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There is an implied statement that the beliefs are necessary in order to allow the world to exist. We are told that we must believe in Science otherwise there will be a lot of horrible, terrible consequences. Our belief in science compels us to spend billions on science experiments that are intended to prove the existence of a God particle. Scientists aren't religious and don't believe in God, but nowadays those same scientists believe in the existence of a "'science God" particle. We all are required to believe in a God particle, too.
We are told that our lack of belief in the God particle will result in some type of terrible, horrible catastrophe.
A good look into history will show us where the idea of this catastrophic outcome could have emerged amongst wandering tribes of cavemen and cavewomen whom were leading a nomadic existence after they left their caves forever and came to settle on the banks of a fish-filled stream. Fishing was good for awhile until the fish learned to avoid the riverbank where the cavemen would come to catch fish. One enterprising caveman "C" began to float around on a hollow log and became more successful in catching fish.
Caveman "C" was fat and successful for awhile until he demonstrated the details of his fishing prowess to the rest of the tribe. The tribal shaman demanded that he should stop floating on a log immediately because no one had done this before and there could be a lot of horrible, terrible consequences. Next winter sure enough the stream turned into a raging flood, several cavemen and cavewomen lost their lives in the flood, and the shaman decided that caveman "C" was at fault because caveman "C" had broken the river somehow by using it for flotation and navigation.
Bad things happen, people get hurt, and there is a tendency to find a scapegoat to take the blame. The shaman and the cave people felt justified in putting caveman "C" to death in retaliation for his crime of breaking the river. Everyone agreed to never float anything on the river ever again. Therefore everyone in the tribe became safe because the killing of caveman "C" was to make sure that caveman "C" could not cause any more flooding.
Years went by before another flood happened again. As the tribesmen were asking who is to blame for this flood? Who broke the river this time? The shaman was observing the river and happened to see a log float downstream. Then another log floated past the shaman's dry feet. At that point the shaman realized that caveman "C" hadn't broken the river because the river could not be broken.
Tribesmen demanded justice. Someone must be held responsible. Someone must be stopped from doing those things that cause terrible, horrible consequences. Even so, the shaman came to realize that the idea of putting caveman "C" to death was a wrongful idea. The horrible, terrible consequences were a result of natural causes that would have happened anyway, even if caveman "C" hadn't floated on the river.
Thousands of years went by, and the wandering tribe of cavemen and cavewomen eventually settled down and became a civilization. During the golden age of enlightenment (thousands of years ago). everyone was required to believe that the planet was flat, and the sun was borne from infinitely far away in the east, across the sky in a winged chariot drawn by a flying horse and then the sun, chariot, and flying horse went infinitely far away to the west. During the golden age of enlightenment everyone was required to perform certain rituals in the belief that otherwise there would be the horrible, terrible consequences, such as a fear that the sun would go infinitely far away and never come back.
Somehow the very idea of not believing in the rituals could "break the sun" or "make the sun go away" in the same manner that the actions of caveman "C" had somehow broken the river. Instead of suffering consequences for making actions in the real world, general suffering could be caused by someone else's lack of belief. As if the act of failing to believe certain things had replaced actual actions in the possibility to break the sun or break the river. A certain belief, or lack of belief, was thought to enable or directly cause a bunch of terrible, horrible consequences. The people who lived during the golden age of enlightenment felt justified in putting someone to death in retaliation for thinking "wrongful thoughts" that could cause horrible, terrible consequences.
About that same time a northman named Plow had learned to smelt metal, and he invented a device that bears his name. He plowed fields and planted grain. Plow got all of his work done early and had some free time, as compared with those people who lived farther south during the golden age of enlightenment who spent much of their time scrabbling around on the ground looking for food. Plow could walk upright during those extra hours and he began to use his spare time to travel from village to village search of a suitable mate.
