms interact with other atoms to build up to the objects we sense.
Scientists have also found mathematical patterns whichc explain much reality at the human and societal level.
Since the aim of education is ultimately to find truth, it is incumbent on us to be sure that at some point that is happening. The truth is that, at its core, reality is a fuzzy cloud of ethreal mathematical metaphors.
OK, that's a mouthful.
But if true, it certainly calls for a rethinking of K-12 and college level curricula.
Not that there's anything wrong with students and adults contemplating the age old questions probed by Plato, Shakespeare, Rousseau, and Sartre.
It's just that we can go deeper and farther.
If reality begins as a swirl of multidimensional fields and probability waves which ultimately ( and mysteriously) emerge as entangled atoms, molecules, substances, cells, genes, neurons, and us, we need some new learning structures to allow this knowledge to enter our culture.
If the natural world is better described by fractal sturctures than classical, that should be part of the educational paradigm as well. And if complex structures (like us) which emerge from simpler stuctures (like quarks) cannot be mathematically compared with those simpler structures, we should be aware of that.
Now if you made it this far, you must be thinking, "Wow, that sounds deep".
Sure, but not necessarily difficult to make part of our national curriculum.
Here's how it might go:
Grades
1-6
Reading, Particle Physics, Writing, Mathematics, Arithmetic, Complexity Science .... ....
7-12
The 3 R's, Calculus for Dummies, History, Deep Science for Dummies, Sociology, Entanglement
Government, Chaos, Economics, Complexity, Arts, Transcendence .... ....
Higher Education
Liberal Arts, Physics, Business, Science, Engineering, Art, Economics, Ultimate Concepts
Government, Complexity II, Arts, Actuarial, Law, Public Policy, Unity ... ...
Of course, detailed course content will be critical to a transition to a joint classical-quantum curriculum. Particle physics as introduced to gradeschoolers will be conceptual...what are fields, waves, particles...at an understandable level.
Deep science for junior high and high schoolers will involve beginning to see the connection between the matenatical and scientific structures whihc have ben found to remarkably represent the reality at the core of the atom.
Philosophy at the college level will probe the relationships between metaphors utilized by classical thinkers (Platonic Forms, Kantian Categories, Hegelian Spirit, Sartrean Essence, Smith's Invisible Hand, Rousseau's General Will...) and the metaphors of modern science and mathematics (fields, waves, groups, spaces, fractals, particles, dimensions, lagrangians, symmetry...)
Yes we can.
Lee
Not that there's anything wrong with art, science, philosophy, science, government, economics...as areas of learning.
It's just that by learning them as separate areas of thought, we miss their essence.
Unlike Plato, Kant, Shakespeare, Newton, and Adam Smith, we know the essence of reality. Physicists have (more or less) (mathematically) found what exists in the nucleus of the atom, and how the atoms interact with other atoms to build up to the objects we sense.
Scientists have also found mathematical patterns whichc explain much reality at the human and societal level.
Since the aim of education is ultimately to find truth, it is incumbent on us to be sure that at some point that is happening. The truth is that, at its core, reality is a fuzzy cloud of ethreal mathematical metaphors.
OK, that's a mouthful.
But if true, it certainly calls for a rethinking of K-12 and college level curricula.
Not that there's anything wrong with students and adults contemplating the age old questions probed by Plato, Shakespeare, Rousseau, and Sartre.
It's just that we can go deeper and farther.
If reality begins as a swirl of multidimensional fields and probability waves which ultimately ( and mysteriously) emerge as entangled atoms, molecules, substances, cells, genes, neurons, and us, we need some new learning structures to allow this knowledge to enter our culture.
If the natural world is better described by fractal sturctures than classical, that should be part of the educational paradigm as well. And if complex structures (like us) which emerge from simpler stuctures (like quarks) cannot be mathematically compared with those simpler structures, we should be aware of that.
Now if you made it this far, you must be thinking, "Wow, that sounds deep".
Sure, but not necessarily difficult to make part of our national curriculum.
Here's how it might go:
Grades
1-6
Reading, Particle Physics, Writing, Mathematics, Arithmetic, Complexity Science .... ....
7-12
The 3 R's, Calculus for Dummies, History, Deep Science for Dummies, Sociology, Entanglement
Government, Chaos, Economics, Complexity, Arts, Transcendence .... ....
Higher Education
Liberal Arts, Physics, Business, Science, Engineering, Art, Economics, Ultimate Concepts
Government, Complexity II, Arts, Actuarial, Law, Public Policy, Unity ... ...
Of course, detailed course content will be critical to a transition to a joint classical-quantum curriculum. Particle physics as introduced to gradeschoolers will be conceptual...what are fields, waves, particles...at an understandable level.
Deep science for junior high and high schoolers will involve beginning to see the connection between the matenatical and scientific structures whihc have ben found to remarkably represent the reality at the core of the atom.
Philosophy at the college level will probe the relationships between metaphors utilized by classical thinkers (Platonic Forms, Kantian Categories, Hegelian Spirit, Sartrean Essence, Smith's Invisible Hand, Rousseau's General Will...) and the metaphors of modern science and mathematics (fields, waves, groups, spaces, fractals, particles, dimensions, lagrangians, symmetry...)
Yes we can.
Lee
Thursday, December 25, 2008
The Essence of Christmas
Joy to the World...Silent Night...
How Christmas songs inspire.
Not just Christians... every one open to the idea that there is somethng beyond our physical senses.
