The complementarity principle which admits
the wave-particle dualism, so as to attain a unified understanding
of the wave and quantum logics, reflects an unsatisfactory condition
of contemporary science, despite the connection established by
Heisenberg with the uncertainty principle. Complementarity cannot
be denied because it is experimentally validated, but it is sure
to conceive a more complex truth and so it can lead us to the
profundities of the material world. Neither the wave nor the quantum
are ultimate realities with Heisenberg. The question is not to
rule out complementarity from its seat, where it can be observed.
Instead, we have to grasp and explain it, and once we have done
so, science could be satisfactory.
5. In the ring or cycle of the existence,
which consists of profundities - the quantum world - the macroscopic
world and the subject - and profundities again, the profundities
may be outside the space-time relation and have their seat in
Orthoexistence, as results from the exertions of quantum physics
and from the philosophical experiment of the subject. However,
the subject, the human being and his possible informaterial relation
to the orthoexistence are not that clear. Referring to Heisenberg's
view, it is sufficient to say that there is no abstract mathematical
idea in orthoexistence to be the fundamental of the world.
A basic information is however inscribed into the informatter
in orthoexistence. So the fundamental of the world is in a way
an informational structure.
The properties of the subject appear to be
essential in these informational determinations. However, we shall
not deal now with the part of the cycle connecting the subject
to orthoexistence via the informatter. We shall assume
the informational structure in informatter as given, without defining
its character here. We shall only say that it can be partly mathematical
and partly in a static state, more likely correlated as form with
the mental state of the subject. The subject is here understood
rather as the society of subjects which could act informationally
and, if possible, new material devices under social control which
could act in the same way.
The profound "energy" in orthoexistence,
which has been referred to as energymatter, can receive,
and combine with, the informatter bearing informational
structures. It is in this way alone that it can turn into space,
substance or particles. Assuming that space, actually space quanta,
originate in energymatter and informatter proves that the energymatter
is not the energy as known today. Within the space quantum there
is no space. The minimum size in our universe, determined by the
space quantum, is most likely a universal constant. Within this space quantum,
instead of space,we find fundamental principles, i.e. energymatter and
informatter.Energymatter and the informationally structured informatter are
likewise to be found in any elementary particle.
There is no basic distinction between the
internal structure of the elementary particle and that of the
space quantum. Space becomes continuous in relation to the subject,
because the subject interprets the space with the aid of the integrating
activity of the brain in which the informatter is involved. The
continuum is found via the informatter in the depths of
the discontinuum and of the quantum. It turns into discontinuum
via the quantum world and reverts to the continuum via
the subject, which is understood as a material device.
In the general theory of relativity, the whole
universe, with the matter and its gravity fields, reduces to the
properties of a geometric space having a non-Euclidean structure.
There is a fundamental relation between space and the material
substance. This relation indicates that they are generated from
a common source.
How are we to understand the disappearance
and the emergence of a particle ? Thus, for instance, what is
actually going on in the electron-positron interaction ? We know
that these two particles cancel each other and generate photons.
The change of these particles into others equally means in our
view a change in their inner informational structure. The electric
charge could be related to such an informational structure, and
its disappearance means the replacement of this structure by another.
During the electron-positron interaction,
the energymatter-informatter connection is somewhat shattered.
However, in compliance with this interaction, the result is just
the replacement of one informational archetype by another.
There must however exist a time interval during
which there exists no electron, no positron or light quanta. This
is the interaction time. However, what does this time mean and
what goes on within its span ? Within it, time must no longer
exist (provided the particles are really elementary) for the change
operations for informational archetypes develop in orthoexistence,
therefore apart from space and time. However, this time in the
interaction interval might become meaningful if space quanta could
be generated during the intermediate stage between electron-positron
and the light quanta. The existence of space quanta in time quanta
would account for a somewhat deeper space-time connection, as
it is observed to be reflected in the continuum with which the
theory of relativity works.
Any continuum in the space-time world appears
thus as a discontinuum integration, admitted by a dimensionless
continuum like the informatter of the subject. This explains why
we can imagine dimensionless forms in the informatter, for space
is alien to orthoexistence. The informatter itself is most likely
familiar with states like the psychological continuum, which is
likewise dimensionless.
This aspect of the informatter explains Plato's
illuminated intuition and Heisenberg's conviction that Plato was
at least partially right. However, with both Plato and Heisenberg,
these structures have no support; they are pure ideas, abstract
forms with their own lives, without any explanation. The author's
view is that these structures are inscribed into one of the prime
material substance of the world and that this substance may likewise
account for the integrating activity of the central nervous system
in man and in animal, i.e. the geometrical, temporal and psychological
continuating activity.
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