2012 Daily

If the LHC Particle Is Real, What Is One of the Other Possibilities than the Higgs Boson? (by Huping Hu, Maoxin Wu): In the prespacetime model, an unspinized particle governed by a matrix law is the precursor of all spinized particles and thus steps into the shoes played by the Higgs particle. We speculate here that what has been found at the LHC, if real, is plausibly the unspinized particle of the prespacetime model. The wave function of a fermion or boson is respectively a bispinor or bi-vector but that of the unspinized particle is two-component complex scalar field.

Luminous Ground: The Zero with a Thousand Faces (by Iona Miller): Whether or not the universe arises from ‘Nothing” depends on what one means by that word. A ‘quantum vacuum,’ can be distinguished from the philosopher’s, mystic’s or theologian’s idealized ‘nothing’. What we formerly took for nothing turns out, on closer examination, to have the makings of electrons, protons and neutrons. Ever since physics first penetrated the atom, a new kind of uncertainty has become a principle of science. The archetypes of cosmic history are those of raw nature. Nothing has ever existed.

Review of Henri Bergson's Book: Creative Evolution (by Stephen P. Smith): Spirit, and the mystery implied by vitalism, is reduced to the deep mystery of time and its two windows. Bergson's vitalism appears to us as a great differentiation and fragmentation, followed by a division of labor. But the support given to our eyes to which appearance is given is a sentience capable of the most subtle awareness coming as hindsight, and this quality may go unnoticed in mere appearance that sees only differentiation. Is humanity doomed to its intellect, unable to find the intuition we need?

Review of Thomas S. Kuhn's Book: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (by Stephen P. Smith): Kuhn rejects the attainment of truth that comes from science, but then he is found accepting the absolute truth of a Darwinian evolution now operating above the conflicts of science. To Kuhn, only this blind watchmaker drives the emergence of new scientific paradigms, and a successful paradigm is fittest merely because of an empty politics. Kuhn goes from contradiction to a circular argument: that science finds no truth because truth is not permitted at the level of the paradigm.

Scientific GOD Journal has just published Volume 3 Issue 8 entitled "On Matter, Spacetime, Materialist Metaphysical Dogmatism & Reflexive Praxis" at http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/issue/view/26 :

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More Thoughts on Light, Matter, Space & Time (by Himangsu S. Pal)

Reflections on Materialist Metaphysical Dogmatism (Part I) (by Graham P. Smetham)

Reflections on Materialist Metaphysical Dogmatism (Part II) (by Graham P. Smetham)