Universal Philosophy

Q1. Harald Welzer, “Obituary for Myself”

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(The list of earlier books commented by Peter Jakubowski can be found here.)

Below you can see three excerpts from the latest book by Harald Welzer, "Nachruf auf mich selbst" (S. Fischer Verlag, 2021). My commentary (coloured green) mainly concerns the fragments of the quotes marked in blue.

"Mr. Ochs gets scared

... But once again: Where is the adversarial element? It is based on the simple fact that we, as natural beings, are mortal and will die in the unfortunate event of a catastrophe, even if we have done everything right up to that point - gone to school properly, received an education, donated to Greenpeace and have always been careful to look good. None of this is of any use if something happens. The catastrophe is the serious case of enlightenment, because only when it occurs does it become clear what use all the knowledge, all the problem-solving ability is to us. If you are lucky, a lot, if you are unlucky, nothing. ... Catastrophes cannot be abolished.

... This means that social events and above all their results cannot be understood causally, unlike physical events, for example, but only within the framework of relationships between people. And they take place in time, dynamise or slow down, escalate or break down. And it is precisely at this point that I return to the beginning of the book: that the actions of such networks of relationships can take wrong directions and - perhaps even with the best of intentions - become self-destructive. ...

For a truly enlightened approach to the world, 250 years after Kant, it would make sense to recognise that alongside progress, which is conceived as eternal, there is also its opposite - regression - or annulment, namely catastrophe, the rupture of civilisation. To reckon with this is a compelling prerequisite for being able to recognise and deal with the central problem of the 21st century and its numerous side problems: global warming, mass flight and migration, the extinction of species, pandemics and everything else that is carelessly called a "crisis". ... All this can only be described as 'complex' and 'inscrutable' if one has no concept of finitude. Conversely, from the point of view of finitude, everything that is rolling towards mankind as a self-made doom in the 21st century becomes quite simple to understand. So: What if we fail?"

Comment by P.J.: This is exactly the kind of break in civilisation we are experiencing live around the year 1989. It is not a human date, but a "cosmic" date that has been fixed in the long chain of the Universal Time Scale of the Cosmic Hierarchy of the Solar System since the formation of the Solar System. The events we have observed and witnessed in which we humans have been internally involved, such as the collapse of the Soviet Union, are events that originated as a result of fluctuations in the supply of cosmic energy to Earth rather than being controlled by any secret power groups. The murderous Medieval Civilisation finally came to an end, as did the five so-called "Great Civilisations of Modern Humanity" before it; see the article "Our First Global Civilisation".

"You cannot negotiate with Nature

... In the course of the corona pandemic, there was the important realisation that you cannot negotiate with a virus, you cannot deal with it. This is generally not possible with the natural prerequisites of the human life form - the maintenance of a life-enabling average temperature and an intact biosphere are non-negotiable. ... That is why all the efforts to negotiate international climate treaties, which are then implemented nationally by trying to balance economic, political and social interests with ecological ones, are irrational and in a way childish. ... You can see immediately that such a climate policy is nothing other than an antropomorphism that thinks it is politics. Childish crap. After half a century of the ecology movement, it is time to grow up, to say goodbye to the idea of making deals and to take note of the feedback from the earth and climate system that we are incessantly being told. The fiction of perpetual progress through perpetual continuation must be enlightened by a culture that learns to stop. Growing up is a process of learning that you can't have everything you once thought you could have. …

The time for externalising the costs of our lives to other spaces and other times is over, the problems have become too present for that. There is no spectator position from which to view end-time scenarios and doom with a comforting eerie feeling, it is time for reality. Now."

Comment by P.J.: compare the articles "UP5. Why environmental protection is necessary, but climate protection is impossible" and (in German for the moment) "How Mars influences our weather".

"The new

... The ability to act naturally includes the possibility of doing something wrong - but one can be socially freed from the consequences of this wrong by others forgiving the mistake. As banal as this sounds, it is central for Arendt, because in her view the core of freedom lies in forgiveness ... In Arendt's theory, forgiveness is in turn tied to the capacity to promise, in which she sees the most important organising principle of human affairs: The openness of the future, the uncertainty of expectations can only be endured and managed by people making promises to each other - individually in the form of declarations or even contracts, socially and culturally through the most diverse forms from the fulfilment of duties to the assumption of responsibility. The 'capacity to make and keep promises', writes Arendt, has 'the inherent power to secure the future'.

