Theocharis, Turin and myself see the denial of absolute truth as the central failure of the twentieth century, from which all its other failures follow. The decline of science into the obscurantist meta-religion of Modern Physics is best grasped by looking as the religious parallel.

So long as a religion has one or more central mysteries, it is invulnerable to attack. Similarly, when the professionals sought to secure their long term career positions, they installed religious mystery at the centre of Modern Physics, flanked by much the same genuflexion as that surrounding the central mysteries of a religion.

Theocharis has compared and contrasted the mysteries of Christianity with those of Modern Physics, as follows;

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY

ONE GOD - THE HOLY TRINITY

JESUS - FULLY GOD & FULLY MAN

Nicene Creed (4th century)

Gregory Palmas (14th century)

Soren Kierkegaard (19th century)

LIGHT/ELECTRONS - EACH IS BOTH

WAVES AND PARTICLES

Albert Einstein (1905)

Louis de Broglie (1922)

Niels Bohr (1927)

ONE GODEVIL - THE UNHOLY DUALITY

NEILS BOHR - BOTH FULLY MAN AND FULLY WOMAN

GOD IS LOVE - John

GOD IS LIGHT - John

I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH,

& THE LIFE

MASS (OR IS IT MATTER?) AND ENERGY ARE EQUIVALENT.

LIGHT IS A FORM OF ENERGY

MAN IS THOUGHT. THOUGHT HAS WEIGHT. A TREE IS A FORM OF LEAVES

I BELIEVE THE RESURRECTION BECAUSE IT IS ABSURD

- Tertullian ca 200 AD

WE ARE ALL AGREED THAT YOUR THEORY IS CRAZY. THE QUESTION WHICH DIVIDES US IS WHETHER IT IS CRAZY ENOUGH TO HAVE A CHANCE OF BEING CORRECT. MY OWN FEELING IS THAT IT IS NOT CRAZY ENOUGH. - Bohr's reply to a far-fetched idea of Pauli, ca 1957

How about the metamorphoses of Zeus, or Lewis Carroll's Wonderland. Are they not absurd and crazy enough?

UNLESS YOU BELIEVE, YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND - Isaiah

BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO BELIEVE WITHOUT SEEING - John

FAITH MUST PRECEDE REASON

- Augustine

I have observed in teaching quantum mechanics (and also in learning it) that students go through the following experience: The student begins by learning how to make calculations in quantum mechanics

and get the right answers; it takes about six months. This is the first stage in learning quantum mechanics, and it is comparatively easy and painless. The second stage comes when the student begins to worry because he does not understand what he has been doing. He worries because he has no clear physical picture in his head. He gets confused in trying to arrive at a physical explanation for each of the mathematical tricks he has been taught. He works very hard and gets discouraged because he does not seem able to think clearly. This second stage often lasts six months or longer, and it is strenuous and unpleasant. Then, quite unexpectedly, the third stage begins. The student suddenly says to himself, "I understand quantum mechanics", or rather he says, "I understand now that there isn't anything to be understood". The difficulties which seemed so formidable have mysteriously vanished. What has happened is that he has learned to think directly and unconsciously in quantum mechanical language, and he is no longer trying to explain everything in terms of pre-quantum conceptions - Freeman J Dyson, "Innovation in Physics", Scientific American vol. 199, pp. 74-82, sept 1958.

The gimcrack post-Einstein ambience fathered much nonsense, and all of it is inter-related. One gets the hang of what they were up to if one realises that their objective was and remains job security. They all asserted that they were creating a revolution, but none admitted that the purpose was to entrench their careers. The New Physics was characterised in various ways. Heisenberg might replace causality by intentionality, in a bizarre reversion to Aristotle. However, it is convenient to summarise their activity as centred on the denial of Absolute Truth.

Although I can easily conceive of a universe with no absolute space but containing a moral system with absolute validity, the shoddy intellectualism of Brussels-Solvay 1927 (The Copenhagen Interpretation) thought that relativity must needs introduce relativity in morals and in all else. They also introduced the idea of Great Mystery at the centre of their physics, which puts them into the world of religion instead of science.