Comment on the article What No New Particles Means for Physics. Physicists are confronting their “nightmare scenario.” What does the absence of new particles suggest about how nature works? by Natalie Wolchover in Quanta Magazine / August 9, 2016.
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”The medium is the message, McLuhan said. But what is the medium of knowledge of nature? It is not only our medium of communication, but also our medium of observation. In other words, the form of our sensible faculty is implicitly the a priori determined form of all our empirical knowledge.
The physical properties of a telescope or particle accelerator determine a priori all physical realities observable through them. So when an instrument of observation does not offer anything new, it means that he has reached the limits of his own powers of penetration into the mysteries of nature. Physics is not an encyclopaedic science, which only observe and classify objects in nature, but is a hermeneutics of nature, ie, an art to interrogate and interpret the responses of nature.
Physical objects do not exist in and of itself, but they are created as such by our own faculty of imagination. Kant said it his way two hundred years ago.
So if we want to see something new, we must first imagine a different kind of things and then a different way of looking at them.
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The current crisis of modern physics is in fact a crisis of imagination.”
Marcel Chelba – What No New Particles Means for Physics? Comment on the article What No New Particles Means for Physics. Physicists are confronting their “nightmare scenario.” What does the absence of new particles suggest about how nature works? by Natalie Wolchover in Quanta Magazine / August 9, 2016, Kantinomus Verlag, Tübingen, 2023
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