Physical Modelling of the Universe

Summary

Physical modeling of the universe has gone through four phases Classical Mechanics, Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and Implicate and Explicate Order:

Ideas

• Isaac Newton (Classical Mechanics):
  • Universe modeled using Euclidian (Planar) Geometry,
  • Newton's Laws of Motion form the basis of Classical Mechanics,
  • Objects are particles,
  • Behaviour is deterministic (can be calculated from their motion, caused by their mutual attraction, ie by the force of gravitity),
  • No Mediator Force.
• Albert Einstein (Relativity):
  • Universe modeled using Non-Euclidian (Curved) Geometry,
  • Objects are particles,
  • Behaviour is deterministic (can be calculated from forces),
  • Added Relativity and Space-Time Curvature to the model,
  • Added a Mediator Force added to model, as Space-Time Curvature affects gravitational forces at high object velocity,
  • Information transmission about objects is not instantaneous and is limited to a maximum of the Speed of Light.
• Max Born, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger, Wolfgang Pauli, and Paul Dirac ( Quantum Mechanics):
  • Objects are both particles and waves,
  • Behaviour is deterministic at large (astrophysics/ cosmology) scales but indeterministic at small (atomic/ sub-atomic physics) scales,
  • Faster than light transmission of information.
• David Bohm ( Implicate and Explicate Order):
  • Was a student of Albert Einstein,
  • Relativity and Quantum Mechanics contradict each other,
  • Implies a more fundamental theory, representing an undivided wholeness and an Implicate Order, from which arose the Explicate Order of the universe as we experience it,
  • Implicate Order applies both to matter and consciousness,
  • Defined Active Information as instantaneous transmission of information,
  • Holographic Paradigm where Quantum Field contains information about whole environment and guides particle motion,
  • Holomovement is motion guided by Active Information,
  • Consciousness as an essential feature of the holomovement.
  • Mind and matter as being interdependent and correlated, but not causally connected.
  • Every part contains the whole and can be used to reconstruct the whole,
  • Non local forces, carrying holistic information,
  • Quantum Field is Implicate Order as encodes all information about everything else,
  • Bohm's ideas inspired Fritjof Capra's new vision of a paradigm shift from a mechanistic worldview of Rene Descartes (Cartesian) and Isaac Newton (Newtonian) to an holistic, ecological view.