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String theory, with its boggling multiple dimensions, may now be teetering on the edge of a similar quantum jump. Time will tell. But the key point is that the change from pre to post Einstein was RADICAL. It wasn't just reshuffling the deck; it was kicking over the card table and leaving the room.
Many scientists passionately feel "Darwin's Origin of the Species" was perhaps an even greater quantum jump. Indeed, we went from a jumble of absurdly superstitious oversimplifications, to an awesome (and evidence supported!) vision of not only life ON Earth, but also the life OF the Earth. It opened thousands of doors and answered thousands of questions and it still is arguably the bedrock paradigm of Earth existence. Once again the card table was kicked over and science left the room . . . for truth.
May we look at another example from the arts. Musicologists sometimes play the game of classifying different musical periods, from the Renaissance, to Baroque, to Classical, to Romantic, and to Modern. Everyone knows these classifications overlap and are somewhat arbitrary, but if we use them, then we should look at Beethoven, because Beethoven basically single-handedly evolved classical music from classical forms (as he was taught -- and well taught) to romantic forms. By the time you get to his 9th Symphony and the sublime Ode to Joy, the world of Romantic musical forms was heaven bound.
In conclusion, a less dramatic "revolution" in mathematics took place in the 17th Century when Rene Descartes and Pierre de Fermat (as in "Fermat's Last Theorem -- now recently proved), created coordinate geometry with the famous orthogonal axes and quadrants (or octants). The genius of this construction is that it interfaces geometry with algebra, which was infinitely liberating to mathematics, since suddenly mathematics was no longer tethered to three dimensions. So called n-space is a coordinate system with MORE than three dimensions (which goes with equations with more than 3 variables) which, of course, is impossible to visualize in your mind -- even though Einstein used a 4 dimensional system, where the 4th variable was time. However, after the coordinate system discovery (creation?), algebra could go limitlessly into n-space with, say 7 variables and 7 equations (a square matrix), or 12 variables with 10 dimensions. Also the equations didn't have to be "linear" e.g., a straight line or rectilinear constructions, and this opened up nonlinear n by m systems which only the most advanced computer programs can solve).
The point, again, is that this was a quantum jump change into "newness" and bye, bye traditional card table.
Perhaps these above supremely interesting examples of human quantum jumps (in physics, math, and music -- of course, there's many more), sharpens the focus of where human social evolution has taken us, since Einstein didn't "give up" when he found himself trapped in the common sense box of dead end physics, and neither should we.
However, it can't be said strongly enough that all the above examples didn't involve "compromise" or "adjustments" of their various status quos. In every case, what happened is that human intelligence, courage, and determination rose to the challenge of RADICAL CHANGE and to repeat the analogy, radical change is never "reshuffling the deck"; it's kicking over the card table and leaving the room. Or said differently, it quantum jumps out of the traditional common sense box into what in effect is a different dimension. Indeed, that's an excellent way to say it: what we're talking about is "dimensional change", and dimensional change is about 17 light years beyond Washington's game of marbles -- EVEN AT ITS BEST.
From an evolutionary perspective, it can be argued that our species is now at a social/biological "cusp", and if we don't quantum jump into dimensional change IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE, the Beast will not only inevitably destroy human Civilization, but will also destroy countless species (including, of course, us!).
Billionaire religious fanatics IN ALL COUNTRIES are the ultimate challenge of humanity, combined with the lunatic right wing fringe IN ALL COUNTRIES, which are the fascist "police force" of our mutilated planet's Dictatorships of the Rich (oligarchies).
This is the face of the Beast: astronomically rich parasites and/or murder in the name of God religious fanatics. And do we know who and where they are? You bloody well KNOW we know who and where they are! We know EXACTLY who and where they are.
So, our challenge is clear. We know our enemy (the Beast) and we know what "perpetuates" the Beast, i.e., politics and revolution.
Thus, the quantum jump is before us. Dimensional change not only "awaits", but reality is screaming at us to take 100% responsibility for creating A NEW MECHANISM FOR SOCIAL CHANGE.
If Einstein, Darwin, Descartes/Fermat, and Beethoven (etc., etc.) could do it, so can we!
I know this is being redundant, but if enough humans don't put it together that politics and revolution are crap, we will NEVER radically "deal with" the Beast, and NOT dealing with the Beast is species suicide. More specifically NOT dealing with the lunatic right wing fringe of ALL countries is species suicide, NOT dealing with sociopath religious fanatics is species suicide, and NOT dealing with astronomically rich pigs from hell (are you listening Rockefeller Sr?) is species suicide.
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