Part 03: The Seldon Dialogues, Excerpts -- A ‘‘‘Psychohistorical’’’ Problem.
Dear Reader,
FYI --
It is my pleasure, and my
honor, as an Officer of the Foundation
Encyclopedia
Dialectica [F.E.D.]
Office of Public Liaison, to share with you, from time to time, as they are approved
for public release by the F.E.D. General Council, key
excerpts from the internal writings, and sayings, of our
co-founder, Karl Seldon.
The third such
release in this new
series is pasted in below. [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version
presented below, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].
ENJOY!
Regards,
Miguel Detonacciones,
Member, Foundation Encyclopedia
Dialectica [F.E.D.],
Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.
“... Modern
humanity -- modern ‘mathematico-science’
-- has failed to
solve general nonlinear differential
equations, and, in particular, to discover the general solutions to the differential equations that represent
the “laws” of Nature
-- e.g., the Newton gravity equations for more than 2 mutually-gravitating
bodies [e.g., for stars and planets], the Einstein gravity equations of the
General Relativity Theory, the Navier-Stokes equations for flowing matter
[e.g., for weather systems], the Klimontovich and Vlasov equations for ionized
gases [e.g., for fusion plasmas] -- in short, has failed, so far, to break through ‘‘‘The Nonlinearity Barrier’’’.”
“It is our
hypothesis that this failure
is no merely “technical
difficulty”, no mere failure of mathematical ingenuity, nor is it merely due to a historically-generic “complexity”, to a sheer “objective
difficulty” of discovering
and expressing
such solutions.”
“It is an historically-specific failure, a failure of the modern «mentalité»; of ‘the modern ideology’.”
“Nonlinearity is not just a mathematical-technical
problem: It is a psychohistorical problem. ...”