Plow wandered farther and farther north because that is where the tough people lived. Plow eventually came to a summer place near the Arctic Circle. From this rather cold vantage point, Plow could see the sun circle around in the sky during a twenty-four hour period. Plow could see with his own eyes that the sun never goes away. After observing this phenomenon, Plow did no longer believe that the sun went away after sunset. He believed that the sun was there all the time. Plow thought wrongful thoughts about the sun. Nothing bad happened as a result of "not believing in science", the planet didn't tilt and Plow didn't fall off the planet. He didn't find a suitable mate, either. Plow realized that he had gone farther north than a mate could live.
Plow's " wrongful thoughts " had seemed to have no consequences. Until years later when Plow wandered south in search of a suitable mate. He came upon the primitive cavemen and cavewomen living in "civilization" during the golden age of enlightenment. Plow explained to those who lived during the golden age of enlightenment that he, Plow, didn't believe in the chariot and didn't believe in the flying horse. After much hullabaloo that night, after the sun had gone infinitely far away, Plow was being prepared for being burned at the stake because his wrongful thoughts had possibly broken the sun. The villagers believed that the sun wouldn't rise again the next day unless everyone in the village would believe properly. Plow was asked if he had any last words. The shaman of the golden age of enlightenment had divined that the sun had been broken by Plow's wrongful thoughts and would never rise again. Plow replied to the shaman that a small delay of several hours would allow the sun to reappear.
The shaman of the golden age of enlightenment had divined that the sun had been broken by Plow's wrongful thoughts and would never rise again. The shaman insisted that any wrongful thought must be punished immediately. Plow replied that the wrongful thought had occurred to him years before and there had been no consequences for all those years gone by already.
The shaman of the golden age of enlightenment decided that there wasn't much harm in waiting a few more hours because the world was going to end anyway, and also because Plow was fat. Fat meant success in those days and the fact that Plow was fat had become the first reason why Plow had been respected and accepted in the shaman's village. That and the fact Plow had announced himself as an eligible bachelor looking for a suitable mate. Although the bonfire was rising at his feet, Plow was set free, and the villagers decided to roast a small pig in the bonfire's embers.
The next morning the sun rose as usual. At that point the shaman realized that Plow hadn't broken the sun because the sun could not be broken.
Plow tried to be a good citizen of the village. He showed the villagers how to tend and plow a field rather than scrabbling about on all fours all day. He sang songs. He told stories. Even so, the villagers were waiting for the flat planet to tilt because of Plow's wrongful thoughts and then there would be terrible, horrible consequences maybe. Plow lived in the village for a few years because he felt that a suitable mate could be nearby. It was a strong feeling. Eventually and after only two years of following Plow's methods of farming, the villagers discovered that they had something new: Spare time. The villagers were happy with their newfound spare time and found ways to fill the spare time with art, music, and mischief.
Plow learned about the villager's superstitions and did his best to not upset the villagers with his own disbelief in the folklore. He joined the villagers in their rituals and chants, even though Plow knew that the sun would rise again the next day no matter what anyone did or didn't do in the village. Eventually the shaman of the golden age of enlightenment asked Plow, how did he know that the sun would rise again? That is, how did Plow know that the sun would return again from infinitely far away? Plow replied that the sun never goes away. Plow related his experience about being on the Arctic Circle and seeing with his own eyes that the sun circles around in the sky and never goes away. When the villagers asked him how this could be? Plow replied that the planed was round and the sun circled around the planet.
The villagers feared that this meant that they, the villagers, would soon suffer the terrible, horrible consequences of Plows wrongful thoughts. The villagers decided that this meant that they, the villagers, would soon fall off of the planet which had magically changed from flat to round because of Plow's beliefs. Since Plow stated his beliefs out loud, the villagers thought that was enough to cause reality to become different.
The shaman of the golden age of enlightenment had divined that the planet had been broken by Plow's wrongful thoughts and everyone would fall off the planet toward the God particle. Plow soon found himself being burned at the stake, again. The shaman insisted that any wrongful thought must be punished immediately. Plow replied that the wrongful thought had occurred to him years before and there had been no consequences.
