The most basic Chinese science models are, as far as I can verify, the CCM and the ASM. They are both based on the use of the Sheng&Po Cycle in creating structure tables in traditional Chinese sciences.

On the origin of the Sheng&Po Cycle, not much more is known than that it is based on the basic rhythms of the universe, making them actually science models for how to deal with those rhythms in ancient science. The CCM and the ASM are indeed very basic working hypotheses, but because the origin of those basic rhythms was unknown, I got stuck.

The purpose of my research was to find out the origin of these basic rhythms. Therefore it was  clear that I had to go back to a much earlier stage of eastern science. Because a good physics theory should initially be based on 'stationary observers', it was clear what to look for whlie reading the old texts.

Meanwhile, I did find out that the "Holy Wise man", the legendary scientists in the Yijing (易經, the Book of Changes), also connected scientific observing to stillness:

"They were sitting perfectly still, faced south".

At high school, however, I had learned that scientific observation in this way is absolutely impossible: because of their position, the "Holy Wise men" are a part of what they observe, and that makes their perception by definition subjective. So I have interpreted the standstill of the Holy Wise men as being symbolic, and I have therefore ignored it for a long time.

Furthermore, the fact that observers in modern western particle physics consider themselves to be part of what they observe - they can only examine ultra-microscopic events by manipulating them with all kinds of equipment – didn’t occur to me at the time.

I connected western science so ultimately with objective observation, that it simply didn’t occur to me that, in fact, particle physics is all about subjective observation.

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