The science behind ‘Brexit’
I would like to present a model of the Brexit situation that is not built upon emotion. We are forced to live inside animal bodies and the forces that control animals cannot be switched off; they do not evolve out of us. These are forces which behave just the same as the fundamental forces of physics — they cause change — but unlike physics they do not have deterministic outcomes.
I work with professors at Feng Chia University and we have been able to show how the predictable parts of physics fit together with the unpredictable parts of chemistry and biology.
This means we can state what a system is, how it works and how we can use this information to make better, more informed decisions on how Europe and the UK should proceed.
Ever since Newton, there has been a misconception that one day physics would give us an explanation for everything. This is never going to happen and here is a proof you can all use to see the logic behind the argument: The laws of physics are set, they are the rigid unchanging rules that apply in simple situations.
The basic principle of evolution is adaptability within parameters, entities are shaped by the environment and the outcomes are unpredictable within the rules of life.
Clearly you are never going to get the second set of rules from the first. My work in Taiwan has been to show that evolution and entropy are in fact a conjugate pair, which act as a partnership to build the reality we observe.
Entropy always goes toward disorder, but provides the energy for evolution, which always goes towards more order. Greater disorder of energy leads to greater order of structure.
Evolution is based upon purely mathematical rules, which is why we see mathematics in nature. A snowflake is a physical and a mathematical structure.
Physics and mathematics are a conjugate pair and we need both to describe reality.
Let us now apply this knowledge to a real situation. Complex systems, like the workings of a cell, a nation or Europe self-organize without being told what to do. The order is built upon mathematical ratios that sit between pairs of aspects which seek efficiency.
The whole of evolution can be described as a system that seeks the optimum ratio between risk and reward. Biological systems find stability from the random fluctuations that sit at the base of the system, as Robert Hilborn shows in Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers.
This tells you what brings stability to a human system is freedom of personal choice. This is now science. If Europe is ever going to become a stable system it must not have a single controlling mechanism that can hold countries like Greece in an unnatural state of existence.
Greece and all the other countries must have a currency value that is reflected in the economy; these again are an interdependent pair.
This information can be used to let Europe try again to become a stable system, but this time built upon interdependence rather than control. Interdependence means a freedom and equality to trade.
The two camps in the UK both have to be listened to, and any answer which does not allow for animal instinct and a freedom to trade based upon universal rules, will fail.
What has happened is not a bad thing, it will force people to study the mathematics of nonlinear dynamics before making decisions.
My job is to put that mathematics into understandable language that can be printed in newspapers, giving people a chance to make informed decisions, which take into account animal emotions and an understanding of mathematics and science.
Peter Cook
Taichung
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