The answers to ´wrong´ questions

• Mostly nothing.. no touch

  Matter seen on an atomic level is mostly empty space and the atoms themselves are mostly empty space. Bizarrely, this means nothing ever touches anything else (In the sense that atoms or molecules would ´bounce´ of each other. What happens when two objects bounce of each other is that an enormous amount of small magnetic fields interfere and change speed. But atoms never ´meet´. This trend of mostly nothing is also seen in space. It seems there is predominantly nothing in the universe and really very little everything. This makes the way we usually think about what happens in nature wrong. It´s not logical matter can ´hit´ other matter, it´s quite surprising. There is not really a reason why matter shouldn´t phase through other matter, atoms just moving aside a little. It just doesn´t seem to happen. This makes almost every question we ask about the phenomenal world subtly wrong.

• Entropy & Time

  Why does time exist? Entropy according to the second law of thermodynamics is the principle, that chaos in a closest system can ONLY increase. This is caused because the ways in which any system can be ordered must always be smaller that the number of ways a system can be unordered. Probability will therefore see to it, that order decreases with random interactions, such as happen with brownian motion, which is always present when we are not at 0 K (or -273,15 C) (So, basically always)
  Systems need something to change IN, some dimensional movement.. That´s time. Entropy is also the reason you can never go back in time AND why you cannot stop going forward in time. (SO in a way, we are all time-travelers)

• Strange attractors in Chaos.

  Is there a creator? Very complex patterns have a tendency to emerge from very simple functions, once you daisy-chain them or even better continuously take input from one simple function and put it in another function. (Or a range of random functions).
  This is quite counter intuitive, but VERY easily proven with computers. The results are fractals, strange attractors etc. Patterns that are very hard to describe mathematically other than as their generators.
  This is true and makes the question of a prime mover moot. 

• De-personalisation of cause and effect (no free will)

  Forces in nature don´t want anything, evolution doesn´t want anything. Humans tend to think they do. This is still in the collective unconscious and seems counterintuitive to most. These days free will is under attack in the sense that it seems proveable by experiment that human will is not connected to human action or speech. This would mean we even personalise our own will.

• Subjectivity of grouping

  Any grouping that we do of phenomena in the real world (so not mathematics) is bound to be subjective at some point, some examples may be in order.. 

  • Continuous creation

    This is the impossibilty of grouping things in time, so beginnings and endings. We like to ask: Where do things come from? But things, ideas build on older things and ideas. This is where things come from.. they grow.

  • Dynamic Balance

    What is this? We like to group things like our bodies or a table, or even a body of water as a static group. In reality this isn´t true. There are always small parts, which make up this group which will in time no longer belong to the group. This is true for our bodies and ANY object in nature.

  • Wrongness of categories

    Some sciences are mostly or largely about classification, like geology, diagnosis in medicin, biology and astronomy. For instance in biology everything seemed allright, until we got to the platypuss. Instead of concluding that taxonomy was a wrong approach, most people concluded the platypuss was somehow wrong.. So too, the papilla of the tongue were classified by there shape and believed to specialise in different tastes. This myth of the tongue-map still prevailes, although the idea was first published in a paper that actually disproved it. The myth has lived on ever since. We like to see patterns, but nature defies us if we try to classify everything. Only some things we can put into categories, making categories quite useless and even a inhibitor of real understanding.
    In medicin some conditions are classified as ´autogenous´, which is just Latin for happining spontaneously. People who get a diagnose and ask how this comes about often hear this term for the first time and don´t ask any further. Basically it´s a doctors way of saying, we have no idea how this happens. But the term stops further questioning.

  • Wrongness of opposites

    When asked what is the opposite of...? A problem arises... For instance..
    Is it raining or not raining?
    Well, what is rain? Water drops falling from the sky, but a single drop is not rain. Two drops are not rain. Supposedly there is a ´magic number of drops per second´ that make up rain.
    However no two people can agree on a number. Still we happily name extremes of these conditions as raining and not raining and see this as a ´truth´
    We even learn these things to the impressionable minds found in kindergarten, trying to turn them into good citizens. 

  • Length and width and significance

    Famously when a coastline is measured with a smaller ruler, the result will be bigger, than when measured with a bigger ruler. Amazingly most objects will have a non-smooth and coastline like structure. Therefore things like surface and content are impossible to measure with an absolute number.  Physics has therefore invented significance. The amount that any measurement is bound to be wrong.