Is Materialist Science Blowing Smoke Rings Up Your Ass

The American Scholar writes: 


Real objects cannot have infinite charge or mass or whatever. But when scientists in the 1950s started calculating those quantities with their latest and fanciest theories, infinities kept sprouting up and ruining things. Rather than abandon the theories, though, a few persistent scientists realized that they could do away with the infinities through mathematical prestidigitation. (Basically, they started calculating with and canceling out infinity like a regular old number, normally a big no-no.)


No one liked this fudging, but because it led to such stunningly accurate answers, scientists couldn’t dismiss it. In fact, the reigning paradigm in physics today—which describes the workings of invisible “fields” (similar to magnetic fields)— would not exist without this hand waving. And now physics is stuck with fields: they’ve become more fundamental to understanding the universe than mass or charge. Fields have become the very fabric of reality—even if our understanding of them relies on some unrealistic assumptions. Close explains how and why physicists resigned themselves to this tension and came to trust— even celebrate—how much smarter their equations were than they were.


This is about the notion of infinity. Like a SIMS game or WoW the virtual geography can go on forever. That's who we are. We're in a potentially infinite holographic universe learning lessons that we can take with us when we finally leave. Until then we keep coming back to get it right. All the data points towards this but doesn't 'touch' it. In this respect you need to make your mind up for yourself.

Jim Carters Circlons above are part of the physics on the fringe that is starting to leave the back scratching peer review boys looking like overpaid CERN  masonic scientists smashing up particles till there's nothing left to smash up. Ever.

Reality Is Not Objective - Thomas Campbell (Theory Of Everything)

Just in case you're not persuaded that we're in an holographic universe (virtual reality) these Thomas Campbell lectures get stuck into the quantum mechanics, the metaphysics and the big picture. This taps into my recent comment at Wired on quantum entanglement.

I hadn't seen these lectures before (only this interview) I wrote the Wired comment but it's very reassuring that some great people are explaining what I've pieced together in much better ways, much more comprehensively and with a bit of authority because I only got stuck into quantum mechanics in the last 18 months or so and, you know, I've made up the bits that I wanted to stitch it all together. 

Fortunately I wasn't too far off.

James Bond - How Hollywood Pretends We're The Tortured Not The Torturers

I've been slagging James Bond off ever since Roger Moore mothballed his etching efforts. However since learning that Kubrick filmed the Apollo 11 moon landing and the Bond people did a spoof of it in Diamonds Are Forever it's evident the intelligence douches got one over whoever runs the constructed-reality show at NASA as opposed to dog and pony show they serve up for us.

Usually the British and American intelligence agencies are in lock step over how they keep the gullible public from becoming aware of what really goes on through disinformation, misinformation, killing and torturing and anything they can lay their hands on to keep the people from knowing what really goes on. 

Casino Royale is a full on sympathy ploy by British intelligence who as we now know tortured people in Libya with the assistance of their friend Gaddafi before throwing him under a bus and then letting someone shoot him in this snuff video subsequently put out on the net.

Casino Royale yielded nothing, but I couldn't help but marvel at Bond's testicular torture scene. It's a shame they wont publish the real ones MI6 performed on people with Gaddafi's help. I don't think that particular story arc starts like this:

followed by a brief convalescence..

before getting back down to business again..

Balls of steel that man Bond. What a legend. What a fiction. What a bunch of scummy spies spinning lies for a gullible popcorn eating public.