String theory in its many formulations has yet to make predictions about reality. It not alone posits a greater than four dimensional spacetime but sees our actual living spacetime as only one of almost countless possibilities - all of which exist.
For the last twenty or so years, the best minds in theoretical physics have dedicated their whole energies to developing the many string theories that have emerged.
The increasingly bizarre paradigms of their world have not been critiqued by the world of philosophy. Why has this been the case given the revolutionary hypotheses being set before us?
That string theory may turn out to be a theoretical wrong turning for physics should not make philosophers happy in their passivity.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Pascal's Pensees
On holiday took the opportunity to peruse Pascal's Pensees and found there a total antipathy to science as a route to truth - this from one of the great mathematical minds!
I was disappointed yet felt that there was genuine depth to the revelatory metaphysics of this great man. In ways he was enlightened before his time and many of his ideas sit well alongside modern quantum theory - this is surely by chance since the science of the day was more mechanically deterministic. However it shows that his thinking went deeper than the level of his mathematics.
Who is the modern day Pascal?
I was disappointed yet felt that there was genuine depth to the revelatory metaphysics of this great man. In ways he was enlightened before his time and many of his ideas sit well alongside modern quantum theory - this is surely by chance since the science of the day was more mechanically deterministic. However it shows that his thinking went deeper than the level of his mathematics.
Who is the modern day Pascal?
Friday, April 23, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
The Island - proving most popular download!
It's great to see a more obscure and difficult work like 'The Island' being the most popular download for 'Read an eBook Week'.
I hope those who can struggle through its depths will be amply rewarded.
There is so much out there for us all...
I hope those who can struggle through its depths will be amply rewarded.
There is so much out there for us all...
Friday, March 5, 2010
Read an eBook week
From March 7th to 13th it is 'Read an eBook Week'
My ebooks on www.smashwords.com/profile/view/desgreene will be free!!!! for the week.
Enjoy!
My ebooks on www.smashwords.com/profile/view/desgreene will be free!!!! for the week.
Enjoy!
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
New Philosophical Novel
"The Island" is my latest novel dealing with my interest in the linkage of philosophy and modern science - mainly quantum theory.
It is available on www.amazon.com and I'd welcome any reviews or comments whatever!
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