Scientific Riddles In Context

Of course these "catch 22" riddles need not deter inquiry. Instead they excite curiosity: both about objective reality and the anatomy of our own minds. Therefore some conceptual opinions are suggested here—theses inviting further discussion—as analytic tools for scientific inquiry (operationally) incorporating the human mind into the traditional subject matter of empirical science: consisting mainly of our "material" surroundings.

Tinkertoy Townhouses
(Departure from Aristotelian science symbolized by San Francisco condos)

Advances in nuclear science might forthcome, for example, from routinely renewed attention to the effects of human observation/measurement upon waves-to-particles. New inquiries might be reorganized—as a matter of streamlining the semantics involved—within the context of such human effects, comprehensively, upon the energetic turbulence of our unified Aesthetic Continuum. (It can be expanded, incidentally, into conceptualizations concerning the physical fabric of surrounding space/time: winding energetically in and around itself into derivative dimensions of physical reality.)

Physicists' proliferation of sub-atomic configurations traditionally outside the context of human cognition (inside a continuum) should fall into place evocatively within this centralizing context. They could then see some surprisingly simple solutions to riddles, notably, about the speed of entities beyond the "light barrier."

Breaking The Barrier

Power
(Nichols Junction along old 66)

Various equations have already surpassed the barrier concerning, for example, instantaneous effects of reversed polarizations running throughout the physical fabric when regarded, indeed, as a continuum. Physicists are finally focusing on the (compositional) effects of such manipulations.

These advances are reported in Net notices collected by my friend Dr. Robert Gibbons. One, for example, speculates that "tachyons" can travel faster than light. Robert has collected them pursuant to a special expertise: he is widely known as the first to teach a college course on astrophysics implicated in the "Star Trek" TV series.

Another notice (from 1998) describes the "Trekesque teleportation" of a photon across one European lab "at infinite speed." It further postulates that such spectral configurations are poised as "indeterminate quantum states"--until they are measured. They then "collapse" into states amenable to faster-then-light communication through promising "quantum" computer technology.

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