On 5/1/2019 7:06 PM, Jeffrey Brian Downard wrote:
Peirce's fundamental hypotheses concerning the nature of time
and space--and the relations between them--may very well run
deeper and look further towards the future than what Einstein
had to offer.
To a large extent that is true. Peirce knew that the orbit
of Mercury did not conform to Newton's theory of gravitation.
Newton claimed that the gravitational field follows an
inverse-square law.
But Peirce noted that the exponent for Mercury was not 2, but 2.01.
Many physicists claimed that was just an error in measurement, but
Peirce insisted that any error in the measurements was much less
than 0.5%. And he was right.
Peirce also suspected that space was only approximately Euclidean.
He wanted to get funding to determine whether the sum of the
angles of a triangle at astronomical distances was precisely
180 degrees. But the funding was denied.
Peirce also believed that the fundamental laws of physics had
evolved over time. Today's theories predict that the four
fundamental forces (gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong
and weak nuclear forces) were indeed different at the time of
the Big Bang and shortly thereafter.
Einstein does not appear to accept the reality of chance.
In fact, he argues against it.
Yes. Einstein never accepted the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
In 1905, he wrote the fundamental paper that showed that light was
quantized in little packets (later called photons). But he never
accepted the Heisenberg uncertainty principle or the claims that
the underlying laws of quantum mechanics are probabilistic.
Call it the law of mind, if you will. Or, call it the law governing
the association of the different qualities that energy may take based
on their respective relations of attractability and affectability.
David Bohm was a physicist who published fundamental research on
quantum mechanics and a widely-used textbook on QM. But he also
published some intriguing ideas related to those issues. Among
them, see
http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/DavidBohm-WholenessAndTheImplicateOrder.pdf
John
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