[Fis] Measuring Realism

Every word you write is correct.
The main conflict is not between what we perceive and how it is: this we cannot decide. The conflict is rather between what we perceive and how we explain it.
Either we have a measuring (counting, logical) system which is easy, unified, clear, consistent and simple; then Nature will appear to us as complicated, disunited-fractured, full of thresholds and constants, complex, partly inconsistent and hard to understand.
Or we have a measuring system (counting, logical system) which is complicated, disunited-fractured, full of thresholds and constants, complex, partly inconsistent and hard to understand; in this case, Nature will appear to us as easy, unified, clear, consistent and simple.

We have the basic ideas about counting (measuring) since Neanderthal unchanged and exclusively legitimate. Now maybe the time has risen to add another way of counting, where:
every single unit is different to every other unit,
the units come in clusters (units of a higher order),
the steps between two units are either unit height or not, it depends on some extra considerations,
the natural unit has the length of 2i**2 (this is how many electrons are on a layer),
opposites attract each other,
there are two kinds of units within a unit (like elctricity and magnetism),
one unit is by a fraction bigger than the unit (like proton+electron vs. neutron),
and many more weird properties of the measuring tape.

Either we have a simple measuring tape and then the things are complicated, or we have a state-of-the-art measuring tape (which needs less training than, say, a mobile phone) and mesured by means of that funny measurin�g atpe, the things can be classified, ordered, compared, explained much-much easier.

The proposal is to take a look at a natural counting unit which is a bit more application-oriented than the counting units defined in their basics by the Sumers and Assyrians and Hettites. Science has advanced since then a bit. Maybe we can use a measuring tape that has differingly long units, if we are up to the task.

Let us hope that we shall prove to be innovative.
Karl

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Received on Tue Jul 4 18:12:58 2006