Does reality comprise only 5% of the Universe?

[AV1611VET]

If you can’t explain it in “non-supernatural terms” then your explanation involves theology not science.

What would YOU call the remaining 95% of reality?

 

[sjastro]

What would YOU call the remaining 95% of reality?

I explained the 95% of reality as an effect.

 

[Hans Blaster]

You need Faith

 

[sjastro]

Let's get back to the science in this thread.
In post #86 I present a diagram of how scientific theory is organized.
On the left hand side of the diagram are the non-phenomenological theories or theories which address cause.

By the 1960s particle physicists encountered a form of reality which was impossible to understand at the time, the many sub atomic particles discovered in the previous decades could be grouped according to their physical properties in what was known as symmetries.
This was known as the Eightfold Way.

One such symmetry is the baryon decuplet composed of;
Δ⁻, Δ⁰, Δ⁺, and Δ⁺⁺ delta baryons
Σ*⁻, Σ*⁰, and Σ*⁺ sigma baryons
Ξ*⁻ and Ξ*⁰ xi baryons
Ω⁻ omega baryon (unknown until 1964)

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One of the particles of this decuplet had never been previously observed when the eightfold way was proposed.
This was the Ω⁻ particle and was predicted it would have a strangeness S =−3, electric charge −1 and a mass near 1680 MeV/c2 by simply reading the characteristics off the diagram.
In 1964, the Ω⁻ particle was discovered closely matching these predictions.

No one could explain why symmetries worked until a quantum field theory called quantum chromodynamics was developed beginning in the 1970s.
The symmetries were determined by fundamental particles known as quarks.
Particle physicists weren't sure if quarks were mathematical artefacts or real until their discoveries in particle accelerator experiments.

This brings up the question of what a particle physicist thinks what is real as opposed to what the average person in the street thinks.
The average person would think in terms of what a sub atomic particle is made out of and that there no such thing as a fundamental particle as a fundamental particle can made out of something more fundamental and so on.
The particle physicist thinks of reality in terms of symmetry, quarks are fundamental particles which cannot be broken down into simpler particles as there are no deeper symmetries involved.

Quarks form part of the standard model of particle physics which a theory for ordinary matter.

 

[Divide]

The unseen reality is all around us every day. Everyone can't be lying. Some lady had a premonition to not get on that plane. It crashed. Was that not real? Sho me, premonition. Show me gravity for that matter, lol. Wind. Gut feelings.

I guess a lot of experiences in this life have to be taken out of the equation for the standard model to work right. There's explanations for everything. In this case (many) scientists are being short sighted in that way and thereby not being able to learn greater things about God, man and life. The minute you take God out of the equation, it becomes a fantasy, for nothing can stand without God being considered first.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Science is like detective work

Philosophy is also detective work

 

[JohnEmmett]

Did even bother reading it, perhaps it went right over your head or

Science accounts for 5% of what is important

 

[JohnEmmett]

The Eightfold Way worked out by particle physicists … did not involve God in their equations and predicted the existence of the Ω⁻ particle.

Are you not aware God is the Omega

 

[sjastro]

Are you not aware God is the Omega

It's remarkable you being a Buddhist failed to see the obvious.
The term Eightfold Way used in a particle physics was inspired by the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism.

 

[Hans Blaster]

Are you not aware God is the Omega

Three down quarks in a bound state is your version of god?

 

[JohnEmmett]

Three down quarks in a bound state is your version of god?

there is a star trek episode about the omega particle

 

[Hans Blaster]

there is a star trek episode about the omega particle

Omega *molecule* (ST: Voyager).

 

[JohnEmmett]

Omega *molecule* (ST: Voyager).

yes… that

 

[FreeinChrist]

ADVISOR HAT

This thread had a clean up. Posts were getting too personal and insulting.

You need to stay civil and keep to the topic.

Don't make me thread ban you.​

 

[FreeinChrist]

ADVISOR HAT

I am watching.
Stick to the topic.​

 

[sjastro]

Here is one of the excellent Kurzgesagt videos which explains dark matter and dark energy at a level the general public can understand.

 

[AV1611VET]

Here is one of the excellent Kurzgesagt videos which explains dark matter and dark energy at a level the general public can understand.

Interesting video.

Did he make the point (at 2:40) that dark matter is invisible, yet we [know] it's there because of its effects?

 

[sjastro]

Interesting video.

Did he make the point (at 2:40) that dark matter is invisible, yet we [know] it's there because of its effects?

At around 2:40 it refers to dark energy not dark matter.
The effects are briefly mentioned at 3:13 as an acceleration in the expansion of the universe.