Uncertain certainty expanded
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle can be explained thus:
1.if it is possible to locate precisely a moving object at a given moment,
2. it is no longer possible to know its exact speed at this moment.
Inversely,
If one can
specify the speed of a moving object at a given moment,
then it will be impossible to
know its exact location.
3. Certainly it is a matter of intra-atomic phenomena.
The fact
of observing the location of the electron—or at least the
probability of its position—signifies an action in regard to it,
which modifies it or changes its course.
Thus, the fact of
observing the phenomenon modifies its nature, so that, at a
given moment, only one of the two elements can be known
exactly:
either
its location
or
its speed
We can later "group"
these data, separately observed, in order to
ignore acknowledge the
simultaneous phenomenon
without really knowing it
at all
Or acknowledge ING it
or
its
processes
Today this uncertainty principle plays THE leading role in
scientific thought.
THE faith that we placed in mechanistic
determinism in the last century has given way to
a doubt
that
opens
the door to philosophy.
Heisenberg also plays a truly "iconoclastic" role in microphysics.
He rejects all imagination, and hence the assumption
that electrons possibly move
circumferentially, in the manner
of planets, around a nucleus or sun
(a point: as Bohr acknowledged)
when it is known for certain only
that there are "layers" with
varying potentials.
The "uncertainty principle," does not enable us to
locate
the electron when it is moving at full speed;
thus, we can
know
its location
only as
a probability.
Heisenberg excludes ~ the aspect that is in fact unknowable and is satisfied with:
the
knowable aspect of
the differences
in energy
potentials
In
defining the atom—or, more exactly, its nature—thus:
solely
by the numbers representing these energetic values
of
the
various electronic "layers" or stages,
he counters proposes for
a concrete,
assumed image
"matrix image"
theoretically
corresponding to the some observable fact
But let us continue this brief enumeration of a few
principles, basic points of the new thought,
in order to render the
conclusion that can be drawn from it
more comprehensible.
Our old laws no longer apply to the atom — that is,
the constituent
of matter.
They, the old laws, remain valid for matter, but in the
atom,
for example, Newtonian gravitation no longer plays a
part:
it is the electro~magnetic effects that come into play.
This
is a fact, but one that needs to be studied,
for we are still confronted
with the unknown that the "affinities"
the "differences
in energy
potentials
represent.
On
the other hand, the chemistry of Lavoisier is happily dead,
since we now know that matter is constantly vanishing into
energy
and that energy ceaselessly creates matter through
transmutation into isotopes.
Carbon-14 (¹⁴C): This is a radioactive isotope,
with a half-life of about 5,730 years.
It is present in the atmosphere in trace amounts
and is continuously produced
by the interaction of cosmic rays with nitrogen atoms
We know that in the upper
atmosphere nitrogen is transmuted into an isotope of carbon,
which then "nourishes" all vegetation—a fact that throws (or
will throw) a curious light on to the "vital" phenomena on the
earth's surface.
Today we know something that people in the nineteenth century thought was no longer to be dreaded: we know that all
our knowledge must be revised. It is quite certain that a new
world has been revealed to the human spirit: but above all, it
must be noted that new faculties of the intelligence are
developing, and it is by this means that science can now penetrate further into the mystery true nature of Nature.
We are no longer afraid to observe that a simple ray of
light, reflected by a surface,
is itself modified by modifying
something
in the atomic nature of this reflecting plane.
The new Chemistry, to which Physics has increasing relevance, is trying to find its way and, through hypotheses which
are often quite strange, attempt to explain the combinations of
atoms.
We observe the same upheaval in Biology: Darwin's
evolutionism cannot be corroborated; Lamarck's transformism, later enlarged upon by Haekel, is not proven; the
doctrine of "genes" runs up against mutations.
In truth, everywhere, in an impassioned burst, people are
"seeking," while transposing the data onto a subtler level than that
of
the arrogant, materialistic era of the previous century.
