Ineffable Efficacy of the Way: The Daoist Planck Constant Conspiracy Coverup of Professor Martial Artist Patrick Edwin Moran on wikipedia

I was just revising images on my new article - Blue Light and Blues Music. I had made the mistake of copying the image from my blog directly which then copied the gmail address and so blogspot then deleted the images. So I had to go back to find the original urls of the images. I have on my footnotes an image of Heisenberg Uncertainty derived as time-frequency energy uncertainty. But the url is no longer active!!

So I had to find a similar image with an active url. Then something very wild happened.

So I found this image and went to the link - and it is from a Wiki page. On Heisenberg Uncertainty.

O.K. but when I read the description - something is not right - I smell something fishy!!

So I click on the little link on the image that gives the reference origin. Then I click on "more details."

Correct, graphically, the mistaken idea that the Plank constant is the smallest possible unit of energy.

So the image says that "vibrations" is just a number - but that is not true - any musician knows that!

The link is described as "why planck is not energy" - this is what the image describes as well - that planck is really "vibrations" and then the description says "planck is not the smallest unit of energy."

So if planck is not energy - and planck is not the smallest unit of energy - ergo vibrations ARE energy.

See what I'm getting at - logically something is very fishy.

So then I see the author of the image - so I google his name Patrick Edwin Moran and guess what the first hit is!!

Patrick Edwin Moran

Author

Books: The Way and Its Power: Lao Zi's Dao de Jing

Holy smokes!! He has discovered the same secret that I did!!

O.K. so now we have to read his research papers - he had a Ph.D. in Eastern philosophy!! What's he doing posting a time-frequency uncertainty image on Wikipedia!?

He answers the question if there can be "negative frequencies and wavelengths" with a philosophy answer 

So clearly he has been thinking about this stuff - in relation to quantum physics. I wonder if he has discovered the Law of Phase Harmony yet.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patrick_Moran11 

 So he retired as a professor - looks like Wake Forest University - yep - 2011 retired

So he translated classical Chinese texts and taught Chinese Started out as Stanford physics major!

  He was interested in science, and the year after Sputnik he entered Stanford University as a physics major. Within a couple of years it became clear to him that he was more interested in metaphysics than in physics, and he switched his major to Philosophy....

 Beginning in his first year in Taiwan, he has studied martial arts continuously. Most of the time, up until his arrival at Wake Forest University, he had the great good fortune to find an excellent teacher within biking distance. Depending on locations, he has studied White Crane style, Xing Yi and Shao-lin style, Shotokan karate, Wado karate, and some Aikido and Kendo.

Cool!

Answers a question on combining photons

When combined together, do different colored light waves join into new light waves (new wavelengths) or is this strictly an optical illusion of the mind? And if not, why not?

Has a website on traditional Chinese music tuning

Now let's put down frets according to the Chinese method. This method has an ancient history, and was first written about in the Lyu Shi Chun-qiu, a text produced by the "think tank" of a late Zhou dynasty figure around 239 B.C., and the Guan Zi, a syncretic text attributed to a very early figure, Guan Zhong, who died in 644 B.C. The book may have been compiled in the late fourth century B.C., but may also contain materials going back to the historical Guan Zhong's time.
The Chinese rule is very simple: Take 2/3 of the length of the open string, and put down a fret there. Then take 4/3 of that second length and put down a fret there. The third step is to take 2/3 of the last length, then 4/3, and so forth. Let's see how that works.

 The Chinese knew about the tempered scale even before it was invented in the West, but they chose not to use it.

 The Chinese system is based on the mathematical method of working back and forth by taking 3/2 of a base frequency, 3/4 of the frequency so produced, and so forth. Once a series of 12 frequencies is produced, they use each of those 12 frequencies as the fundamental frequency for a new scale. The result is 144 frequencies.

O.K. he explained that very clearly!! Way better than wiki (or maybe he did the wiki on it?). haha. Yep - he did!

So in his pdf paper on Lao Zi - he has a long commentary on quantum physics and Heisenberg's search for a better model based on objective reality - doing experiments with Kramer (of transactional fame) - passing light through oil. Hilarious!!

 He refers to Jill Bolte Taylor's Near Death Experience from her stroke - in this website on the Dao De Jing

 Anyone who has read any substantial part of the Dao De Jing will be prepared for the idea that the Way (the Dao) is a mysterious something that is not a part of the empirical world but is behind it. However, the word for "beginning" seems, on the surface, to be perfectly ordinary. As Joseph Needham pointed out in Science and Civilization in China, the Chinese word shǐ 始 is a cognate for tāi 胎, which means fetus or embryo. This kind of beginning is not like the beginning of a road. Instead, it is something hidden away in the womb that is the beginning of something that grows and changes organically. The left hand part of 始 is nǚ 女, which depicts a female human being. The right hand part is tái 台, which itself has two parts. The top part represents the embryo, and the bottom part represents the exit to the birth canal. The third character in this series, miào 妙, also has "human female" as its left-hand component. The right-hand part serves as a rough indication of this character's pronunciation. Although it is translated as "mystery" above, it would be more accurate to say that it means "ineffable efficacy."

 Fascinating! So the "Mystery valley of the female" actually means "ineffable Efficacy" of the female.... as the Way.

And then he refers to the Double Slit Experiment! Hilarious!! And also very fascinating indeed - he explains a secret I was just wondering about!

What is missing is any empirical information about the photon and what it does between the laser and the detection screen. Humans cannot see photons. Photons only "show up" when they hit an atom, cause an electron to jump to a higher orbit, and cease to exist in the process.

 But in between these two points the photon is completely out of touch with the Universe. In Daoist terms, humans can make relatively successful "names" pertinent to whatever gets going in the laser, and they can make relatively successful "names" pertinent to the trace of the dying photon on the detection screen. But in between there is only the hidden, the "inside," the "embryonic," the "dark," and the "mysterious."

O.K. I'm adding that to my article. That's awesome.

 There is a difference between saying that something does not exist and saying that something is a mere figment of somebody's imagination. The photon may not "exist," it may not share the same universe with us, but something is going on "in the Dao," or in the realm of potentialities, or however one may try to conceptualize whatever links the application of energy to the laser and the appearance of a flash of light on the detection screen.

 Unlike the majority of physicists, the author or authors of the Dao De Jing believe that it is possible to gain a kind of awareness of what goes on in the emptiness between laser and detection screen by voiding ourselves of ego and of all subjective feelings  about things

 O.K. so in his other pdf on Lao Zi - he relies on quantum field theory as a continuum to explain the "one" - this I disagree with since quantum field theory does not engage with noncommutative phase!

So then he refers to a book new to me - the "Historical Development of Quantum Theory" - 2 volumes - Mehra and Rechenberg. I think I've noticed this book but nothing stood out.