Possibility and fact
According to
general understanding, science has to be based on facts, while everything that
opposes them is equaled to fantasies, an imitation of science. Few would have
confidence to reject this statement, neither have I, however I offer another
option: to show broader context, an expanded notion of fact. In the quest of
understanding reality broader thinking is always more effective than narrower
and shallower. I will start with the general picture and then delve deeper into
details. Again, I will be using the style of synopsis, which has to be complemented
with your own information.
In addition to
facts, there are possibilities, to understand which is equally important. This
idea can be explained by an example of the relation between a route and a map. The
map shows all the territory, all possible routes, therefore it is the sum of all
possibilities. The concrete travelled route, all points or segments, are facts.
We can see that the scope of possibilities is always broader than the facts, which
are certain choices or realizations, however facts always embody something from
the list of the possibilities. Understanding the use of maps, scientists draw
topographical plans of territories, as then it is much easier to model certain
choices. This idea is suitable for all areas, although not always easily
implemented.
We have to explore
all the structure of matter – find its map, looking not into facts but rather
into the list of abstract possibilities. All possibilities should be analyzed.
Space, movement in space and time may seem simple, however in reality they are
very complex systems. Thus, we should start from the entirety of possibilities,
from the map of reality, and only then we can find the factual realization of a
"route". Space, movement and time may seem to pose no problems,
however the map of matter is a very difficult task, to accomplish which we
would have to know all the layers, all the depth, which are assessed according
to abstract notion of continuum, its possible mathematical and parameter
spaces.
Solving this
problem, the choice is made to jump right to facts, but it is the same as to
look for a route without a map. It is very complicated. The real model of a
powerful mind is composed of the entirety of possibilities and a factual
realization, a map and a concrete route.
Such systems are
tied parameters, which allow transfering the world from the sphere of events to
the abstract space where it is explained how something always happens,
regularly, because certain elements are irrevocably tied. Therefore, a formula
is a map, the entirety of possibilities, concrete realizations are facts. The
only problem is that we do not know the whole map of reality and we do not have
the matrix of its all structures.
The question is the
following: Is it possible to draw the map theoretically? Or should one
travel all the routes, to gather all the facts? The distinction
between theoretical and experimental physics is made. It may not seem suitable,
because it is presumed that theorists ought to analyze data gathered by
experimentalists. This may be true, but this is not the only approach theorists
may choose. There is another method, which is called the continuum method where
the identity fractal notion is used, disassembled and combined in various ways.
The idea is that all parts of reality obey a certain structure of continuum.
Thus, with the model of all structures of continuum we will have the map, and
then we will be able to explore which possibilities are practically realized.
It is always easier to travel with a map. Also, the main thesis is that
drawing maps has the status of science too.
However, reality
is complex and its map, holoplastic picture, is unknown; very often, false
interpretations are held for facts, which by convention are made
"science". Let us imagine a situation. The sea depth is 1 km, but the
measuring device can measure 500 m. A measurement is made and it is determined
that the depth of the sea is 500 m. This is held an "unquestionable"
fact, although it is not the Truth, it is a false interpretation of the
defective measurement. Now let us imagine, that the sea is reality and we, with
our imperfect measuring device, want to measure the "depth" of
reality. The result of measurement is false, since it cannot reach the full depth
because of imperfection, despite that "the fact" is announced. It is
agreed to be "science". Then a better measuring device is made,
however imperfect too, and a new "fact" and new "science"
are created. The old goes to the dustbin.
Is there anything
useful we can see and understand in this situation? Science, having no map and
route, does not know the entire fact. It is a partial fact and
an interpretation. This is the reason why such facts are floating facts.
Therefore, the situation is that we do not have perfect means neither to draw
maps, nor gather facts when traveling, that is why nothing is satisfactory. We
cannot see everything as a possibility because of limitation of our reason, we
cannot travel the entire reality, for many places are simply inaccessible. That
is why science and "science" are not equal. The theories taught at
universities are not always science with the capital S. It is a convention of
groupings in science community, which fight for influence and money.
The trajectories
of theories change similarly to the trajectories of other kinds of information:
they begin with a future possibility, hypothesis, projection of the map. By
doing research and experiment this projection is made the conventional
"truth", which holds firm in the present. However, the future offers
new, better possibilities and this "truth" is pushed to the past into
an archive or the dustbin of history. This is the trajectory of
"science" as it usually happens. To have the status of
"science", it should work, but this does not always equal
truth, as understanding how it happens in reality may be based on false, despite
of that effective, notions.
We have a lot of
effective technologies; however, we have huge problems understanding the map of
the whole depth of reality.
Thus, science is a
lot of things, not only primitive factology, since this factology has a broader
context of intellectual manipulations. Those groups who think that their
"facts" are the best are an unbelievable laughing stock, or to be
more precise they are businessmen milking the cows of ideas, wishing that all
the cows were in their own grazing lands.
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