Indeed, human societies, and especially modern democracies, are based on trust, and this trust is always related to the fact that something will still be as reliable and stable in the future as it is now, in the present. Promise therefore also means responsibility, and where a promise - because there are coincidences, unforeseeable developments, errors, etc. - could not be kept, the ability to forgive ensures that trust as a whole can remain intact. ... In this sense, people are never to be understood as individual beings, but are always related to each other in their speech and actions and are not determined with regard to the consequences of their actions, but are flexible. ...

Comment by P.J.: compare the article "UP8. The diagnosis of illness in our world community".

It is this period between birth and death in which human beings - unlike other animals - are not trapped in a determined course of destined things and processes, but can act and thus 'start something new'. ... Each and every one of us had joined the others, which is why each and every one of us can give the course of things a different direction with our ability to act. ...

Comment by P.J.: compare the contributions "UP11. Our souls are our origin", "UP2. Participate in the Universal Philosophy" and "UP4. Become an ambassador of the New Knowledge".

To be able to begin is the condition for being able to stop, and just as birth and death span the space of action for the human lifespan, so both to be able to begin and to stop are the conditions of human freedom.

In this sense, we need a cultural model in which the beauty of cessation is given the status necessary for the continuation of the civilisational project. Once again, improving, even optimising processes that are going in the wrong direction makes everything worse. Stopping is necessary, it must be learned again as a human cultural technique. So that one can also begin again."

Comment by P.J.: compare the posts "O4. There are no absolute truths" and "O2. Physics in a dead end".

Unified Physics

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And I quote myself from my latest book, "There are no stupid questions, only sometimes stupid answers." (Yes, commonly known, but still true!).

Unified Physics

O6. Appeal to science journalism

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Düsseldorf, 9th November, 2021

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is my renewed appeal to you regarding a matter that concerns us all.

Let us first establish some facts.

1. Physics is our human, scientific description of Nature.
2. Physics is the basis of all natural sciences and technologies.
3. The unification of all conceivable branches of physics has been a dream of many physicists, most notably Albert Einstein.
4. I have been an unusual physicist who has devoted the last 40 years to the real unification of all physics. Today I call myself more of a universal philosopher.
5. It was a question of time, but also of perseverance, until this unification was realised.
6. The fact that it was I who succeeded in doing so is secondary. However, it could only be realised by a real human being (i.e. not by an AI or a computer simulation).

Secondly, some references.

7. The core of Unified Physics has been published in the international journal Physics Essays (three introductory articles in 1990 and 1992, and a final series of seven articles in 2015-2017).
8. As this journal is too expensive for the general readership ($100 per issue), I have also written a book as a summary of Unified Physics (2017, in English): "Unified Physics; which Einstein & co. dreamed of and is finally realised now").
9. For German-speaking readers, I have also written a German summary of Unified Physics (2018, "Bioresonances in Unified Medicine").
10. My transition from Unified Physics to Universal Philosophy is marked by the 2020 book "Physics was Yysterday, Universal Philosophy is today".
11. The most important book of Universal Philosophy, however, is the latest book: "I, You, and All of Us; Where do we come from, and how can we build a Familiar Democracy". (Both books 10. and 11. are linked here.)

Thirdly: The purpose of the appeal.

12. It is clear to me that the new physics will fundamentally change not only all of science and technology, but also our culture and the way we live together.
13. My task is to help you to become aware of this as well.
14. Your task would be to make Unified Physics, Unified Science and its consequences for our common future known and understandable to the rest of the world, step by step, with all the means of modern science journalism.
15 What is the point of all this? It is difficult to imagine today what the world will look like ten years after the "introduction" of Unified Physics into our world-spanning science, technology, culture and education. However, we must learn from the mistakes of the past. Einstein's equation (E=mc²) produced the terribly effective atomic bomb, yet it did not introduce new physics. That is why Chernobyl and Fukushima were unavoidable; there is still no working physical basis for nuclear reactors; there is even no definition of energy itself.
16. Therefore, our (mine, yours, and science journalism's in general) most urgent task is: to publicise the knowledge of Unified Physics, and the related issues of Unified Science and Universal Philosophy, as widely as possible to all strata of the world's population, so that no "evil" applications become possible without public scrutiny. Moreover, by explaining the essential interrelationships in Nature in a comprehensible way, the all-important enthusiasm for Nature can be restored to society. I ask you to take this task seriously.

