Central Theorem Focused on Each of Us
Everything we know comes through what we know through the senses, so physics, the study of the physical world, is the first science.
Therefore, all other branches of learning depend on this first science.
Therefore, if our physics is wrong, to that degree, so is everything else!
Each one of us digests and understands that which he gets through the senses
only with the help of his community, his culture.
1 That is, he, for good or ill, learns these fundamentals and that which builds on them
only with the aid of his parents, friends, teachers, and many others through various media, including books.
2The physics of our culture is an equation-alone physics, a physics that deals with symbols and systems of symbols. It is a physics that ends in an equation not in a fully physical understanding. Equations only exist in the mind.
Therefore our physics is incomplete, being still focused in our minds.
Now, since the thinking of each one of us is formed by the culture and everything in that culture has ultimately been formed by what modern physics teaches about the physical world, and since that physics, our physics, is an incomplete symbol physics, the thinking of each and every one of us is at best unstable and confused and often downright wrong and crazy.
Corollary:
The only way out of this is for experienced, high-level physicists to address the problem3 and then help everyone else restore that foundation (and then all the rest of our thinking which grows out of it) in themselves.
Again, none of this should be taken to imply that modern science is, in itself, a negative development. In fact, modern science is clearly essential and irreplaceable. Modern science and modern mathematics have in their own way made so many deep and wide advances, one risks understatement even trying to state it. The problem is that the equational form that is the most formed output of modern science needs to be grounded in the first simple things we know through the senses. Even to fill out what this means, let alone the deep research and education it calls for, is much more than can be said on a web page. For this, see, for example, Dr. Rizzi's Science before Science: A Guide to Thinking in the 21st century.
See also: How does the scientism proceed from the culture to me?
Footnotes:
1. Without this each of us would have a level of knowledge less than that of a caveman, who himself has a low level culture.
2. Note: this means you, your family and friends, as well as everyone else, are necessarily essentially formed by the thinking of the culture.
3. Only the highest level physicists can understand and give the basics in a way that can survive in the ordinary person's life. More completely, only the highest level physicist knows the highest
level specification of the physics, the full specification
of modern physics. The lowest level
physics is specified by that highest level physics and
points towards it. Therefore, only he can untangle from our complicated current understanding of the physical world
the basic physics we all need. Furthermore, only he can understand the basic physics in a way that
preserves that specification and the full
understanding of the equations.
Whatever minimal level of
understanding one might get without that
specification would be quickly destroyed by the
power of the higher level specification which is
operating and acting everywhere implicitly in all of
us.
