Thoughts of a Morning.

ALL particle physics philosophers (and therefore all modern consensus) make the following common mistake which may be epitomised in the following assertion: 'All the world's greatest paintings are only paint.' By this I mean they say that because the universe is understood in terms of a few elementary particles, they go about saying 'We are all only collections of quarks and electrons.' which is false. We are collections of quarks and electrons (in a certain very specific scientific sense) but we are not only these. Otherwise there were no difference between a pot of paint and the Sistine Chapel! This is why the downward perspective is deceiving, because we think it is leaving so many hallucinations and entering into reality. The truth is we never leave the hallucinations, going up or  going down. The truth is only known in its entirety, and this cumulative appreciation of qualities leads inexorably to God.

   Sometimes I have wondered if the speed limit of light is a kind of disproof of pantheistic omniscience, as a thought could not travel instantly from one part to another, but on reflection I realise that the very notion of speed and movement is restrictive, and only a measure of perceptible relative acceleration, not definitive as to essence (which indeed is shown in the observation that space, the fabric of Existence itself, expands at a faster rate than light). 'There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'