The Physics of True hope
Enjoy true hope- the experience of sustaining potential.
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True hope – the experience of sustaining potential.
This site explores how we can enjoy true hope of physics by embracing the continuous, universal transformation and employing the sustaining power of transcendent words. It illustrates how we can be liberated from the misery of delusive hope and enjoy the bounty of true hope. In the process we develop a greater science in the communication of the nature of energy and caring for vital climate balances. The universal potential can be manifest in more sustaining ways.
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
We are our language.
A touch of a button and the Internet ceases to be.
A passing storm and printed paper is gone.
Mould may consume painted parchment.
The seas, soils and sands may bury carved stones
There is one medium that can survive for over 10,000 years and that is a good story founded in the reality of physics, the ways of the universe. Such a story can be stored in the human brain, embedded in our language and woven into the song and dance of the people so it sustains them for many hundreds of generations.
Every word is a story in itself speaking of and informing our place in the universe. So we are wise to give care to knowing what we are saying for, without compassion, we lose our way amidst the continuous, universal change.
It is not easy because, like all the other countless, myriad forms of energy, we exist as fleeting, dynamic balances of complementary forces.
Our finite state of being means existence involves paradox, which forms a great mystery to us. How can two separate, contradictory things simultaneously be the same thing? The Mobius Loop illustrates in an exquisite wordless way both the limitations of our thought process and the wonder of the universe.
Light ~ dark. In ~ out. On ~ off. Our minds endlessly flit back and forth between each word and can only makes nonsense of them.
As with energy, we are all vitally intimate with paradox and yet no one knows what it is. We experience it with every breath, with inhalation of exhalation, with day of night, with sound of silence…we experience paradox in every sentient moment. To quote Søren Kierkegaard
“…the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.”
We live the paradox of information: we inform all even as we are informed by all.
Here is our conundrum: our survival depends on our capacity to transcend paradox, to be able to make sustaining sense of the light of the dark, the dark of the light. How can we better transcend our human condition?
This is the story of all our lives in which we find our selves acting the role of the central character while writing the plot using words that constantly change their meaning and transform our worldviews.
In particular, this is a story involving two complementary, contradictory forces in our psyche who arise simultaneously in any moment of our self-awareness – an exclusive, divisive force (the ego or “I”) and its complement, an inclusive, connective force (compassion).
While a drawing can express our paradoxical state of being in ways words never can, it also fails to convey the dynamic interaction of the complementary forces of the ego and compassion.
It’s a story of how our survival depends on our capacity to maintain a healthy balance of these two forces, an endeavour made fiendishly difficult by the insatiable acquisitiveness and the incredible, ingenious self-deceits of the ego.
Without compassion, the ego has the capacity to make even the most well-intentioned person to become their own worst enemy and ultimately self-destruct, generating much misery in the process. However with compassion, we are reminded in the great wisdom of the principles of physics and can be better enabled to transcend our human condition.
This story places great store on the Conservation of Energy Principle as a means of transcending our human condition. The principle is deemed trustworthy because it has never been faulted despite the most ingenious, intense scrutiny that men (human beings) are capable of. Its wisdom has sustained societies for many millennia and those who have denied its reality have soon perished.
It is almost certainly the nearest we have to a universal truth.
With compassion, this great principle can be used as a universal benchmark for evaluating the sustainability of our use of words and ensuring they better enable us to act in harmony with the ways of the universe.
In brief, the principle reminds us we exist amidst the continuous, universal transformation and, like all the other myriad forms of energy, we live the paradox of information: any form informs all even as it is informed by all.
And, whether we know it or not, we live the paradox that any use of a symbol simultaneously reflects and generates the state of being of the user.
This is why it is helpful to see The Conservation of Energy Principle as foundational to the map of our situation – see below. This profound principle enables us to transcend our mortal, moral human formation and generate better language and education systems so the universal potential can be manifest in more sustaining ways.
Cartoon illustrating the dynamic relationship between the psyche between its forces of compassion and the ego set against the wider context of the continuous universal transformation.
Our survival depends on a healthy balance of these forces for our state of balance determines the sustainability of our interaction.
Below are links to articles discussing the theory and practice of conserving the transcendent power of our language using the wisdom of the Conservation of Energy Principle.
Please note: while much of the framework is in place, the website is still under construction (December 2024) .
Please return to view unfinished pages. Thank you – author Dave McArthur