:"Abdu'l Baha explicitly says in Some Answered Questinos that ether is an
intellectual reality, not a phenomenal reality"
yes. and u can find einstein saying precisely the same thing about the
>>atom<<.
inre the ether, it is currently hypothesised that clouds of probability some
more real than matter--that matter itself is a way to discuss the operations of
clouds of probability. now, when the probability is 0--which 50% of the time it
is, where is that which would be probable? to answer that question, so that
indeation can continue, it is perfectly plausible to say the proability shifts
in/out of the ether, and end up with a statement congruent to all of the
Master's references to it.
the most (imho) tantalising of these references: "Similarly in the world of
being there exist forces unseen of the eye, such as the force of ether
previously mentioned, that cannot be sensed, that cannot be seen. However, from
the effects it produceth, that is from its waves and vibrations, light, heat,
electricity appear and are made evident.
(Abdu'l-Baha, Tablet to August Forel, p. 19)
if this causative effect is described as the enviornment setting terms of the
probability controlling the manifestation of the probability clouds that are
matter itself, we have a fairly compact intellectual, unseeable, unmeasurable
except by effect description of something that precsiely matches what quantum
physics is now pondering.
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it is my practice before deciding who is right to find out what is actually
being said.
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