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A Muggle’s Bibliothek
© Dr. Ing. Dipl Phys. M. Hüfner 2014
The physical world view between reality and surrealism
Essays
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The
astrophysicist
Harald
Lesch,
known
throughout
Germany,
said
in
an
interview that he saw no contradiction between science and faith.
My
credo
is:
Science
begins
where
you
question
your
beliefs
and
to
these
questions find new answers.
It
is
said
that
people
are
rational.
Why,
I
wonder,
do
so
few
people
use
this
gift?
Instead,
they
feel
they
have
to
represent
things
that
go
against
their
common sense just to emulate the majority.
Norway's
great
son
Kristian
Birkeland
died
100
years
ago
in
Tokyo.
His
discovery
of
the
cause
of
the
aurora
was
confirmed
50
years
later,
putting
it
in
line
with
the
discoveries
of
Copernicus,
Galileo
and
Newton.
He
was
nominated for the Nobel Prize seven times without ever having received it.
Along
with
energy,
force
is
one
of
the
most
important
concepts
in
physics.
Four
types
of
forces
are
commonly
distinguished.
However,
there
is
only
one unit concept for forces. Consequently, there is only one kind of force.
J.
Needham
has
emphasized
that
Western
thought
has
always
vacillated
between
the
notion
of
a
world
that
is
an
automaton
and
a
theology
according
to
which
God
rules
the
universe.
He
called
it
the
peculiar
European schizophrenia.
An
experiment
has
shown
that
the
sun
works
very
differently
than
expected.
In
the
past,
experimenters
did
not
understand
thermodynamics.
If
you
want
to
increase
the
order
in
the
atoms,
you
have
to
remove
entropy
and
not
add
it.
Under
the
influence
of
the
papal
academy,
quantum
mechanics
stripped
physics
of
its
materialistic
basis
at
the
beginning
of
the
20th
century.
Acausal
statements
became
fashionable.
Nowadays
the
influence
of
the
church
is
fading and physics should find its way back to its materialistic position.
Our
cosmos
is
an
open
system
and
all
light
phenomena
are
based
on
electromagnetic
phenomena,
as
Maxwell
already
described,
caused
by
the
movement
of
charges.
This
also
includes
the
electormagnetic
radiation
of
the sun, which is generated by nuclear fusion.
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Obviously,
Albert
Einstein
did
not
understand
Maxwell's
equations,
otherwise
he
would
not
have
thought
of
symmetrizing
them
and
destroying
their
true
meaning.
The
Lorentz
transformation
used
for
this
is
a
projective
mapping
and
this
is
not
a
physical
process.
Also,
dynamics
has
nothing
to
do
with
symmetry.
Einstein
then
had
the
naive
idea
of
standing
on
a
stationary
light
wave, only then no ray of light would ever have reached his eye.
The
social
requirement
on
physics
is
to
study
nature’s
energy
supply
so
that
we
can
derive
technical
processes
from
it.
At
least
that
was
the
demand
on
physics
at
the
time
of
my
studies
50
years
ago.
Modern
physics
seems
to
be
very far removed from this nowadays.
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