Isaac Newton Can’t Do It! - Science in Public Schools

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein

In the world of Internet Communication and Media blitz the foundational theories of Newtonian Physics are obsolete. Newton’s Laws cannot explain nor make sense of the technologies that we currently employ for common daily tasks.

Something so essential and commonplace as sending an email - which is one of our most frequent personal and collective activities in 2011 - simply cannot be explained nor justified with the Physics taught in our schools in Ontario [and Canada].   They are STILL teaching obsolete Newtonian physics while physicists call for modernization.

Only Quantum Theory [math, physics, et cetera] can enable and give the User a theoretical base that allows for the effective use of neutrons and electrons in communication and in social, cultural, physical, industrial, scientific and political change.

This is a sub-atomic particle era [The Atomic Age] and we know how to use our ‘subs’ with greater and greater facility. This cannot be accommodated by Isaac Newton’s universe and requires a conception of The Quantum. [This reminds me of the idea of The Tao in Chinese Taoism.]

How could I have known and who would have guessed that neutrons are existent phenomena that can and must co-exist in more than one place at the same time and that we can align, arrange and manipulate these electrons in meaningful ways that change all aspects of life, Human or otherwise?

Who would have suspected, given what was previously believed and taught? In fact I can send copies of arranged electrons to countless people all at the same time [cc & bcc]. Newton will not allow this kind of action and reaction, cause and effect.

We must teach our children Quantum Theory and we must do it quickly. In order for this to be possible, teachers and others must become acquainted with the Science of their Age. Presently they seem to know nothing and still struggle in a ‘mechanical universe’ instead of in a Quantum Universe.

Quantum allows and permits and enables miracles by the standards of Newtonian Physics. These Quantum Phenomena make the real condition and Being of the essential material of the universe the subject of a Science rather than a mystery, a technology rather than a miracle.

This is an impediment to our National stability, progress and growth. And this ‘problem’ is rooted in our public schools and the curricula we employ in them. These are outdated, obsolete and a waste of money, time, lives and other resources. Theory is everything!

In Newton’s Universe matter can only exist in one place at a time. Yet we prove on a daily and ongoing basis that this is not true; that matter can be duplicated, multiplied and applied to real situations with real results. Every time we write and send an email we are aligning electrons into meaningful series and then we use these arranged electrons to DO things.

These technologies are tools that enable us to make tools to do other things. This usually involves their duplication and multiplication. Newton was a genius of historic proportions but in light of quantum theory he wrong - or inadequate for our present and future scientific needs and applications.  It's quite simple really - Newton can’t do it!

Einstein could and did and he has enabled all of us to do it in keeping with his peculiar and effective view of reality; of the nature of the physical world and the potential that is embodied in the smallest particles of matter and their subcomponents, which are ‘non-matter’.

These tools have no physical being and cannot be located in a place. Still they are a ‘quantum leap’ ahead of their physical predecessors. LOL. The energy contained in these small particles is really difficult, if not impossible to predict and calculate at this point in our exploration and development of this new Science…this new set of sciences.

Teachers require immediate and appropriate training in this Science and other necessary Educational adjustments. This should have been done fifty years ago. Our survival and success depend upon this.

We need good teachers trained in good science and with good technologies available to assist them in sharing these important components of The Universal Culture with all students in all schools. The rules have changed completely in the physical world and everyone must know…quickly. The rules of education must change in order to accommodate the ‘changed’ reality.

One way to begin to address this set of problems is to engage the resources of The Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics in a public education “upgrade”. We need new Software…quickly.

“Newton is dead. Long live Einstein.”

RJW Copyright
June 19, 2006. 2139 h [15 minutes]
Guelph, Ontario, CANADA