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The Swedish physicist Ulf Danielsson and science
On the contrary to the logical conclusion of many people in history (first and foremost Ludwig Wittgenstein and then Bertrand Russell) that reality can’t be understood rationally, the Swedish physicist Ulf Danielsson is convinced that it can. He’s actually not only convinced, but moreover strongly believes that it can.
By this, Ulf Danielsson moves either only himself or also physics from science into belief. Which is it?
I can tell Ulf Danielsson that if he’s right, then he’s also wrong at the same time, because then reality (just as his belief) is contradictory (and time is also not relative to speed in space). His belief is thus just as contradictory as all other beliefs are.
The problem for a rational understanding of reality is that reality is ambiguous between two orthogonal aspects on it: process and pattern, because orthogonal relationships lack a middle. There is thus no way to simplify several (at least two) understandings of reality into one.
Ulf Danielsson’s conviction (belief) is thus wrong. Reality actually can’t be understood rationally. (Sorry to say.)
The question to scientists is: is it better to drag science into the realm of beliefs in an attempt to save it from being killed by beliefs, or to withhold it’s unique position in between beliefs? The former is actually what killed science in the first place in the ancient Greece.
Source: https://menvall.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/the-swedish-physicist-ulf-danielsson-and-science/
