Hidden Newton

Or, Newton the Alchemist. "Hidden" meaning "not known to general public", because there's a hidden Einstein, a hidden Schroedinger, a hidden Heisenberg, a hidden Planck... These hidden aspects of our great scientific geniuses are actually reflections of taboos long held by the modern scientific community at large since its inception and rise to power, taboos that were introduced to consolidate the "scientific outlook" and make it the rational way of seeing the universe and man's place in it. However, these same taboos became generative of a scientific shadow of shallowness and a dissociation of rationality from deeper aspects of human beingness, thus handing over the esoteric (hidden, profound) to the overtly religious (as if they knew what to do with it), and unleashing the scientistic impulse to assail and ultimately debauch both science and rationality.



As proposed (or made clear) in this BBC documentary, the alchemical Newton was hidden on purpose, and it's more than we can say about the arrogant narrow-mindedness of many contemporary scientific minds, who have been brought up and educated in the climate of "hidden identities", where they were assured and assuaged there's no such thing as a hidden (or interior, or unquantifiable) reality, for which the measurement and objective evaluation simply won't do, and were never asked nor encouraged to inquire into the nature of that which remains immeasurable. Thus, they learned early on to strategically postpone their own awareness, "We are ten years from answering the most difficult question, but answer it we will...", acting somewhat like mice from Adams' "H2G2" who knew the answer, but needed more time to "calculate the question".

Just as religion has accepted to impersonate its own caricature offered by science, so has science often reduced itself to a lame denial of interiority on one hand, and radical mystery on the other.

Resource: Quantum Questions, what else.

Hat tip to to WH.