Gallery 10
The Whole versus the Sub-Element / the Individual
by Daniel J. Shepard
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What can be said about Hegel?
Hegel declared metaphysics to be dead and why not, after all: If the universe is a non-Cartesian system as Hegel proposed then there is no beginning or end to the universe
The two most dramatic aspects of our universe appear to be birth and death. Understanding the ramifications of birth and death can be demonstrated through Hegels own process:
Thesis:
Antithesis:
Synthesis
As such we obtain:
Thesis: Birth
Antithesis: Death
Synthesis: Life
Stated slightly differently we have:
Thesis: Beginning
Antithesis: End
Synthesis: Time
The thesis, antithesis, synthesis process applies to the whole of the physical universe. Such a statement conforms to the observations of physics presently in place today since matter and energy are directly related to the concepts of space and time as shown through Einsteins equation:
E = mc (2)
The formula involves time since c is the speed of light in a vacuum squared and speed is velocity or the ratio of distance to time squared. Thus emerges the apparent inseparable physical scientific relationship of matter and energy to space and time.
If we refine and redefine the thesis we obtain a new understanding of the possibilities for a new antithesis as well as a new synthesis.
Thesis: Matter/energy space/time
Antithesis: No Matter/energy no space/time
Synthesis: Abstraction
Graphically such a situation would appear as: