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NEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCE type of movement is totally different: they assume stochastical CREATIVE PHYSICS: movement, while I assume well-ordered movement. A BLUEPRINT FOR SURVIVAL After performing all calculations, I come to a new value for the by Professor Robert Pope © 2003 electron's radius of Introduction by Mark Balfour © 2003 ro2 =5.23 - 10% m instead of the old classical electron radius of some 10° metres. Introduction Conclusion he philosophy and art of Robert Pope—Director of the If it is possible to explain all mass by the energy of fields and to Science-Art Research Centre of Australia, Inc. (SARCA)—are regard the particles as sources of fields, then gravitation can be | pointing in a direction which may well usher in a new paradigm understood as a consequence of all other three interactions in the | for present-day scientific thinking. A clearer, brighter and vivify- following way. ing light is effectively bathing the time-worn and tarnished Trojan Electromagnetic, weak and strong interaction can be regarded as | horse of 20th-century mechanism. Its name is Creative Physics. "basic fundamental" interactions which produce fields and, from There is a physics for human survival on this planet—one that these, produce a mass connected to these fields. This mass will | transcends the now outmoded Newtonian/Cartesian deterministic then cause a bending of space-time, according to Einstein's theory | worldview; one that violates the long- held second law of thermo- of relativity, which corresponds to the formation of gravitation. | dynamics and entropy. The life sciences are beginning to realise From this point of view, we can understand gravitation as a conse- | its importance. The worldwide alternative health movement is quence originating from the other "basic fundamental" interac- | embracing its principles and there exists solid evidence enough to tions. So we can regard gravitation as a "subsequent" interaction. validate it in the realm of advanced biophysics. For single elementary particles, the "basic fundamental" interac- As for the status of Robert Pope's art, which stands as a vivid tions dominate compared to the "subsequent" interaction of gravi- | metaphor for Creative Physics principles, the words of author tation. But if very many elementary particles stick together (like | Lawrence Durrell are highly significant: "The classical in art is in hadrons or in atoms or in objects of our everyday life), the | that which marches by intent with the cosmology of the age" ("The "basic fundamental" interactions compensate one another within a | Alexandria Quartet"). very tight space (with fields that produce binding-energy) so that The following paper [reprinted here only in part; Ed.] presents the sum of the "basic fundamental" interactions will have no fur- | Robert Pope's outline of Creative Physics, which is to be presented ther consequence other than keeping objects (or atoms) within | at forthcoming symposiums both in Australia and internationally. their shape. For further information, visit the website http://www.science- On long-distance range, only bending of space-time remains | art.com.au/ms.htm. remarkable, which is important for the motion of the objects, as — Mark Balfour, Director, Metavision Research Consultants known from classical physics. In this sense, the explanation of and author of The Sign of the Serpent — Key to Creative Physics mass by fields makes a connection between gravitation and all the (Prism Press, UK, 1991) other interactions recognisable. oo About the Author: Physics at Cambridge University, Neil Turok, stated on Professor Dr Claus W. Turtur is a physicist, an engineer and a ABC national radio that the ancient Greeks had probably philosopher. He is based at the University of Applied | got it right in the first place with their idea of an infinite universe. Sciences in Braunschweig-Wolfenbittel, Salzdahlumer StraBe The cover feature of the May 2003 issue of Scientific American' 46/48, 38302 Wolfenbittel, Germany, telephone +49 (5331) | advised that enough scientific evidence now exists to demonstrate 939 3412, email C-W.Turtur@FH-wolfenbuettel.de. The full | that the infinite universe is no longer a probability but is a reality. text of this paper is available by emailing the author. Scientific reasoning can now examine the association of the evo- lutionary process within the functioning of an infinite universe. The social impli- cations of this are enormous. During the Golden Age of Athens, the concept of the nous—a whirling force that acted upon primordial particles in QO: the morning of 26 April 2002, the Chair of Mathematical ram’) ce i [ : oe px git /) % Le = ‘ space to form the physical worlds and to — evolve intelligence—became the founda- al, Wea tion stone upon which the Platonic tradi- Wee } L tion of Greek scientific thinking arose. = | ‘ Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Epicurus attempted to fuse ethics into the nous so that humans might avoid extinction from polluting an infinite ethical universal reality. A warning to balance the materialistic = . description of scientific culture with an — § ethical scientific ethos belonging to the CREATIVE PHYSICS: A BLUEPRINT FOR SURVIVAL by Professor Robert Pope © 2003 Introduction by Mark Balfour © 2003 ro2 = 5.23 - 10° m instead of the old classical electron radius of some 10’ metres. a 1 reriee\ cd 2 ae Sa 7 ~ Sees COM dA, t _ he a MP tF pe 44 = NEXUS =a Sy wT: www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2004