It's shocking to see the lengths that modern man will go to to feed his delusions. Those who believe the nonsense related in this book are like people who refuse to look down stepping off a cliff and concluding that the reason they have fallen is that the matter of which the ground is constituted has mysteriously lost its solidity. The simple fact is that modern physics is not science--because, while it is of practical value, it is not productive of truth in terms of revealing what actually is--nor is it even plausible, as a gander at any page of this book demonstrates. What this book does is show that Aristotle has been right all along (I cannot go into his doctrine here; it's what you were supposed to be learning as part of your university training) and that modern mathematical physics is not competent at anything other than providing a consistent, practical framework for solving problems--in much the same way geometry tells us nothing about the world (since perfect circles, for example, do not actually exist) but is useful for calculating various things.
In one way, I'd like to give the book five stars, since Herbert admirably lays out the findings of modern "science" which have led to so many perfectly intelligent men sacrificing their credibility and common sense on the altar of the idiot god, Scientism, but on the other I can't bring myself to rate conclusions so obviously untrue with anything approaching that perfect score. In other words, as a book merely providing an account of the various stupid things modernists believe, this book is a five-star work, but as a book purporting to provide insight into the actual reality underlying all the math, it's a big zero. Hence, my three star compromise.
Without going too deeply into it, I will provide a hint that I do know what I'm talking about and am not just ranting: for Aristotle, movement in place is not movement along a vector at such-and-such a rate through a series of places. For him, movement is the the actualization of a potency to be in a different place from where one started. While moving from this place to that, one is never actually "in" any place passed through. One is only "in" a place when one is at rest and the potency to be there has been actualized. Consequently, to measure one's position--one's place--at any point along the way, which modern physicists think they are doing, is to to actually consider a moving thing as being at rest in that place. But a moving thing is not at rest, it is moving. Therefore, one can see, if Aristotle is right about the nature of local movement, that the modern physicist is mistaken right at the outset about what he is actually doing, and that the reason he thinks that that thing's position only exists when he is measuring it is because it DOES only exist when he measures it, but artificially, with no relation to the actual underlying reality.
I'm sure that is perfectly impenetrable to most who have brought up on modernist bunkum, but I hope it at least gives sensible readers pause--those people who have been bullied into believing the bunkum out of fear of ridicule, much like the people in the old fable admiring the emperor's new clothes. The fact is that the emperor of modern science is wearing the most gossamer of fabrics and it is he, not they, who looks ridiculous.
As for the book, I recommend it, but only as a compendium of modernist error, which it excels as.
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