Quanta. "...Can any single visible object exist in two places at once? Can something the size of an olive, for example, be here and there at the same time? This seemingly impossible state is the norm for atoms, photons, and all particles that make up matter. According to the surreal laws of quantum physics, reality at its most fundamental level defies our assumptions: particles do not have definite positions, energies, or any other fixed property - certainly when no one is observing them. They exist in countless states simultaneously.

But for reasons physicists do not understand, the reality we perceive is different. Our world - even those parts of it we cannot observe directly - appears to be entirely non-quantum. Large things, anything the size of a virus and up, always seem to be in one place and one place only. And here lies the mystery: if everything is made of quantum matter and energy, why don’t we ourselves experience this quantum state? Where does the quantum world end and where does the (so-called) classical world of Newtonian physics begin? Is there a gap in reality, a scale beyond which quantum events simply cease to exist? Or is it the opposite - is everything everywhere subject to quantum mechanisms, and we just can’t comprehend it?

'We know the microscopic world is quantum, and we know in one way or another that we are classical, whatever that means,' says Angelo Bassi, a theoretical physicist at the University of Trieste. 'We are ignorant about the true nature of matter between the micro and the macro.' This no-man's-land has puzzled physicists since the birth of quantum theory over a century ago. In recent years, experiments have been conducted to explore how objects suddenly transition from the quantum condition to our everyday reality. Whether these attempts to solve the mysteries of quantum theory will make them even deeper - no one knows... However, quantum theory revolutionized how we understand atomic structures and transformed every scientific field, from biology to astrophysics..."

So began one of the articles in a recent issue/special feature on the “quantum universe” in Scientific American. No, we didn’t choose it as a casual, off-the-cuff introduction to quantum physics! We chose it as a representative, minimal “slice” of what constitutes the real “scientific body” today - and there is no doubt that physics is the mother and model of all other sciences (whether they deserve to be called such or not). So what do we have as the “science of sciences”? A confessedly impressive (human) theory a century old; overwhelming evidence of its power; concepts that cannot be grasped through current, everyday empiricism; applications that are being prepared and multiplying (the next “revolution”!); and infinite acknowledged, confessed ignorance.

When in a “scientific body,” and especially in the one at the intellectual pinnacle of modern human civilization (in physics), ignorance is openly admitted, then this (fortunately!) perforated “cognitive universe” can become sympathetic - even before it becomes comprehensible. On the contrary, when under the guise of “science” appears the dogmatism of knowledge-where-there-is-none, and when the intention is not some truth (even metaphysical, even temporary) but power, control, and monetary gain, then it is an enemy. An enemy of humanity and humankind, with the deepest, political meanings of these two words.

Such is the state of the main branches of the 4th capitalist industrial revolution (biotechnology, neuroscience, cybernetics engineers): they are becoming ever more openly enemies. Their “neo-positivism” has no solid cognitive basis, none whatsoever. It has directly authoritarian and economic legs: they rush to override every social rejection, doubt, objection; they rush to impose themselves as the “new normal.” In the end, they have buried whatever made sciences fascinating adventures of the human spirit (the open admission of ignorance, the importance of questioning), and in their place have adopted the dirtiest tricks of Christianity: the demand for “confession of faith,” the ostracism of “heretics,” “sin” and “punishment.”

Recently, such a “great heretic” died: virologist Luc Montagnier. Montagnier was deified and became famous (a “Nobel Prize” in 2008, together with Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen) for the discovery of the HIV virus... And almost immediately began his downfall, when he started to deal with the bold theory of another “damned” specialist, immunologist Jacques Benveniste, about the “electromagnetic properties” of life. The approach of Benveniste, and subsequently Montagnier and his collaborators, was completely contrary to the chemocentric and genocentric perception of biology (and the pharmaceutical cartels), and rather tended toward Taoist concepts, reaching the impressive position regarding the “memory of water.” Eventually, Montagnier was condemned to the “epistemological stake” when he questioned the dominant “truth” about covid-19. A “crazy old man” (that was one of the “bells” they hung on him...) has no place in a world dominated by “robust” and “fit” scumbags like Fauci and Schwab and their faithful followers - isn’t that so?

We will not remain passive in the face of the tyranny of “scientism,” which is simply the pseudonym of technocracy in its most aggressive and hegemonic capitalist manifestations. Epistemologically, we descend from a Giordano Bruno, a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a Wilhelm Reich, and others like them: not for their “truths” but for their intellectual independence to the point of audacity...

Let the faithful of techno-totalitarianism continue to kneel. And let the ignorants continue to hope for some kind of meta-life...

Ziggy Stardust