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Friday, September 25, 2020

Physical Reality or Mathematical Formalisms?

Today, we have a crisis in physical science that mirrors and maps onto the corresponding crisis in culture. This has to do with the irrationality of the provably false belief that a statistical array that apparently coheres approximately with some physical function may be substituted for causality. 

This has led to the embarrassing absurdity of a sort of latter day cargo cult quasi religion of string theory. In which we find an inextricable tangled mess of a imaginary figment known as the multiverse landscape of possible parallel worlds where reality is left completely and irremediably behind. If only these stultified probability junkies had picked up and comprehended Leibniz on the issue, they might never have been entranced futilely babbling to each other ad infinitum about unprovable yet putatively "beautiful mathematics."

As LaRouche has repeatedly pointed out about so called pure geometry given in the most advanced treatment to this date by Riemann, it is inadmissible to attempt to substitute, as in the manner of an algebra, it (pure geometry) for physical reality. Indeed, the great Riemann explicitly warned of just that in his groundbreaking doctoral thesis. 

"A decision upon these questions [i.e. of curvature type and dimensional manifold] can be found only by starting from the structure of phenomena that has been approved in experience hitherto, for which Newton laid the foundation, and by modifying this structure gradually under the compulsion of facts which it cannot explain. Such investigations as start out, like this present one, from general notions, can promote only the purpose that this task shall not be hindered by too restricted conceptions, and that progress in perceiving the connection of things shall not be obstructed by the prejudices of tradition.
This path leads out into the domain of another science, into the realm of physics, into which the nature of this present occasion forbids us to penetrate." 

And yet, that has been precisely the path taken that has led us into the present abyss. It is clearly an irrefutable tautology that statistics is not causality. However, it is also the case that irrationality is not beauty. And yet our would be authoritative cultural establishment has ordained the opposite. 

The mathematical forms taken from Riemann (for example the Riemann Roche theorem) have been "mapped" into statistical wave functions and become "reified" as physical substance. This has transformed Riemann's principled challenge of the false sense certainty of Euclidean space into the false axiomatics of "statistical space."  

Such perversity is nothing new. In fact it can be found at any historical epoch wherein the arbitrarily imposed will of an oligarchy is radically challenged. In particular in Plato's dialogues that record the open questioning of that very irrationality by Socrates resulting in his judicial execution by mob rule. This proceeds in the course of the Republic where Thrasymachus represents the justification for such arbitrary rule by force. This today is the essence of  the push toward geopolitical tyranny of global neoliberalism that goes hand in hand with the intellectual disability of and crisis of probabilistic "sciences."

 

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