Long story short, the villagers roasted a deer that time. Though the villagers might reserve their right to burn Plow at the stake after sunset the next day, and everyone was very nervous while waiting for the imaginary catastrophe, no one fell off of the round planet. Eventually, Plow was set free. Even so, the villagers were waiting to fall off of the round planet one day or another because of Plow's wrongful thoughts and then there would be terrible, horrible consequences maybe.
In the modern world (today) the shaman of the modern world insists that we should believe in the God particle, and that Einstein is the son of the God particle sent down from Heaven to take away our science sins. Since the world is made of scientist's beliefs, there could be horrible, terrible consequences if any of us would dare to blaspheme against the Word and Teachings of Einstein.
Perhaps the Word of Einstein has been misunderstood by the modern day shaman and the villagers. The existing interpretation shown in the graph below is too simple and lacks structure.
Yours truly doesn't believe in Einstein. Burn him at the stake. There could be terrible, horrible consequences for having wrongful thoughts about the following graph. Perhaps you shouldn't even look at it.
Toward the end of his life, Alexander the Great had stated that "the velocity of visible light is the same in all directions". Alexander the Great found this fact thousands of years ago, by mathematically reducing the plant errors in plane surveying. Alexander's subjects would fight wars because there would be a dispute about who owned the land. There would be a dispute about where the border actually was. As their leader, Alexander would have each little kingdom measured by pacing off the distances and setting boundaries. Then he could stop a war by showing that the border between the warring kingdoms was set in place by their leader, Alexander. He drew maps to scale.
All this pacing would take a long time to accomplish until he, Alexander invented a way to survey the land using transits, angles, and plumb bobs. He invented a way to draw maps to scale by looking at the landscape in a precise way. But the maps did not fit together on a flat plane that would represent a flat planet. By reducing the errors in this technique, he surmised that the planet was round instead of flat. He kept this knowledge to himself mostly. But there was some error left over after correcting for the curvature of the planet, and eventually he, Alexander realized that this was because the planet was spinning and the constant speed of light, plus or minus the velocity of planetary spin, was causing the plant error in plane surveying. No one knew what that meant.
Folks would read the books of Alexander during the subsequent centuries and wonder what it all meant? No one could figure it out. During the most previous century, Paul Dirac and Albert Einstein read the books of Alexander with wonder. What is the velocity of light? Modern experiments by Michelson and Morely seemed to agree with the books of Alexander. The cosmic door seemed to be shut.
Nothing in science ancestor Albert Einstein's theory states that "all photons travel at the same velocity". Einstein, as Alexander the Great, has stated that "the velocity of visible light is the same in all directions". Alexander the Great found this fact thousands of years ago, by reducing the plant errors in plane surveying. Though not until Einstein came along did anyone understand what that means. Einstein realized that the velocity of light can't be broken. Or can it?
A phenomenon known as dispersion shows that higher frequency waves travel faster than low frequency waves. In math, we will take the limit of the Einstein curve as frequency approaches zero. The zero frequency represents mass. From this curve we can ascertain that the "light barrier" for mass is lower than the velocity of visible light. Those particles in any science experiment cannot go any faster than Vmass. Unfortunately the God Particle theory supposes that a particle could travel with the velocity of visible light, Vlight. For this reason alone the God Particle theory would seem to be unlikely to succeed. Perhaps there isn't any such thing as a God Particle in reality.
Existing particle theories and the cosmology theory-of-the-universe are based on the flat Einstein curve. Actual measurements may have resulted in the tilted Einstein curve. It is tough for a scientist to realize that he has been working all his life on theories that are based on the flat Einstein curve that hasn't been proven. There might not be any valid basis for ideas like
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The shaman of the modern world, who has a vested interest in promoting the Religion of Science, may well conclude that this writer pr perhaps you, the reader has "broken the universe" by thinking wrongful thoughts about the Einstein curve. Yours truly would reply that the wrongful thought had occurred to him years before and there had been no consequences. Quark theory , Venn Diagrams that go to infinity in all directions, and God Particles. A lot of courage will be necessary for real scientists who decide to chuck it all and start over. Throw out a lifetime of work.
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