Tetrode
“The sun would not radiate if it were alone in space and no other bodies could absorb its radiation.”
Source: H. Tetrode, Zeits, f. Physik 10, 317 (1922)
Wheeler, Feynman
“Tetrode’s idea that the absorber may be an essential element in the mechanism or radiation has been neglected perhaps partly because it appears to conflict with customary notions of causality”
Source: Wheeler, Feynman, “Interaction with the Absorber as the Mechanism of Radiation”, Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol.27 Number 2 and 3, April-July 1945
Remark: Einstein suggested to Wheeler and Feynman to read up on Tetrode’s papers on Physics. Tetrode was a Dutch physicist who for the most part is forgotten and ignored.
Tetrode
“If for example I observed through my telescope yesterday evening that star which let us say is 100 lights years away, then not only did I know that the light which it allowed to reach my eyes was emitted 100 years ago, but also the star or individual atoms of it knew already 100 years ago that ‘I’, who then did not even exit, would view it yesterday evening at such and such time…”
Source: H. Tetrode, Zeits, f. Physik 10, 317 (1922)
Muhammad’s Nur was created but it did not shine, as we understand the shining and illuminating. It had to have an absorber or reflector thus the mirror in Hadith Nur.
But after reading Tetrode above we understand:
1. Mirror was expecting and seeking Muhammad’s Nur to reflect, that is the Istiqbal formed according to the template Istif’āl which has the characteristic of seeking or yearning or expecting (TODO: Add more references for grammar here)
2. Nur of Muhammad had knowledge of the said mirror, this knowing was not cognitive knowledge as we have, this was a primordial knowledge that did not have ignorance.
Therefore the appearance of Muhammad and Islam upon this earth necessitated the creation of the said mirror. Or else Muhammad’s Nur would not have shone.
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Salaam Shaikha
One other issue we need to add more research on is non-causality. Tetrode’s theory was ignored to this date because the only modality of time allowed within scientific and philosophical community is the causal time.
Introduction of non-causality into the spiritual thoughts is of paramount importance.
For example the Mirror of Haya yearned to form the image of the peacock within herself even before it was placed in front of him! ‘yearned’ might not be a proper word.
In Sufism the non-Causality of Dhikr has been studied: When we remember Allah, it was actually Allah who remembered us FIRST as in PRIMORDIALLY FIRST and an echo of that remembrance is our Dhikr in this life.
Therefore the introduction of non-Casuality into our spiritual thoughts is a must INSHALLAH.
It is as if you are saying that our very existence involves a longing to fulfill our function, and that function is to acknowledge the existence of All That Is. Let me know if you prefer me not to bring in my western references, but in the meantime, this reminds me of Milton, “They also serve who only stand and wait”. In this context, you could say they serve by paying attention, which is adab.
But to get back to the yearning mirror and the echoing dhikr, both are a kind of holding in the mind, and more, by fulfilling the function, reflecting or echoing, it is like a completion. It is an expression of the very nature of all that is.
I keep trying to get back to the non causality and it slides away again. What I’ve said above seems to me to be linear, or circular if you like, but still progressive. I have followed the line as if the mirror was predestined to yearn to reflect the peacock which simply reintroduces cause and effect rather than – what? spontaneous complementarity? The peacock must equally have been longing for the mirror, yes? So the miracle may be that both came into existence for the other, a needed match but not an anticipated match.
> Let me know if you prefer me not to bring in my western references
No not at all the writings I do are for the Westerners, please feel free to express yourself
I think non-causal wording of spiritual experiences and ideologies is the way to go vs. the age old sequential causal descriptions
Salaam Shaikha Al-Br
We can say: If there is no one to hear a tree fall, it will never fall! i.e. the act of falling and hearing the sound of falling are inexorably linked.
>Yet each definition is true, and so each statement is both true and not true.
Statements are true in some context or boundary, out of that boundary/context they are false or meaningless. So they are true and the same time not true.
Salaam wa barakatu Jalal
I hadn’t taken it that far in my mind! But there is always a conscious witness to the tree so I suppose it must fall. On the other hand, if there is no witness to the tree, perhaps it cannot exist at all. Which brings us back to “If it were not for you, I would not have created the universe”.
And I think also connects with your further comment above.
Yes I see – and philosophically it reminds me of the idea that if a tree fell in the forest and there was no one to hear it, it would not make any sound. In the same way, if one defines sound as something heard, then it is true. But if one defines sound as a wave action, then it is not true. Yet each definition is true, and so each statement is both true and not true. And at a more significant level it is also true that for any action to be complete (or, perhaps better, not futile, or perhaps also to fulfill its purpose) it must have a receiver. It is quite an enriching view that all of us give meaning and completion to all around us, and long to do so like the mirror. If it were not for you, I would not have created the universe.