In the eighties of the last century, it still took a while before the penny had dropped. But once it did, I couldn’t be stopped. Western particle physicists perceive the 'ultra-microscopic' as a world of patterns, resulting in the  need for a special 'quantum theory' for describing that world. To me that raised the following question:

"Could subjective-scientific observation possibly be the reason for why one should consider natural phenomena as the parts, packets, chunks or quanta of patterns or structure levels that make up the larger units?"

 

If that question can be answered positively, subjective-scientific observation could indeed be the reason why the ancient Chinese theory should be considered a quantum theory, as mentioned in the introduction, but for the cosmos instead of the ultra-microscopic world. In that case, the position of the "Holy Wise men" is by no means symbolic.


It’s not easy to grasp why you should consider most of the natural phenomena in the ancient theory as portions or quanta of larger units, because there are no clear clues during the act of observing. It far beyond our imagination.

Apparently, it was as confusing to China’s ancient scientists. They only began to understand their theory after converting it to terms of Qi (氣 = energy). The same thing happened to western physics at the dawn of the previous century.

Einstein's Theories of Relativity and Western Quantum Mechanics too can only be understood in terms of energy.

 

Continue to: 1.3.2. Cosmic quantum phenomena

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