Naturics (combined from the English Natur-e and Phys-ics) is the applied Unified Physics - that is, Naturics includes all past and future applications of the new physics in the natural sciences and humanities, as well as in all possible technologies.

Limit of Physics

O7. There can no longer be a second Einstein

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What is knowledge and how does it come about? If you look for an answer to these questions in reference books, you will learn that knowledge is understanding gained through one's own experience. On the other hand, knowledge is also the state in which one is aware of a certain piece of information. If these two definitions sound too philosophical to you, it might be easier to remember a scholastic definition: Knowledge is something that is learned or experienced and retained in the mind. So the new knowledge means that we have learned or experienced a new piece of information.

Where and how does the new knowledge come about? How does it come to us? Someone we trust provides us with new information verbally or in writing. We believe him and keep this information in our mind. From now on, we just know. Our knowledge has increased, updated.

If we are not particularly lazy, it sometimes happens to us that we ourselves, through our own observation, experience or simply by thinking, create new information that we later pass on to our acquaintances. This also increases our knowledge. We retain things that we have thought up ourselves particularly well in our heads.

Children are thirsty for information. They explore the world around them to know what it is like or how it works. On the other hand, adults have a duty to pass on their knowledge to children. It is only through this that progress is made in the course of the history.

Sometimes, however, there are situations in which we have to brutally curb children's natural spirit of discovery. Let's imagine that one day our child comes to us and announces that he wants to become a new Christopher Columbus and discover the new continents. If we then don't reach for a globe or at least a world map, and explain to the child as gently as possible that his dream is no longer feasible because today all the continents of the earth have already been discovered, walked on and even photographed in detail from space, then we have done a lot wrong in raising children.

It is important to understand that although the tree of knowledge is in itself unlimited in size, it also has branches that are limited in length and can no longer grow. We can probably comfort the disappointed Columbus follower with other goals in life. The consequences of the second example I would like to present here can carry much more weight. The ignorance of the "unrealisability of dreams" in this second example costs humanity a lot of money every year, which is spent on unnecessary scientific research projects.

In this second case, we have to imagine a naïve young person coming to us and proclaiming that he wants to become a new Albert Einstein and discover new laws of Nature. Most (or perhaps almost all) readers will probably wonder at this point what these two dreamers, the New Columbus and the New Einstein, could have in common. Aren't there an infinite number of laws of Nature? Where should there be a limit? Millions of researchers work on their new findings every day and surely discover new laws of Nature in the process, don't they?

Exactly not. Researchers are indeed working, most of them even very hard, but unfortunately there are hardly any new laws of Nature left to be discovered. There are plenty of new natural processes, but no more new laws. There is actually a "globe" in this case too, which clearly shows us that the number of possible laws of Nature is in fact very small, in any case much smaller than we thought. Since I discovered the Unified Family of all physical quantities, this "globe", this "world map" of all physical equations, I know that there can be no other Einstein. No one else will be able to reinvent such an important equation as the famous Einsteinian relation between energy and mass, "E = mc²". I therefore feel obliged to tell all generations of potential new Einsteins about this "world map" of physical equations. It is one thing to waste money. But wasting the intellectual potential of one or even several generations of young people, who should be sent off in search of new "continents" of the laws of Nature that no longer exist, is something we should avoid at all costs.

How long it will take before the scientific community gives me the necessary trust and accepts this new insight as new knowledge, I cannot predict. I suspect it may take a few more years. However, from now on, the readers of this blog have the unique opportunity to overtake the scientific world leaders in the fundamentals of traditional physics. In doing so, no one need simply take my word for it. Every person can read into the contributions of our Unified Science until he can see this "world map globe" of the laws of Nature with his own eyes and describe it in his own words.

Thereby he arrives at his personal new knowledge. After that, he can allow himself to just relax and wait until even the best-paid (and therefore slowest) scientists in the world will follow him. Shall we give it a try? Well, then, let's get to work.