A Muggle’s Bibliothek
last revision: 12/18/2023 16/2021
A Muggle’s Bibliothek
© Dr. Ing. Dipl Phys. M. Hüfner 2014
The physical world view between reality and surrealism
When I started studying astrophysics after the political change in East Germany, I initially had to overcome the hurdle of the English language that is typical for East German scientists. We were trained in Russian, but we didn't see any need for the English language. To learn this language self-taught, I used the children's books by J.K. Rowling on the wizarding student Harry Potter. I found these books very suitable for my project. The vocabulary was a bit manageable at the beginning and grew over the course of the exciting story. The plot developed in such a way that I read each book to the end and learned the vocabulary by heart in the process. So I was able to do without the annoying vocabulary learning entirely. J. K. Rowling's invented in their famous children's book series about the Magican’s pupil Harry Potter, the platform nine three-quarters at the King’s Cross Railway Station in London. You just would have to walk courageously on platform nine against the wall, to get from the real world into the fictional world of magicians. In the world of science, such a clear separation, for example by a wall between physics and metaphysics, would also be desirable. Unfortunately, in the last century the walls were deliberately torn down by an excessive mathematization of physics in order to reconcile faith with science, as the priest George Lemaitre and his colleagues dreamed of, and so the boundaries with all their join forces were fade away. Rowlings is also wonderfully successful in portraying the hypris of the black magicians in relation to the common people, the Muggles . Even the word Muggle contains all the arrogance of this guild. Leonard Susskind also describes this hubris in his book The Black Hole War . The parallels between these sectarian structures that are being described are so obvious that I felt compelled to adopt the term Muggle , especially since an entire generation internalized the adventures of Harry Potter, whose parents were killed by a black magician. Even in this days, it is detrimental to a physicist's career not to submit to their peer group discipline. It is my concern to bring the boundaries between the real and the fictional world back into consciousness, since mathematics as a humanities can cross these boundaries with impunity, which physics as a natural science must respect under all circumstances if it wants to represent reality. Today even physicists who have trained themselves find it difficult to distinguish between fantasy and reality. However, nothing is worse than getting lost in a hypothetical world. We want to get help from natural philosophy. The term metaphysics, which means as much as behind physics, comes from Aristotle and refers to the order of his treatise and means the things of the mind and what happens to it. To put it in a nutshell, one can say that metaphysics is everything that arises from human imagination, without having found a counterpart in reality. This also includes non-falsifiable scientific theories such as the standard models of cosmology and particle physics. These theories cannot be refuted because they are outside the world of experience and are pure speculation. Unfortunately, no dialogue about the contradictions in their standard model is possible with the leading astrophysicists, because despite many attempts by various experts on various occasions, they refuse to engage in any dialogue. Anyone who is arrogant enough to want to fathom the will of God, as St. Hawking put it in his book A Brief History of Time, cannot hold technical discussions with people without magical blood, such as engineers, even though basic research is financed by society's taxes are to benefit this society and not serve the private amusement. So there are astrophysicists on the one hand and engineers on the other. The engineers are Muggles in this game because they do a solid job that is controllable, while astrophysicists are currently moving away from verifiable facts. Since the beginning of the space flight era, so many facts have been gathered that the mainstream theses of astrophysicists are no longer tenable. The Mugglebibliothek has set itself the goal of gathering facts about space and reinterpreting them on the basis of natural philosophy.

How the name of the website came about.

last revision: 01/16/2023
© Dr. Ing. Dipl Phys. M. Hüfner 2014
Physics  between Reality and Surrealism
When I started studying astrophysics after the political change in East Germany, I initially had to overcome the hurdle of the English language that is typical for East German scientists. We were trained in Russian, but we didn't see any need for the English language. To learn this language self-taught, I used the children's books by J.K. Rowling on the wizarding student Harry Potter. I found these books very suitable for my project. The vocabulary was a bit manageable at the beginning and grew over the course of the exciting story. The plot developed in such a way that I read each book to the end and learned the vocabulary by heart in the process. So I was able to do without the annoying vocabulary learning entirely. J. K. Rowling's invented in their famous children's book series about the Magican’s pupil Harry Potter, the platform nine three-quarters at the King’s Cross Railway Station in London. You just would have to walk courageously on platform nine against the wall, to get from the real world into the fictional world of magicians. In the world of science, such a clear separation, for example by a wall between physics and metaphysics, would also be desirable. Unfortunately, in the last century the walls were deliberately torn down by an excessive mathematization of physics in order to reconcile faith with science, as the priest George Lemaitre and his colleagues dreamed of, and so the boundaries with all their join forces were fade away. Rowlings is also wonderfully successful in portraying the hypris of the black magicians in relation to the common people, the Muggles . Even the word Muggle contains all the arrogance of this guild. Leonard Susskind also describes this hubris in his book The Black Hole War . The parallels between these sectarian structures that are being described are so obvious that I felt compelled to adopt the term Muggle , especially since an entire generation internalized the adventures of Harry Potter, whose parents were killed by a black magician. Even in this days, it is detrimental to a physicist's career not to submit to their peer group discipline. It is my concern to bring the boundaries between the real and the fictional world back into consciousness, since mathematics as a humanities can cross these boundaries with impunity, which physics as a natural science must respect under all circumstances if it wants to represent reality. Today even physicists who have trained themselves find it difficult to distinguish between fantasy and reality. However, nothing is worse than getting lost in a hypothetical world. We want to get help from natural philosophy. The term metaphysics, which means as much as behind physics, comes from Aristotle and refers to the order of his treatise and means the things of the mind and what happens to it. To put it in a nutshell, one can say that metaphysics is everything that arises from human imagination, without having found a counterpart in reality. This also includes non-falsifiable scientific theories such as the standard models of cosmology and particle physics. These theories cannot be refuted because they are outside the world of experience and are pure speculation. Unfortunately, no dialogue about the contradictions in their standard model is possible with the leading astrophysicists, because despite many attempts by various experts on various occasions, they refuse to engage in any dialogue. Anyone who is arrogant enough to want to fathom the will of God, as St. Hawking put it in his book A Brief History of Time, cannot hold technical discussions with people without magical blood, such as engineers, even though basic research is financed by society's taxes are to benefit this society and not serve the private amusement. So there are astrophysicists on the one hand and engineers on the other. The engineers are Muggles in this game because they do a solid job that is controllable, while astrophysicists are currently moving away from verifiable facts. Since the beginning of the space flight era, so many facts have been gathered that the mainstream theses of astrophysicists are no longer tenable. The Mugglebibliothek has set itself the goal of gathering facts about space and reinterpreting them on the basis of natural philosophy.
Muggle’s Library

How the name of the website came about.