John Denver's Rocky Mountain High, Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the wind, Simon and Garfunkle's Bridge over Troubled Waters...all call us to a reality beyond ourselves.
Martin Luther King thought religion at its best was inclusive. All of humanity, all being, share a common bond.
Jesus looked at as the manifestation of the spirit of goodness is a figure all can adore. When contemplating his essence, Christians strive to understand ultimate reality, the source of being.
At the beginning all was one...perfect symmetry ...a unity transcending the coming diversity.
Physicists have found a world of wonder at the core of being. Everything is made up of atoms. Atoms are made up of a virtual cloud of electrons orbiting a nucleus consisting of clouds of quarks.
There are not words or images to describe the core of reality .Only mathematical stuctures and the metaphors created to try to articulate any associated meaning.
The quarks and electrons themselves may be embedded in an interconnected, multidimensional, clouds of entangled wisps of nothingness.
So when we feel a transcendent joy in a work of music or art, when the smile of a stranger penetrates our being, when the suffering of a child rocks our soul...it may be our esence reacting to a transcendent force our minds cannot comprehend.
A version of the Golden Rule is at the core of most belief systems. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Is that a manifestation of a promordial urge to unify with all being?
As we leave this Christmas season and return to our separate worlds, is it possible that the Christmas Spirit can be a universal force which leads to global peace. Regardless of our belief system, can we strive to do unto others...?
Yes we can.
Lee
How Christmas songs inspire.
Not just Christians... every one open to the idea that there is somethng beyond our physical senses.
John Denver's Rocky Mountain High, Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the wind, Simon and Garfunkle's Bridge over Troubled Waters...all call us to a reality beyond ourselves.
Martin Luther King thought religion at its best was inclusive. All of humanity, all being, share a common bond.
Jesus looked at as the manifestation of the spirit of goodness is a figure all can adore. When contemplating his essence, Christians strive to understand ultimate reality, the source of being.
At the beginning all was one...perfect symmetry ...a unity transcending the coming diversity.
Physicists have found a world of wonder at the core of being. Everything is made up of atoms. Atoms are made up of a virtual cloud of electrons orbiting a nucleus consisting of clouds of quarks.
There are not words or images to describe the core of reality .Only mathematical stuctures and the metaphors created to try to articulate any associated meaning.
The quarks and electrons themselves may be embedded in an interconnected, multidimensional, clouds of entangled wisps of nothingness.
So when we feel a transcendent joy in a work of music or art, when the smile of a stranger penetrates our being, when the suffering of a child rocks our soul...it may be our esence reacting to a transcendent force our minds cannot comprehend.
A version of the Golden Rule is at the core of most belief systems. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Is that a manifestation of a promordial urge to unify with all being?
As we leave this Christmas season and return to our separate worlds, is it possible that the Christmas Spirit can be a universal force which leads to global peace. Regardless of our belief system, can we strive to do unto others...?
Yes we can.
Lee
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The Essence of Being
Every once in awhile, a book comes along which changes everything.
Is the world ready for a book which responds to the deepest questions of humankind?
Ideas from all ages and cultures flow into a common vessel which empties into harmony.
At creation all was one. The original unity, the harmony manifest at creation, continues to resonate in all being. The fields, waves, particles and dimensions released at the big bang continue to have their primordial connection.
We are made up of the atoms manifest at creation. The perfect symmetry at creation encompassed an entanglement of all. That entanglement connects us with each other and with all being.
Discoveries in particle physics, complexity science, and actuarial science have revealed this hidden connection. Buried in the mathematical structures which emerged in the deep and applied sciences in recent years are connections which point to the possibility of a standard model of everything. That model starts at the interior of the nucleus of the atom and radiates out to the institutions of the global society.
A bottom up perspective on this marvelous vision begins with the clouds of waves and fields which dance in the nucleus of each atom in the universe. The mathematical structures which describe the interactions within and outside the atoms have been found to apply to more complex, emergent structures, including those on the path to life and consciousness.
A top down approach begins with the institutions of our global society and drills down to the smallest systems mathematics can describe. While some pieces of the puzzle are missing, there is the appearance of a mathematical structure which points to the possibility of a connectedness which can become a metaphysical starting point for a philosophy of being which places us in a web of harmony.
Stay tuned.
Lee
Is the world ready for a book which responds to the deepest questions of humankind?
Ideas from all ages and cultures flow into a common vessel which empties into harmony.
At creation all was one. The original unity, the harmony manifest at creation, continues to resonate in all being. The fields, waves, particles and dimensions released at the big bang continue to have their primordial connection.
We are made up of the atoms manifest at creation. The perfect symmetry at creation encompassed an entanglement of all. That entanglement connects us with each other and with all being.
Discoveries in particle physics, complexity science, and actuarial science have revealed this hidden connection. Buried in the mathematical structures which emerged in the deep and applied sciences in recent years are connections which point to the possibility of a standard model of everything. That model starts at the interior of the nucleus of the atom and radiates out to the institutions of the global society.
A bottom up perspective on this marvelous vision begins with the clouds of waves and fields which dance in the nucleus of each atom in the universe. The mathematical structures which describe the interactions within and outside the atoms have been found to apply to more complex, emergent structures, including those on the path to life and consciousness.
A top down approach begins with the institutions of our global society and drills down to the smallest systems mathematics can describe. While some pieces of the puzzle are missing, there is the appearance of a mathematical structure which points to the possibility of a connectedness which can become a metaphysical starting point for a philosophy of being which places us in a web of harmony.
Stay tuned.
Lee
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