People are seeking everywhere except in the teaching of the past,
where, in my opinion,
is found the key,
or at least the indication
that can lead us towards
the key of traditionalism,
in
order to guide the new thought.
Since this study has the symbol and the symbolic as its
theme, one might be surprised to find questions concerning
physics summarized here, questions with which philologists,
who at present form the principle practitioners of Egyptology,
usually do not concern themselves. But this superficial exposition of the present situation of the research in a pure science
should make it clear that we are dealing not merely with a
question of a new position of the seeker vis-a-vis experiment,
but, above all, with a new state of thought, a new opening up
of intelligence, which can be interpreted more or less in the
following manner:
the simultaneity of opposite states
aka compliments
constitutes the phenomenon .:.
Up until now, because of
our objective position before this phenomenon, we have viewed
it by splitting these two component states, in what I call
"cerebral dualization," and it is on this "exotericism" that we
built our purely analytical science; we would then call synthesis the "patching together" of elements isolated by analysis.4
Fig. 3. Seth, Master of the South, and Horus, Master of the North,
the perpetual antagonists. Both of their heads emerge from a single
body that stands on two horizontal bows evoking the energy potential
that can make manifest the two inverse forces through the stimulation
of the passage of Re.
Thus it can be observed that there are at most seven
"electronic layers" around the "atomic proton",
recalling the seven~fold
planetary system and
its metallic correspondences,
the
musical scale,
colors,
etc.
Let us add to this the seven fundamental constants:
e, charge of the electron;
m, mass of the
electron;
M, mass of the proton;
h, Planck's constant;
c, speed
of light;
g, constant of gravitation;
cosmic constant.
Now, it is the "constant" of which Henri Poincare had a
presentiment and which was determined by Professor Max
Planck, that plays a leading role, especially in the discoveries
of Louis de Broglie.
Planck's constant (h) is,
in brief,
an
invariable ratio between the Energy (E)
of a photon
and the
duration (d)
of its vibration,
such that
E x d = h,
whatever
the
wave or
the color of the light is,
or the wave of any other
radiation.2
2 x 8 X 3 x 9 = 432
16 x 27 = 432
432 x 432 = 186,624
The Planck constant, or Planck's constant, denoted by , is a fundamental physical constant of foundational importance in quantum mechanics: a photon's energy is equal to its frequency multiplied by the Planck constant, and a particle's momentum is equal to the wavenumber of the associated matter wave
By designating the inverse of the duration, that is,
the frequency, from we get E = , and is the quantum of Energy, that is, the smallest quantity of Energy whose
multiples constitute the whole. If E diminishes, d increases,
and vice versa.
This "quantity" of Energy is the current basis
for all reasoning in microphysics. This theory of the Quanta of
Energy, broadened into the principle of the quantum of action,
later worked on by Einstein and Bohr, is one of the finest
"illuminations" of the scientific spirit of the times.
Then,
founded on these bases, it is certainly the discovery of Louis
de Broglie,3
along with that of Heisenberg, that most disturbs
the complacency of the "mechanistic" scientists,
since the
study of light shows
the simultaneous existence of two contradictory
states:
the granular character in the continuity of a wave;
that is,
the photon, that looks like an isolated quantity,
appearing in a
continuous function of the wave
—the discontinuous within the
continuous.
It is this simultaneity—
that "cerebral" intelligence cannot grasp,
but the existence of which is shown by
experiment—
that brings about what the physicist Werner
Heisenberg calls
the "Uncertainty Principle,"
which I shall
translate here, psychologically, as
the "Present Moment."
2. These waves have lengths ranging from 50 kilometers to 1/100,000,000 millimeter. Beyond this are the y rays. 3. Cf. Louis de Broglie, Lumiere et matiere; La physique nouvelle des quanta, (Paris: Flammarion, 1925
sol
{[2^4 ] x [3^3]}
{16 x 27}
432
X
432
=
186 624
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