XIII Entering Into Kuhnian Incommensurability

Here we turn the old billiard ball, clockwork orange, universe into a kind of mostly invisible fluid, kind of like water, but more transparent & less detectable to our onboard biological systems.

We pull the starter on our rusty imaginations and begin to imagine a wave/fluid system, one accompanied by phase transitions into more solid material - much as water may crystallize into ice or boil away into steam.

A wave/ fluid system which also aligns in a puzzling manner with the periodic table of elements and with nuclear physics and matter formation.

Making use of mental models which serve as transparency over lays.

Transparencies superimposed on transparencies, where wave interference patterns seem to point at a hidden physical dimension which may serve as a foundation for reality.

Wave patterns intersecting with wave patterns in an undulating fashion, interconnecting patterns which don’t hold still very well for measurement, and with math seemingly too complex.

Remembering here that we still live in Thomas Kuhn’s incommensurable time which ends one scientific paradigm and lies before the next paradigm fully arrives.

We live in that period of incommensurable fuzziness which has ended the age of purely classical physics and which is developing as the age of quantum physics comes into focus .

This means we have not yet developed the language and symbols to adequately explain these patterns we dimly perceive as potential foundations of physical reality.

For those who do see them however it does not make them any less real, and seeing them is required before the mathematics and physics may be formally applied and accepted.

Because our human perception is limited when it comes to this quantum theory, we require tools which extend our reach beyond our everyday sensory experience.