Stephen Hawking lamented the formal division of philosophy and physics during the 19th and 20th centuries, that it should never have happened. Informally, of course, it has never happened as such physicists as Einstein and Hawking tend heavily to also being philosophers within and of their own field of endeavor. So, too, the other way around for such philosophers as Bertrand Russell. And, inclusively, such famous historians as Will Durant and others like him throughout history getting involved heavily into the gamut of general physics, cosmologies, and philosophies.
One big and obvious mistake made, as I see it, is the attempt during the 19th and 20th centuries, on into the 21st century, to straighten out the arrow of space and time, doing away with a long, long, history of the rounded, and rounding, wheel (including the wheels within wheels, and wheels paralleling) of space and time. Doing away with the bend of the wheel regarding seemingly everything of space and time but the bends and vortices of gravity. Thus, no straight arrows to the universe except for one, the one up and out and down and in into infinity and infinities. Hawking once wrote of the possibility of the constant migration of life from the death zones of universe to the ever new born "life zones" of universe in the rounding wheel and wheels of universes, thus there being a fundamental 'life force' to the universe to go along with the other fundamental forces. He had a tendency toward optimism in the possibilities, it seemed to me, always mixing with an equal but opposite tendency toward dark pessimism.
It is as easy for me to envision the wheel turning, and the wheels within wheels and wheels paralleling wheels, turning, all the arrows either bending to gravity or being bent by gravity, as it is for others to envision the exact opposite, there being no historically related wheel, no wheels, turning of space and time.
If there is no infinity, no infinities infinite and infinitesimal, actually one and the same barring finite, the finite wheels might adhere to finite and all stop turning, but the problem the adherents of nothing but finites existing is there is infinity, and infinities, existing (even those infinities within all finites . . . finite always being local relative, infinity the nonlocal, non-relative, absolute always).
One big and obvious mistake made, as I see it, is the attempt during the 19th and 20th centuries, on into the 21st century, to straighten out the arrow of space and time, doing away with a long, long, history of the rounded, and rounding, wheel (including the wheels within wheels, and wheels paralleling) of space and time. Doing away with the bend of the wheel regarding seemingly everything of space and time but the bends and vortices of gravity. Thus, no straight arrows to the universe except for one, the one up and out and down and in into infinity and infinities. Hawking once wrote of the possibility of the constant migration of life from the death zones of universe to the ever new born "life zones" of universe in the rounding wheel and wheels of universes, thus there being a fundamental 'life force' to the universe to go along with the other fundamental forces. He had a tendency toward optimism in the possibilities, it seemed to me, always mixing with an equal but opposite tendency toward dark pessimism.
It is as easy for me to envision the wheel turning, and the wheels within wheels and wheels paralleling wheels, turning, all the arrows either bending to gravity or being bent by gravity, as it is for others to envision the exact opposite, there being no historically related wheel, no wheels, turning of space and time.
If there is no infinity, no infinities infinite and infinitesimal, actually one and the same barring finite, the finite wheels might adhere to finite and all stop turning, but the problem the adherents of nothing but finites existing is there is infinity, and infinities, existing (even those infinities within all finites . . . finite always being local relative, infinity the nonlocal, non-relative, absolute always).
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