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Yijing: Metaphysics & Physics
Dr Andreas Schöter
School of Technology & Creative Arts
Carnegie College
Scotland
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Overview
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Metaphysics and Physics
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Wuji-Taiji and Vacuum Polarization
Heaven/Earth and the Implicate Order
Divination
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Synchronicity and the Implicate Order
Holism and Morphic Resonance
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Taijitu Shou 太極圖說
Non-polar and yet Supreme Polarity!
The Supreme Polarity in activity generates yang;
yet at the limit of activity it is still.
In stillness it generates yin; yet at the limit of
stillness it is also active.
Activity and stillness alternate; each is the basis of
the other.
Zhou Dunyi 周敦頤 (1017-73CE)
Translated: Adler (2009)
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Wuji er Taiji 無極而太極
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Wuji 無極
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Taiji 太極
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Unpolarized
Supreme Polarization
Liang Yi 兩儀
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Paired Principles
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The Classical Vacuum
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Time & Harmonics
t1
t2
ΔT = t2 - t1
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Time & Harmonics
t1
t2
ΔT = t2 - t1
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Heisenberg's
Uncertainty Principle
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Certain properties of physical objects form
complementary pairs.
The more accurately one property from a pair is
known, the less accurately it is possible, in
principle, to know the other.
The position & momentum of a particle are a
complementary pair of properties:
ΔXΔP ≥ h/4π
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The Quantum Vacuum
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The Quantum Vacuum
The quantum vacuum can be viewed as a sea
composed of all the elementary particles and
their antiparticles constantly appearing and
disappearing.
Barrow (2001)
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The Quantum Vacuum
The quantum vacuum can be
meaningfully described by the
phrase
Wuji er Taiji 無極而太極
But the particle & antiparticle
pair are too tightly bound to be
perceived...
How do yin 陰 and yang 陽
arise and separate?
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Vacuum Polarization
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Vacuum Polarization
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Vacuum Polarization
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Old and New
approach the old teaching in order to bring out
new views
Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130-1200)
Translated Adler (1990)
what we have to do with regard to the great
wisdom from the whole of the past, both in the
East and in the West, is to assimilate it and to go
on to new and original perception relevant to our
present condition of life
David Bohm (1917-1992)
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Dr Andreas Schöter
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