‘Second color page, Art Bèbè 2099. Lash it to transcend it. Sandeson Gonzaga!’

Bébé says, ‘Don’t you just luv it!’ ©.

Bébé is reading & studying; ‘By light was meant the realm of consciousness or spirit. By darkness was meant the realm of unconsciousness, of dense materiality and blind mechanical forces … what are the two currents in the human psyche? There is the striving towards the light, that is, for greater consciousness. And there is also submission to the powers of unconsciousness, that is, animal ignorance, coarse cruelty, tyranny, failure to perceive. Barrington J. Bayley, The Rod of Light.

Bébé, asks, ‘Animal ignorance, coarse cruelty, tyranny, failure to perceive, how much this reminds of current troubles. Time to transcend!’

‘Out of BAAL, I have called my daughter.’

says, ‘Biologically Assisted Artificial Life (BAAL).’

 ‘Machines of loving grace. Richard Brautigan.’

  ‘All excerpts on this post taken from Subtle is the Lord … The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein, by Abraham Pais.‘

Continued from post made on 5/04/2018.

The first steps are in 1907, as he discovers a simple version of the equivalence principle and understands that matter will bend light and that the spectral lines reaching us from the sun should show a tiny shift toward the red relative to the same spectral lines produced on earth.

During the next three and a half years, his attention focuses on the crisis of phenomenon, the quantum theory, rather than on the less urgent problems of relativity. His serious concentration on general relativity begins after this period in Prague in 1911, where he teaches himself a great deal with the help of model theory. He gives a calculation of the bending of light by the sun. His result is imperfect, since at that time he still believes that space is flat. In the summer of 1912, at the time of his return to Zurich, he makes a fundamental discovery: space is not flat; the geometry of the world is not Euclidean. It  is Riemannian. Ably helped by an old friend, the mathematician Marcel Grossman, he establishes the first links between geometry and gravity.

With his habitual optimism he believes he has solved the fifty-year-old problem of finding a field theory of gravitation. Not until late in 1915 does he fully realize how flawed his theory actually is. At the very same time, Hilbert starts his important work on gravitation. After a few months  of extremely intense work, Einstein presents the final revised version of his theory on November 25, 1915.

After 1915 Einstein continued to examine problems in general relativity. He was the first to give a theory of gravitational waves. He was also the found of general relativity cosmology, the modern theory of the universe at large. Hubble’s discovery that the universe was expanding was made in Einstein’s lifetime. Radio galaxies, quasars, neutron stars, and, perhaps, black holes were found after his death.

These post-Einsteinian observational developments in astronomy largely account for the great resurgence of interest in general relativity in more recent times.

After 1915 Einstein’s activities in the domain of relativity became progressively less concerned with the applications of general relativity than for the sear h for generalizations of that theory. During the early years following the discovery of general relativity , the aim of that search appeared to be highly plausible: according to general relativity the very existence of the gravitational field is inalienably woven into the geometry of the physical world. There was nothing equally compelling about the existence of the existence of the electromagnetic field, at that time the only field other than that of gravity known to exist. Riemannian geometry does not geometrize electromagnetism. Should not one therefore try to invent a more general geometry in which electromagnetism would be just as fundamental as gravitation. If the special theory of relativity had unified electricity and magnetism, and if the general theory had geometrized gravitation, should one not one try nest to unify and geometrize electromagnetism and gravity?

During the 1920’s and 1930’s it became evident that there exist forces other those due to gravitation and electromagnetism. Einstein chose to ignore these although they were not  and are not less fundamental than the two which have been known about longer

Einstein mad the assumption – he called it the heuristic principle – that also in its coupling to matter, light is created or annihilated in discrete parcels of energy.

The light quantum, a parcel of energy, slowly evolved into the photon, a parcel of energy and momentum, a fundamental particle with zero mass and unit spin … Quantum mechanics was born within a few months of the settling of the photon issue … All resistance came to an end with experiments on the scattering of lights by electrons.

Einstein himself never gave up the search for a theory that would incorporate quantum phenomena but would nevertheless satisfy his craving for causality. His vision of a future interplay of relativity and quantum theory in a unified field …

Firstly, I may be permitted to summarize my own views Newtonian causality is gone for good. The synthesis of relativity and quantum theory is incomplete.

‘Follow me and  I will make you fishers of transcendence.’ ©