Piercing the veil of modern physics: part 2 & philosophy

ion is from many things to extract the common or essential features, and abandon their different and non–essential features. In the long–term and repeated the test of practice, for those essential features having invariance or absoluteness, which can’t use empirical methods to verify in reality, should belong to metaphysical category. And the others belong to the scope of natural science. Mathematics runs throughout the both, which has constituted all the knowledge. This is the Lao–tzu so–called Tao follows nature.6 Therefore, the conclusion after reflection is that the physical phenomena in reality can be with the help of mathematics to provide the basis for the introduction of the concept of absolute motion. And put the above Einstein’s argument to modify as: “The ‘principle of relativity’ in its widest sense is contained in the statement: The totality of physical phenomena is of such a character that each does the utmost to give the basis for the introduction of the concept of ‘absolute motion’ or shorter but less precise: There is no absolute motion in reality.” The concept in philosophy–metaphysics The first man who translated English word “metaphysics” into Chinese should be the Japanese scholar Tetsujiro Inoue (1855–1944). According to the Great Appendix III (Section I)7 of The Book of Changes, in which there was “what is above shapes is called the Tao (all the knowledge), what is within shapes is called the implements,” he was the earliest to understand and translate it into Japanese. Although the Chinese scholar Yan Fu (1854–1921) had resisted such a translation, and translated the word “metaphysics” into the “Mysticism”, but has not been accepted by the public. As a result, the word “metaphysics” was converted from Japanese into Chinese. It should be emphasized particularly that in terms of concept and applicable scope, the Chinese term for metaphysics which has been translated from Western philosophy, is markedly different from the “above shapes” or what is above shapes in Eastern philosophy. To this, make sure not to confuse. Otherwise, will cause misunderstandings on the concept between Eastern and Western philosophy. If rustically to understand, in the Great Appendix III (Section I) of the Book of Changes, for the sentence “what is above shapes is called the Tao;” among them the Tao above shapes is the meaning of all knowledge, which can cover all the areas of knowledge (known and unknown, being and non–being, right and wrong, as well as groundless or specious). Obviously, Natural science (including Physics), Metaphysics and Mathematics have been Piercing the veil of modern physics: part 2 & philosophy 138 Copyright: