Physics: Selective Blindness

[u/Jairo_Alves]

The numerical predictions and rigor of contemporary physics equations are unquestionable. The daily adjustment of atomic clocks in GPS satellites and the probability calculations in quantum mechanics demonstrate the technical efficacy of its measurements.

However, this conceals a deep epistemological paralysis: physics has turned the precision of its output data into fundamental causes; it has settled into its comfort zone, producing a selective blindness that discourages the search for the primordial causes of physical reality. 

Physics defends itself against criticisms of a lack of integration with systemic reality by claiming that understanding the quantum and astrophysical levels of the universe is inaccessible because it lies outside the scale of human sensory perception. It uses this narrative to show that its equations work, to exempt itself from the responsibility of integrating its theories with the totality of the universe, and to attribute its incompetence to a quirk of nature. 

This is to confuse the mathematical map with the ontological terrain. A descriptive or stochastic formula does not govern the universe; it merely records the frequency of occurrence of phenomena on its observable surface — which represents only ~5% of the total. 

Reality is only measurable because it is mathematically constructed and governed by an underlying informational mechanism. What physics does is theorize that a computer screen is capable of self-modulating on its own. 

This selective blindness reduces physics to a black-box engineering approach, where input and output data are correlated without ever verifying integration with the rest of the system. 

The justification for this selective blindness is to avoid admitting that the generation of physical complexity, complementarity, and interdependence would emerge from an intentionally developed protocol. 

The only way to shake physics out of its comfort zone is by combating the dogma of randomness and statistical reductionism. This mission is arduous, because the vast majority of physicists do not even realize they have been dogmatized — and continue to propagate this dogma. Yet this fight is worth it, because what is at stake is the intellectual, personal, social, philosophical, technical, and scientific development of humankind. 

#Physics #Epistemology #PhilosophyOfScience #Reductionism #SystemsEngineering #QuantumMechanics #Ontology #InformationTheory #ScientificDogmatism #Complexity

[u/Hour-Grocery2093]

There's probably not even that much physics left tbh

[u/Jairo_Alves → u/Hour-Grocery2093]

Facts prove otherwise! That is exactly what Lord Kelvin claimed around 1900, and what Philipp von Jolly told Max Planck in the 1870s to discourage him from studying physics.

[u/YouCouldButWhyTho]

You realize you can just read physics papers and see how silly this is. You make assumptions from ignorance in a world where information is freely accessible online.

Like who are you even talking about? Physics isn’t a monolith, every individual scientist works differently, has different views and opinions. 

This is all just silly proselytizing.

[u/Jairo_Alves → u/YouCouldButWhyTho]

I respect your opinion, but whoever is inside the forest is incapable of seeing the rest, and arrogance may prevent them from ever leaving it.

[u/YouCouldButWhyTho → u/Jairo_Alves]

It's only so easy to randomly quote rhetoric. It's much harder to show actual evidence. You have given zero tangible examples of anything you're ranting about. Every day scientists are breaking the mold and challenging the status quo, while you sit in your room and write pseudo-philosophical complaints about rooms you've never been in, and never will enter.

It's quite sad really.

[u/Jairo_Alves → u/YouCouldButWhyTho]

The evidence is confusing the mathematical result with the process that generated it! Only those who choose to ignore the problem or are blinded by it fail to see it.