On Feb 6, 2009, at 9:19 AM, Philip Pilkington wrote:
>
> ...Its long been recognised that mathematical theory, due to its
> very nature,tends to become a language operating without reference
> to reality. I remember the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan went as far
> as to compare maths to chronic psychotic variants of mental illness,
> such as paranoid schizophrenia, insofar as both construct their own
> reality without reference to externalises. They both do this in a
> very specific way; they begin with some attempt to impose their
> framework onto some piece of empirical data; then they move onto
> building a bigger "model", taking progressively more and more
> "assumption" on board; finally they review the data with reference
> to the newly constructed "model" and purge any elements which don't
> fit...
A splendid description of current cosmological/astrophysical dogma, a "mathematical" construct piling assumption upon assumption (big bang, dark matter, dark energy, gravitational lensing, etc., etc.), and purging any elements (quantized redshifts, structural linkages between galaxies, etc.) which don't fit.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos