"John Dobson. Einstein's Physics Of Illusion (англ.)" - читать интересную книгу автора

just because of its smallness, and if you let it get bigger, its electrical
energy would go down. If it could get infinitely big, its electrical energy
would go to zero. So you can think that electrical energy is just the
tendency to go back to the infinite, just as the gravitational energy is
just the tendency to go back to the undivided.
Now these two things are really the same thing. The wind up against
gravity by being spaced out is exactly the same thing as the wind up against
electricity by being spaced in. And these two things make up the rest mass.
They make up the thing called inertia. It's the electro-gravitational energy
of the particles which we see as their rest mass. It is that energy which is
hard to shake. It's impossible to see an apparition of this sort without
having it wound up. It is not possible to see this universe except wound up.
The infinite and the undivided must necessarily show as the electrical and
gravitational energy. There is no such thing as matter. There is only this
energy, and the energy is five hundred atom bombs per pound. The energy is
the consequence of the apparition. It is the yearning for liberation in the
apparently finite. It is the yearning for the undivided in the apparently
divided. And it is the yearning for the changeless in the apparently
changing.
With the help of this notion of apparitional causation suggested by
Einstein's equations, we are able, you see, to trace our physics all the way
back to square one to answer those why questions. With Einstein's help we
are able at last to understand why matter falls, why it coasts, and why it
is made of discrete electrical particles.
We have to look at it very carefully. We have completely to change our
understanding of geometry. Our native understanding of geometry, or rather
our native misunderstanding of geometry, is a genetic mistake. We make the
mistake because it was never necessary not to. It was never necessary, in
the long past history of our race, for us to see space and time correctly.
It never was. It was definitely necessary that we have at least a dog's
understanding of a three dimensional space, otherwise we wouldn't have had
offspring, and the species would all have died out. But it was never
necessary to understand that space and time are opposites. It was never
necessary to understand the origin of gravity, or the origin of inertia, or
even the -fact that the atoms are made of electricity, or the fact there are
92 chemical elements. It's not necessary to understand any of these things
in order to have offspring and have the perpetuation of the species go on.
It works all right through many, many mistakes.
You must not think that just because it's a native perception on your
part that it's true. That has nothing to do with it. Just look back and see
how you got the way you are. You have to think that it's all a mistake, and
you have to notice that our genetic misunderstanding of space and time is at
the root of it. That's where the root is. It is with. in our mistaken
notions of space and time that we see this universe the way we do. So what
we have to do is to straighten out our misunderstanding. Space is not really
that which separates the many. It's that which seems to separate the one.
There's only one. And in that space that oneness shines. Therefore falls
whatever falls. Space is not that in which we see the finite. There is no
finite. Space is that in which the infinite appears as small, and in that
space that vastness shines. Therefore bursts whatever bursts. Therefore