Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Plato, Galen and Werner Heisenberg

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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / a. Energy
17540 Energy is that which moves, and is the substance from which everything is made [Heisenberg]
17541 Energy is an unchanging substance, having many forms, and causing all change [Heisenberg]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields
17548 Maxwell introduced real fields, which transferred forces from point to point [Heisenberg]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / d. Quantum mechanics
17533 Radiation interference needs waves, but radiation photoelectric effects needs particles [Heisenberg]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / a. Concept of matter
17532 An atom's stability after collisions needs explaining (which Newton's mechanics can't do) [Heisenberg]
17537 Position is complementary to velocity or momentum, so the whole system is indeterminate [Heisenberg]
17551 It was formerly assumed that electromagnetic waves could not be a reality in themselves [Heisenberg]
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space
17543 So-called 'empty' space is the carrier of geometry and kinematics [Heisenberg]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time
314 Heavenly movements gave us the idea of time, and caused us to inquire about the heavens [Plato]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / a. Beginning of time
1526 Almost everyone except Plato thinks that time could not have been generated [Plato, by Aristotle]
312 Time came into existence with the heavens, so that there will be a time when they can be dissolved [Plato]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / e. Present moment
17552 In relativity the length of the 'present moment' is relative to distance from the observer [Heisenberg]
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
369 If the Earth is spherical and in the centre, it is kept in place by universal symmetry, not by force [Plato]
309 Clearly the world is good, so its maker must have been concerned with the eternal, not with change [Plato]
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 3. The Beginning
148 If the prime origin is destroyed, it will not come into being again out of anything [Plato]
273 Movement is transmitted through everything, and it must have started with self-generated motion [Plato]
308 If the cosmos is an object of perception then it must be continually changing [Plato]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species
13779 The natural offspring of a lion is called a 'lion' (but what about the offspring of a king?) [Plato]