Physics is Mysticism

According to Britannica, until recent times the aim of Physics was to discover and formulate the fundamental laws of nature, on a macroscopic and submicroscopic level. Only recently did physics become the science of matter, motion and energy, in the fields of astrophysics, geophysics, biophysics, and even psychophysics.  Experiments provide measurements that are compared to the outcomes predicted by theory.  A theory becomes law when the outcomes are as predicted.

It all sounds concrete, as if Physics was based in natural reality, but something else was added in the 1900’s that is not concrete or natural, but mystical!

In his 1975 book The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism, author and physicist Fritjof Capra was able to reconcile theoretical physics and Eastern mysticism using psychedelics.  In an interview with Capra, Werner Heisenberg – German Theoretical Physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics, and principal scientist in the Nazi nuclear weapons program during WWII, confirmed these parallels. The book was a best-seller and while some physicists also saw a connection, others, like Jeremy Bernstein, criticized Capra for using accidental similarities as evidence of deeply rooted connections. (Extracted from the article The Tao of Physics on Wikipedia.)

The connection between Physics and mysticism is rooted in the Pythagorean Theorem, is seen in the article Physics and the Pythagorean Theorem, by James Overduin and Richard Conn Henry, that describes how the theorem was used to go beyond our three-dimensional reality.  Physicists took a “giant leap of intuition”, and applied the theorem to time, speed, mass and energy, that are outside our perception, allegedly in the fourth and fifth dimensions. They add, although light appears to move quickly to our three-dimensional senses, in four dimensions it is motionless, and in that “light occupies no spacetime in four dimensions, one could debate whether it really ‘exists’ at all.”  They add “In five-dimensional relativity, that same statement may apply to everything!”