tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post8665915953814819016..comments2024-03-04T15:09:00.479-08:00Comments on The Scientific Worldview: From Matter in Motion to ConsciousnessGlenn Borchardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09394474754821945146noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post-8861329115507643082009-01-03T19:28:00.000-08:002009-01-03T19:28:00.000-08:00Thoughts:You are 100% correct. Materialism states ...Thoughts:<BR/><BR/>You are 100% correct. Materialism states that the universe consists of matter. Mechanism states that all matter is in constant motion with respect to all other matter. The Fourth Assumption of Science (see TSW) is INSEPARABILITY (Just as there is no motion without matter, so there is no matter without motion). This is why I have stated the Fifth Assumption (CONSERVATION) as this: Matter and the motion of matter neither can be created nor destroyed.<BR/><BR/>Since the late 19th Century, however, the concept of energy has replaced matter in the First Law of Thermodynamics. Experiments clearly showed that the conservation of matter was not enough; motion had to be conserved as well, as I have assumed above. Einstein’s erroneous view that matter could be turned into energy was an over simplification. As I have mentioned, E=mc2 simply is a way of relating the transformation of one kind of matter in motion or one kind of the motion of matter into another kind. Einstein left us with the conversion of matter into matterless motion, which makes him the most important immaterialist of the 20th Century. It was the completion of the program outlined by Ostwald who sought to overthrow “villainous matter” and replace it with “angelic energy.” Indeterminists, who are the dominant influence in physics and religion, appear to be quite satisfied with that.Glenn Borchardthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394474754821945146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post-18754787674362812562009-01-03T07:58:00.000-08:002009-01-03T07:58:00.000-08:00Glenn,The assumptions of Materialism and Conservat...Glenn,<BR/><BR/>The assumptions of Materialism and Conservation of Matter are not made by all scientists. Materialism is not an assumption of Special Relativity (see Wikibook on Special Relativity http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special_Relativity/Introduction#Historical_Development ). Conservation of relativistic energy-momentum is also a long way from the idea of the simple conservation of matter.Thoughtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17866896441731516034noreply@blogger.com