Part III Beyond “R3”
into contact with the awarenesses which generate the bases for the phenomena written about. It is these awarenesses which provide the true meanings behind the words printed and the diagrams drawn. Unless we can make sense within of how forces and levels of energy work, we cannot project them outside ourselves, into the contrived experiments forming the bulk of physical knowledge. Only through this process of projection of what the reader’s mind found in the text, can understanding of physics take place. This is the mechanism of “R4” in that field. Without it, readers, by using “R3,” will only lift words out of the printed pages and state that the matter is “above their heads.” But with it, “R4” becomes the “R3” of physicists. *** The other two scales come into physics when we extend our study of nature to the cosmic and microscopic universes respectively. In both cases physics works on models produced by the theoretical physicists, and what is written about them requires a new “R4” to be acquired by people other than the authors of the theories. The usual passage from the scale of mechanics to the other two scales is done through mathematics rather than through the somatic experiences mentioned above. What was possible in the human scale when it was made into mathematical equations (of different kinds: differential, partial differential, tensorial, operator, matrix and algebras etc.) allowed the perception that the scale could as easily be reduced or magnified, and this leads to a grasp of reality in which perception was purely through the
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