2.6 The Big Picture

I am trying to keep subtopics together.. not easy in a blog.. The idea behind 'The Big Picture' is to give some idea of the scope of the problem of missing information.

I recently discovered the TED "ideas worth sharing" series of 18min Utube presentations.. I would love to do one.. but I am not famous.

Two which caught my attention.. Ken Robinson - 'How Schools Kill Creativity' and David Christian - 'The history of the World in 18 minutes'. The former is revealing of a serious problem in our education 'system' about which, by its very nature, it is oblivious and is doing harm to some.

David Christian's presentation highlights the problem of missing information most conveniently. It can best be described as a fast sweeping panorama of the state of modern scientific 'BELIEF'. He presents certain discoveries as evidence but very little substance. The ear catching thing for me was his introductory video illustrating most admirably 'The Second Law of Thermodynamics'. He even states the problem.. How does COMPLEXITY arise in a system ruled by a principle of increasing disorder (opposite of complexity implied). Well the first observation to be made (he, following modern science) omits any attempt to define complexity.. Allowing assumptions to be made which cannot be tested.

The second outstanding omission is, by modern scientific 'guesswork' about 1000 to 10,000 universes in size.! The statement that the whole universe (one only implied) was all that the primordial singularity comprised. As discussed previously this universe is actually postulated to be an error.. the ashes left over from the actual creation of a system 1000 to 10000 times our universe. Why.. because according to the First Law of Thermodynamics energy conversion to mass must always produce equal amounts of both matter and antimatter (order).. which subsequently collide and annihilate each other in their rush to return to pure energy (disorder).

The sweeping unstated assumption that the universe is an error in the First Law of Thermodynamics is not just monstrous pseudo science of the highest order it is deception.

You may appreciate my problem.. That's just the first few minutes of his presentation!!

I need a whole book..