Max J. Pucher is the founder and current Chief Architect of ISIS Papyrus Software, a globally operating company that specializes in Artificial Intelligence for business process and communication. He has written several books, frequently speaks and writes on IT and holds several patents.
The best scientists are the ones who are humble and philosophers. The worst scientists are the ones who believe they are something special because they gained some deeper understanding into some specific aspect of some theory, may it be general relativity, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, string theory, loop quantum gravity or the Bible.
Let me point out that mathematics does not prove anything and therefore nothing will ever proof any kind of universal theory except that we may gain a gut feel of ‘THAT COULD WORK’. Mathematics is a language that conveys a limited understanding to some limited aspect of some limited area of research. No more. Many mathematical methods are questionable tricks, such as renormalization. Many models require intermediate mechanisms that are completely unrealistic but seem to produce a plausible result of sorts.
That is nothing new. Long before modern science used mathematics philosphers were using imagination, as did Einstein in his ‘Gedankexperiment’, to find answers to troubling questions. One of the key questions already discussed in ancient India was whether the universe was built upon a continuum or a quantized grid. That core issue is as of now unresolved.
In classical physics (Newtonian) we look at values only on a larger statistical scale in Euclidian space and not at units of ONE. Looking at all aspects of ONE is not possible, hence Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. What we can measure IS ACTUALLY all we can know and we need to utilize one interaction with an entity to measure the other. That is however not a measurement problem but it is reality. Observation is interaction. If something does not interact with something else, then by all principles it does not exist. This is a proposal that Einstein was not willing to accept.
The conclusion is in terms of philosophy simple. Everything has to interact with something else at all times to exist. Light-quanta (photons) that travel lonely and non-interacting through space would be lost to this universe once they stop interacting. Quantum mechanics faces the problem of interaction in that the paradoxes only appear when you want to use an outside observer that is not part of the quantum system. It also puts the issue of causality on a new footing, because the observer is a cause! I propose that interaction is not cause and effect with time passing but that energy can be observed as time and/or distance.
That opens up questions of what the vacuum of empty space is made of. What topology is it built upon? What is time? Where does the energy of this universe come from? What is causality? None of these questions can be answered without considering cosmology. An important consideration is today the concept of emergence, in which we leave the path of reductionism to find ever smaller causal building blocks. Phase transitions with symmetry breaking changes of topology seem to play a major role in forming the layers of the universal structure.
What if anything could a) carry the timeless, non-local force of gravity and propagate the timeful, local electromagnetic waves? A plausibel proposal is that each quantum oscillator carries its own little universe with time and space around. Topological phase transitions would have to manifest the entities and forces of the standard model or quantum field theory by emergence.
As you can see we are nowhere nearer the answers, we are just finding more questions!
- Related Videos
- Related Articles
- Ask / Related Q&A




How Can You Survive 2012 - Surviving 2012
By: William Ansac | 14/11/2009Wondering how can you survive 2012? Surviving 2012 should be the only thing you are worried about. To survive 2012 you must educate yourself about the secrets of 2012.
What Will Really Happen in 2012?
By: William Ansac | 14/11/2009Will anything really happen in the year 2012? Yea something will happen. Scientists and religious experts agree something is going to happen, but they cant say for sure what will happen.
I sleep with nothin' but a flat brim hat and hockey jock on..
By: Marsten | 12/11/2009This is an article based on the lies and misconceptions of society. Does society have standards based on lies?
Dawkins’ Dilemmas Deluded or not deluded? -- That is the question!
By: Michael Austin | 10/11/2009Let’s face it – is atheism really a done deal? Richard Dawkins’ books, including The God Delusion and The Greatest Show on Earth are causing quite a stir. Will his hard-hitting atheism grip millions, quickly fade, or cause doubts to linger for generations? – The issues are huge, and will not go away. In this article I briefly explore some of Dawkins’ approach using a few of the ideas I offer in, Dawkins’ Dilemmas.
When She Melted
By: Teresa Silverthorn | 06/11/2009“I’m melting!” she said as she flattened to the ground. We all sat there in silence as the Wicked Witch melted, along with our fear of one of the biggest bullies the media had ever presented to children since the legend of the Red Guy with the Pitchfork had clouded our dreams with horror.
By Her Word
By: Teresa Silverthorn | 05/11/2009“A fairy lives in my yard,” she said with eyes that were intense. “What?” I said without even thinking. “A fairy. It’s been living there for awhile. I even built a house for it,” she said, looking me straight in the eye.
Punishment: A Social Concept
By: mrs. sonali ghosh | 01/11/2009Punishment is an ethical concept which is relavant within the society.
Debunking Physics
By: Stephen Mooney | 31/10/2009The article presents the cause of gravity, and the conceptual basis for a paradigm which specifies the process of the construction and evolution of everything from galaxies and solar systems and stars to biology.
Quantum Resonance 4 - The Copenhagen Interpretation and its Consequences
By: Max J. Pucher | 11/06/2009 | PhilosophyIn September 1927 at a meeting in Como, Italy, Niels Bohr presented his fairly philosophical Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Bohr made it clear that measurement not only disturbs what is being measured, but on a quantum mechanical level DEFINES what is being measured.
Quantum Resonance 2 - Causality in Human Psychology
By: Max J. Pucher | 11/06/2009 | PhilosophyIt seems that we do not have to ask anymore if nature is a complex adaptive system (CAS) as we can see it at work every day. The faithful in some form of Intelligent Design will attribute creative emergence to their Deity of choice but that we can respectfully position that as willful ignorance.
Quantum Resonance 1 - Questions and Answers
By: Max J. Pucher | 11/06/2009 | PhilosophyI do not see myself as a scientist, I am rather a philosopher. Some claim that it is the role of philosophy to doubt and question but I see it as the role that asks the questions that the scientiests should answer. Philosophers can also suggest answers and request that scientists proof or disproof them.
Quantum Resonance 5 - The Issue With Spontaneity
By: Max J. Pucher | 11/06/2009 | PhilosophyNiels Bohr made a very important remark: ‘The task of physics is not to find out how nature is. Physics is only concerned what we can say about it.’ David Lindley likened that to Wittgensteins ‘Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent.’
Adobe FLEX Versus Papyrus EYE
By: Max J. Pucher | 11/06/2009 | Web DesignThe only way to avoid the problems of FLEX and AJAX is to use managed life-cycle deployment for the EYE GUI components as we do with the Papyrus WebRepository. There is no Java coding required to assemble a GUI layout but just parameterizing the GUI objects in our EYE designer.
The Architectured Enterprise 2.0
By: Max J. Pucher | 11/06/2009 | Information TechnologyThe ISIS Papyrus Platform is radically different in each and every aspect. It offers a business architecture based methodology – not just an ‘open’ architecture – for process management that automatically discovers and documents any type of user interactive process performed on the entity models.
Executive Styles - Being Effective or Efficient?
By: Max J. Pucher | 11/06/2009 | LeadershipTruly, what does being efficient and effective mean? Efficient refers to doing something with the least amount of expendable energy/money! Correct? Well, to be honest a lazy person will be perfect in achieving that because he will think before wasting energy. Efficient has a relative meaning. It has to mean ‘more efficient than other ways.’