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NEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCE workings of an infinite universe was given in ancient Greek times in order to prevent the destruction of civilisation at the hands of an unbalanced materialistic science. Within Newton's unpublished writings, purchased in recent times from Sotheby's, the fundamental infinite universal physics principles upholding the balancing Greek Science for Ethical Ends was referred to by Sir Isaac Newton as, and I quote from the jour- nal Nature,’ "a more profound natural philosophy to balance the mechanical description of the universe". From within the Platonic tradition of the ancient Greek world- view, the warning about the destruction of civilisation was a sim- plistic one. Plato's destructive evil within the atom, translated by the Roman philosopher Plotinus in the third century AD as unformed matter capable of destroying civilisation,’ became a rea- sonable warning about the anti-life properties of nuclear weaponry or radioactive decay. The transition from the simplistic scientific theory to the com- lex, which leads to the discovery of such specific novel phenome- na, satisfies the criteria needed to classify the simplistic Greek warning as scientific. Over two thousand years later, this same warning is being redelivered to us in more explicit detail. The god of Plato's chaos hysics became Diabolis, the destroyer of universes, who creates disorder from order and, in modern times, the second law of thermodynamics... The ancient Greek science to balance the mechanical description of the universe was called the Science for Ethical Ends. This was ased upon a logic derived from geometrical ratios that associated the evolutionary process to the workings of an infinite universe. This concept is inconceivable within the prevailing 20th-century worldview because it refutes the governing second law of thermo- dynamics. Universities around the world today subject science students to maintaining integrity to a worldview that is not only no longer irrefutable but scientifically obsolete. Sir Arthur Eddington pointed out last century that any attempt to refute the second law of thermodynamics must result in a deeply humiliating experience. Einstein and the framers of the 20th century worldview referred to the second law as the "premier law of universal physics".* To avoid such humiliation today, it is necessary to explain that many scientists, such as Max Planck Institute astrophysicist Peter Kafka, refer to the second law of thermodynamics as being useless and diabolical.’ Dr Adolph Smith, a former professor of life physics at NASA, wrote in his preface to our research centre's book, The Engineering of Global Democracy, and I quote, "Happily, by this time [1999] we know that the second law of thermodynamics has its limitations and is certainly not true for the universe as a whole". Stanford University cosmologist Andrei Linde is now one of many who hold that the universe is an infinitely expanding fractal expression, and biologists around the world are associating the liv- ing process to the workings of such an infinite universal model.’ It is now scientifically acceptable once again to associate the evolutionary process with the workings of an infinite universe. At a time when our universities are seeking sustainable biological growth and development policies to support the growth and devel- opment of a civilisation that demands an even more intimate asso- ciation with the dictates of the second law, it becomes immoral to continue to prohibit the original association of the living process with infinity by calling it "inconceivable". Our own research papers, published during the 1980s by Italy's scientific journal, // Nuovo Cimento,‘ and reprinted from the world literature in 1990 by IEEE in Washington, became an important physics milestone in which "The authors show for the first time via computer simulation that new physics laws govern biological growth and development. Seashells do not appear to grow normally in our Euclidian or Minkowskian space-time, but require a structurally more general geometry".’ The lethal consequences of continuing to generate human sur- vival simulations by using the geometrical logic supporting the 20th-century worldview is also pointed out in the multimillion-dol- lar research program about fractal geometry which I refer to later. The absolute importance of this issue is now beyond doubt. However, because no scientific argument on this ue was tolerated last century, it becomes necessary to introduce it today via philosophy rather than through any traditional scientific presentation... oo Editor's Note: For a copy of the complete paper including references, visit website http://www.science-art.com.au/blueprint.pdf for a free PDF file, or send a large SSAE to Robert Pope at Science-Art Research Centre Australia, Uki NSW 2484, Australia, or con- tact the author by email at pope@science-art.com.au. Endnotes 1. Tegmark, Max, "Parallel Universes", Scientific American, May 2003, http://www.sciam.com, and http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~max/multiverse.html 2. Gregory, Richard L., "Alchemy of Matter and of Mind", Nature 342(30)473, (November 1989) 3. Archer-Hind, R.D., The Phaedo of Plato, Ayev, Salem, NH, 1988, p. 92 (first published by Macmillan, London, 1883); also David T. Runia, Philo of Alexandria on The Timaeus of Plato, Brill, Leiden, 1986, p. 452 4. Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley, in The Nature of the Physical World, Maximilian, New York, 1948, p. 74; Albert Einstein, quot- ed in M.J. Klein, "Thermodynamics in Einstein's Universe", Science 157:509 (1967) 5. Kafka, Peter, "Six Essays on the Principle of Creation and the Global Acceleration Crisis" (1976-1994), "4. The Uselessness of the Second Law", p. 54, http://www.equilibrismus.de/en/topics/ general/pk-six_essays.pdf 6. Smith, Dr Adolph, in Preface to Franz Jacobsen, The Engineering of Global Democracy, Science-Art Research Centre of Australia, 1999 (ISBN 0-9586640-8-0). 7. Linde, Andrei, "The Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe", Scientific American 271(5):58-55 (November 1994) 8. Illert, Chris, The Science—Art Centre, "Formulation and Solution of the Classical Seashell Problem: I", "Seashell Geometry: II", // Nuovo Cimento (1987), and "Formulation and Solution of the Classical Seashell Problem II. Tubular Three- Dimensional Seashell Surfaces I", J/ Nuovo Cimento (1990), selected for reprinting in SPIE Milestone Series, vol. MS 15, selected papers on Natural Optical Activity, pp. 12-23 and 24-33, section one, "Chirality and Optical Activity" (1990) 9. Illert, C. and Santilli, R M., Foundations of Theoretical Conchology, Istituto per la Ricerca di Base, Italy, and Institute for Basic Research, Florida, 1995, 2nd edition (ISBN 0-911767-91-6) NEXUS = 45 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2004 www.nexusmagazine.com