[Marsha]:
What does "a fascinating demonstration of dimensional
relativism that showed the limitations of human perspective."
mean??? Are you somehow explaining to us a perspective that is outside
"the limitations of human
> perspective"?????????
[Magnus]:
I stopped to think once or twice about that too. Personally, I think it's
just his fancy way of saying that
he was surprised to know how small an atom is, and how small the atom's
nucleus is.
I guess I should have been clearer in explaining my reaction to 'Moonwalk'.
The overall thrust of this production was to relate the quantum and macro
universes to man's (normal) view of reality -- in other words, to
demonstrate the "flexibility of perspective". By projecting these realms as
a variable, and visually shifting the locus of awareness back and forth, we
understand that our experience of the world lies midway between the bundles
of energy that make up the atoms and the galactic bodies that comprise the
Milky Way.
I think the visual technology, together with the physicist's commentary, is
both mind-gripping and intellectually enlightening. The video would be
ideal as a classroom tool, particularly for science teachers. My only
complaint, from a philosophical perspective, is that the viewer comes away
with an energy-based concept of reality. While this is of course the
objectivist viewpoint of Science, a philosopher might have documented it
differently.
Appreciate your continuing interest in "Ham's views", and hope that the
above explanation is more comprehensible.
Essentially yours,
Ham
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