Originally Posted by
Gottlob1
V, I try to play it both ways, but, always, with the scientific foot, first.
Einstein was the last of the famous physicists to be a philosopher, too, as well as both a skilled lab technician, and theorist. As much as Hawking appreciated Einstein's mathematical interpretation of things, extended and simplified it, Hawking publicly pronounced philosophy to be dead. Hawking believed that there could be no theory of everything, hence no God, etc, - based on mathematical proof that there could be no axiomatic basis on which to base every truth, ie, there are things that may be both true, but, wholly not provable. Each was a product of their times, particularly of their limits of physical experimentation.
Einstein believed there was one unique solution to everything with Relativity Theory (opposed to Quantum Theories) at its core, but, now several believe that there are several thus solutions, and, in the form of many different notions of physics, itself, which, of course, means that we could not have any way of knowing the other types of physics.
My belief has, always, more or less, been, eg, that the overall puzzle has to be simultaneously worked from each end.
Simultaneous, say, in the abstract sense that even though matter and antimatter, supposedly, stem from nothingness, and, each is eternal, their creation/annihilation is ongoing, which, coincidentally, is a result of quantum entanglement.
Supposedly, matter is taken as the low-energies, in a field, that are perceivable as the periodic table, chemical elements. Einstein noted that matter doesn't truly exist. Contrary to popular belief, Einstein's gravitational field stuff is about energy, not, mass, which is the reason that the Higgs particle stuff, which gives rise to mass on a quantum level, has nothing to do with the big unknown, quantum gravity. (That negative energy doesn't exist, but, the energy of the gravitational curvature of space-time, in a sense, is the "anti-energy".)
Which leads to the notion that mind, itself, either, doesn't truly exist. Which leads to totally unconventional methods to solve the overall puzzle. Which, accidentally or otherwise, leads to a way that very indirectly involves some relatively very simple math attached to only one method of thus solution. You might call it the "standing on thin-ice approach". What no mathematician, or physicist, will accept without simple, self-evident proof beyond an arbitrarily small reasonable doubt. Try telling one that base ten, with numerals made of the digits from 0, to 9, (along with base fourteen), is the natural or preferred system of numerals. You would be met with howls of laughter. But, it's true.
Oh, speaking of Fibonacci (spiral), there's no reason that time has to wrap around on itself, like space, according to Hawking, or, continue without start, or end. One need only start to put things together in a simplistic sense.