Time Arrow as Trace of Energy

Produktdetails

Verlag

myMorawa von Dataform Media GmbH

Erschienen

2020

Sprache

English

Seiten

372

Infos

372 Seiten

ISBN

978-3-99093-628-3

Kurztext / Annotation

Today's physics is difficult to access because of its irritating paradoxes. Everyone recognizes that time and life have a direction. Only modern physics claims that nature and its laws are time-neutral, and that time is an illusion. How should one understand effect without cause or how a particle can simultaneously be in two different places? Helmut Tributsch, an experienced natural scientist, investigates the question of whether it is nature itself or science that produces such irrationalities. He arrives at astonishing answers by discovering that physics requires a fundamental energy-driven time orientation, which is based on a Dynamic Energy. The paradoxes disappear and nature becomes rationally understandable. It is science, with its demand for time neutrality, that causes confusion and favours irrational world models. If one corrects these concepts with an energy-driven time arrow, one finds that the universe functions quite differently. Information takes on a major role - from the quantum world to evolution and to the cosmos. When information self-organizes, it creates the phenomenon we call consciousness and mind. Spirit as a consequence of the arrow of time and as a materialistic aspect of nature has the potential to thoroughly change our view of the world. The book contradicts Stephen Hawking, provides the answer for Thomas Nagel, complements Anton Zeilinger, criticizes Yuval Harari and draws a connection to Albert Einstein's world. It distances itself from Richard Dawkins and shows that a nature understood under the arrow of time does not contradict religion. On the one hand, it involves the chance to return the science of physics to a path of rational understanding. Additionally, the amazing realization that the development of mind is a goal of evolution supports all those who seek meaning in our existence.

Helmut Tributsch ist Physiker und Professor für physikalische Chemie. Er lehrte von 1982 bis 2008 am Institut für physikalische und theoretische Chemie der Freien Universität Berlin und war gleichzeitig Leiter der Abteilung Solare Energetik am Helmholtz-Zentrum für Materialien und Energie (früher Hahn-Meitner Institut). Zehn weitere Jahre forschte er an ausländischen Institutionen, wie als Postdoktorand an der Universität von Kalifornien, Berkeley, als Heisenberg-Stipendiat am CNRS in Paris und als Walter Schottky Professor an der Universität Stanford. Seine Hauptinteressen sind die Erforschung nachhaltiger Energie sowie dabei insbesondere die Mechanismen der Biomimetik in Energiesystemen, ein Thema, das er noch bis 2018 an der Fachhochschule Kärnten unterrichtete. Er ist ein erfahrener Wissenschaftler und hat 450 wissenschaftliche Arbeiten und 10 Bücher publiziert, die über 10.000 Mal zitiert wurden. Er lebt auf seinem Bergbauernhof in Friaul, Italien. www.helmut-tributsch.it

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Foreword

I wrote this book because, due to my experience with nature, I became convinced that science, with all its significance and successes in modern life, and with all the fascination it radiates, has come to be on a problematic course. It is a wrong path which, in my opinion, has serious consequences for society, education and the development of bio-analog technologies.

A century ago, within the framework of quantum theory and Relativity Theory, science began to accept irrational scientific ideas and conclusions that are contrary to human experience and to apply them to many natural phenomena. This created an environment of tolerance for "non-understanding". This "non-understanding" now permeates science as a web of established theories that contradict human logic. This overriding of human reason could be a cause that prevents us from logically recognizing upcoming problems and also from successfully reproducing the fascinating energy technologies of biology. It could also distract us from the fact that a convincing idea of nature must also include an explanation of intelligence and consciousness and their evolution. Without a research strategy based on rational principles, we will never properly understand the reality of our universe, nor why evolution has given man an instinct for rationality and confidence in causality.

The reality in today's science tells a different story. The trend towards irrationality is underpinned by an increasing number of abstract and largely opaque physical-mathematical models. More and more incomprehensible theories are currently being proposed to further support the irrational construction of knowledge. Everything in our real environment changes in one direction, following a time arrow. Only the current natural sciences describe and explain the building blocks of nature as time-neutral and design their fundamental laws in such a way that they are reversible in time. Conceptions of non-causality, of effects without causes, of non-locality, of objects simultaneously located in two places, and of an empty space manipulating movement and time are already established. There are others, include the Big Bang scenario about the origin of the universe, mysterious energy appearing from nowhere, an enormous inflation of empty space, and time travel. Dark matter, dark energy and an ever faster expanding universe with galaxies whose flight is approaching the speed of light are currently confusing our ideas. Does nature really behave that strangely, acting as a "block universe", where time is an illusion? Are essential fundamental mechanisms of nature really illogical? Or is it, as I suspect, that science relies on irrational explanations because it does not know any other answers while insisting on a time-neutral world? If this is so, science is really on the wrong path; it is drawing the universe as it does not really exist.

As a boy growing up in a small mountain village in the region called Friuli, located in north-eastern Italy, I learned early that there was little future in cultivating this harsh, rocky land. The alternative was to leave the place and learn a modern profession. Because I was fascinated by nature, I wanted to understand it. That's how I became a natural scientist. Science gave me satisfactory answers to many questions. At the same time, however, it created deep confusion as it also insisted on irrational explanations for relevant fundamental mechanisms.

Is nature really irrational in its approach to such fundamental phenomena as causality? Are space and time really interwoven and manipulated by matter? Can energy and particles actually emerge from nothing? If this fundamental irrationality were part of nature, why don't we experience illogical situations in any of the fantastic technological developments in living nature? There, everything that was discovered and investigated is ultimately logically understandab

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