Quantum Eschatology - The Language of the Universe E-Book

Gebhard Deißler

• Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

Scientific Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, , course: Anthropo-Kosmologie, language: English, abstract: Since times immemorial cultures and civilizations have been trying to unravel the mystery of creation and of the universe. Man’s ability to ask questions, to interconnect answers and to recognize cause-effect relationships prompted him to penetrate ever more deeply into the mystery of creation. Most cultures and civilizations pushed their questioning to the point of asking what interconnected the whole of the universe, the visible and the invisible alike. Answers to those last questions about what sustained the universe and man were offered in the form of consciousness in South-Asia, in the form of Chi or Ki in East Asia, in the form of personal Gods and deified entities in other parts of the world. All of them seem to contain some of what we assume to be the truth to this very day. Ancient Greece, the Cradle of Western civilization came up with the term ether as the fifth quintessential element that, as prana or Chi/Ki (Chinese/Japanese) connected the entire field of the world. And these beliefs are being adhered to by many cultures to this very day. Even quantum physics with its refinement as quantum field theory could not go beyond an electromagnetic interconnected field that seems to hold together the tangible universe. In its representatives’ views electromagnetic waves constituted the interconnected field that supported the whole. This assumption was extended, as the dominant science paradigm of the era, from the microcosm of subatomic particles also readable as waves since Bohr’s wave-particle theory of the early 20th century to the macrocosm including the universe of man, who seems to occupy a position of the middle on the continuum from infinity to infinity. The latter was assumed to be the case by the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. As a creature of the middle this position suggested interdependence in relationship to the periphery that entailed that middle. Although, the term interconnected field emerged only later in particular in connection with the quantum paradigm. [...]