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Whatever gap it is we're talking about, the bottom line asks whether this Universe is :
(A) a mysterious amalgam of space-biased, language-mediated, mutually inconsistent theories about impressions we have of it.
or,
(B) an indivisible Event having a single structural principle which maps our histories.
The (A) option is current scientific consensus stripped of PR exercises.
The (B) option summarises the Faiths, belief systems having no science in support. It is also where art lives.
On the art track, (B) has now come into view carrying a fully fledged logic. The logic of Event may now supersede the (flawed) logic of physics. The series of forms as art on which it rests affords a visualisation where language has hit buffers. The best help from literature as philosophy is its failure. The flaw in language logic lies in a bias in favour of the visible as the real, and consequent dynamics conceived in terms of spatial effects. They are specious, philosophers have asserted that appearances are illusory, but to show clearly what else they have depended on metaphor, rhetoric, appeals to prophetic utterance and yoknowhatImean.
The art track, fortunately, has dispensed with literary argument forthrightly and in toto. There is a downside problem though. Writers cruising up their usual highway have missed the vital sliproad. Heavily armoured motorcades of the mental furniture industry are now found lost in highways and byways , their security assured by a well established rule-book on how to extract public funds The way HiTech can profitably exploit the nanosecond for its keep leaves targeted consumers looking more and more like a plague organism.
The art track led to a visualisation of time-functions. The vocabulary, grammar and syntax of the language medium has no rationale with which to deal with this structural aspect of the world as ÔEventÕ. The flaw is in a mistaken concept of 'time', and of the dimensional components hidden in it. Science as physics, to take this example again, is relatively optimistic with its mathematics but when reporting findings in writing the accounts fail to make (ultimate) sense.
The razor's edge on which the credibility of science rests is 'quantum gravity', which aims to unify the two main theories (quantum and Relativity). The problem continues to be pondered over in universities. The one luminary to dissent from this orthodoxy was EinsteinÕs colleague A.N.Whitehead, who advocated 'event' as necessarily the prime unit in nature in the 1920s, but that is as far as anyone has got in that direction. There is no vernacular. Event structure shows up as art, allegedly a non-rational and ambivalent approach.
The rest is notes.
1) What indivisible event?
The series of forms began from the zero action works c.1951 which state 'all art is on par with zero action'... and the finding from Einstein 1915, that 'Everything could collapse to Nothing at infinite heat'. The sense in that result lies in a reformulation of the dynamics. 'Event' structure as a function of three time-related components dispenses with spatial mechanics, after which it proposes a 'consistent histories envelope'. Think of a performance in sound (say taking ten minutes) from a preexisting score (atemporally omnipresent), that orders time-frequencies, and comes to an end. We make sense of that event structure.
2) "maps our histories"
One will need to be shown the time-base diagram and how it can be used as an equivalent for mythologies from physics to theologies. The time-relations show up as a (T=Time- based) diagram which proposes a numerate 'evenometry' (nothing to do with geo-metry) and is self consistent by point mark disposition within the (T) system.The key constructs were in being by 1972 and have recently begun to reach current theoretical physics departments.
3) what 'bridge' and what 'gap'?
Over the 20C it became apparent that the organism had become first cousin to e.coli... distasteful if not terminal. A logical and well tried escape programm consists in the following prescription: "Reposition the artist as Incidental (event-structure-conscious) Person (IP) within decision making bodies, with a protocol which ensures IP autonomy.".
For more info on these conclusions here is how:
"Persuade Keepers of the Public Purse to apply to Barbara Steveni, O + I *... for Instruction, Prescription and Map. "
(For reasons given above, the research work for these conclusions has been proscribed locally, ..and the Web is unsafe for posting such material).
* Barbara Steveni
Organisation + Imagination,
68 Anstey Road,
London SE15 4JY,
UK
email bsteveni@oandi.demon.uk
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