Stephen Jerik

Prowling An Uncharted Desert Stephen Jerik

The world was a strange place and trying to understand it was no easy task. Physicists loved mathematics, so they built special rooms and buildings specifically designed to showcase these ideas. The mathematical objects they fabricated created mathematical patterns in the phenomena they produced, but unwittingly this approach only led them into an artificial realm of arbitrary definitions and unrealistic geometrical constructions-a conceptual universe that was very different from the real world. Physicists quickly found themselves trapped in a dead end of abstract fantasies, spouting ideas that made no sense in terms of what actually existed. Here is the story of one man's quest for the truth. Not the empty and vacuous truths of symbols bound together in equations, but the substantial truths of the real world. Only one path could possibly lead to this truth-embracing the reality of the world he lived in-so he struck out into the desert, alone with his dog, to gain a deeper understanding of this miraculous place he called home. Four centuries ago, Galileo confronted a powerful establishment that had become narrow-minded and dogmatic, and challenged its adherents to look through his telescope at a reality which directly contradicted their most fundamental beliefs. The revolutionary thinkers that Galileo inspired have now become the establishment, entrenched in their own limited perspectives, locked in a world view that has become outdated and obsolete. The time has come for another revolution. As the true character of the universe unfolds before us, we see a reality that contradicts the most basic tenets of the scientific method and reveals the utter folly of mathematical thinking.