Science, technology and the art - Addendum 2

“Everything determinate must be measured – and everything indeterminate must be made quantifiable.” Researchers have been trying to grasp reality according to what he said by measuring, weighing and calculating . With great success! They not only amassed an incredible amount of knowledge, they actually created a new reality with the help of technology. Intoxicated by their triumphs, the ESSENTIAL remained unheeded: Everything that could not be measured was simply factored out . Everything was reduced to either physics or chemistry – human beings finally also. Everything that differentiated human beings from inert matter was simply detached from them. The majority of natural phenomena are however of a non-mechanical nature. Our sensory perceptions – hearing, smelling, taste, sense of colours and warmth, our feelings, fears, sentiments like love, awe, humility, our individual problems, our spirit and our conscience – everything that cannot be quantified by physics, was left behind. Because all of this is really “illogical”, ego “not reasonable”, “not scientific” and therefore less real or even “unreal”. A professor for theoretical physics in Vienna, Professor Herbert Pietschmann , also spoke out against the pauperisation of our lives in his book “ The End of the Scientific Age ” (Zsolnay-Verlag). He also complains that his colleagues created a simplified model of reality and that they now think that this one-sided image is the reality. But what have they done to the plethora of natural phenomena that cannot be grasped mathematically? Pietschmann completes Galileo Galilei’s phrase with: “…and what cannot be quantified, denied! ” The supernatural is therefore also denied. The natural sciences have rendered our antennas to the hereafter useless and exiled modern man to the torture chamber of spiritual isolation . The emptiness of man existence consequently ends up in nothingness, respectively in psychosomatics . The German physicist C. F. von Weizsäcker made the comment that this is our punishment for having elevated the natural sciences to the “controlling religion of our times”. The astronomer Johannes Kepler demanded that scientific thought processes should not get in the way of the “soul’s wellbeing”. Other eminent scientists have also acknowledged the limits of their own abilities to comprehend. So the mathematician Blaise Pascal : “Everything that can be perceived neither shows a complete absence nor an apparent presence of the divine, but certainly the presence of God hiding behind it. Everything bears his hallmark.” The nuclear physicist Max Planck was certain that nobody would suggest that he was a dreamer when he ascertained: “There is no physical matter as such! All physical matter develops and exists through one force. We must assume that there is a conscious, intelligent spirit behind this force. But as a single spirit cannot exist on its own, we must compellingly assume the existence of spirit entities. The atom opens mankind the door to the lost and forgotten world of the spirit!” Does mathematics hide in Mother Nature? This question must be answered with a clear “yes, everywhere” Einstein said: “The actual creative principles lie in mathematics”. Example: The golden ratio (lat: proportio divina). Wherever pentagrams or spiral formations appear in nature the principle of the golden ratio plays a part. One should think of ivy leaves or bellflowers as well as pinecones. The arrangement of the pinecone’s scales promotes the utilisation of the light that falls upon it. Another example: Natural growth is called exponential function . The next question