Part 1 68 the IPPC's Rising Michael Lipkind Catastrophe Level a Student of the Great Biologist Discusses the Importance of Gurwitsch's Thought and Work

Features News SPECIAL REPORT Krafft Ehricke's Moon: A Lush Oasis of Life 15 The 7th International Conference 19 Marsha Freeman On Cold Fusion: Only a grand vision for lunar development will move space The Latest Word about Cold Fusion programs into the future. Dr. Edmund Storms GURWITSCH'S NON-REDUCTIONIST BIOLOGY ENVIRONMENT 66 There's No Truth to the Introduction: Alexander Gurwitsch: Father of Biophysics Rising Sea-level Scare 34 Co lin Lowry Dr. Richard D. Terry A marine geologist examines the myth that global warming will raise Alexander Gurwitsch and the 36 sea levels. Concept of the Biological Field, Part 1 68 The IPPC's Rising Michael Lipkind Catastrophe Level A student of the great biologist discusses the importance of Gurwitsch's thought and work. PEDAGOGY 74 Revisiting the Simplest Discoveries Dr. Jonathan Tennenbaum Remarks on Gurwitsch's Method 52 Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. An economist comments on the importance of Gurwitsch's method for Departments physical economy, in particular, the spread of pandemics like AIDS. 2 EDITORIAL 3 LETTERS Simulation of Amperian Current Elements 55 By Magnetic Toroids 6 RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS Hawking Radiation Challenged Thomas E. Phipps, Jr., and Jorge Guala Valverde With Far-Reaching Implications A relatively simple experiment, using U-shaped magnets in a toroidal Dr. Mario Rabinowitz configuration, demonstrates the existence of Ampere's angular force, which has been written out of physics by Maxwell, Grassmann, 8 NEWS BRIEFS Lorentz, and their epigones in today's physics establishment. 10 VIEWPOINT Extraterrestrials Have Never Visited the Earth Julian Grajewski In search of a relatively transcendent physical 83 BOOKS principle to unite two or The Anisotropy of Space more astronomical cy by Maurice Allais cles into a single whole, Remi Saumont Jonathan Tennenbaum pursues a geometrical 88 BOOKS RECEIVED metaphor. See Peda gogy, p. 74. On the cover: Illustration of Moon colony by Pat Rawlings, courtesy of the Lunar and Planetary Institute; cover design by Jim W. Grace/Science Source, Photo Researchers Rosemary Moak. EDITORIAL Overturn Reductionist Science! his issue brings together reports on Not without reason, the life sciences Tthree topics, so seemingly unrelated, were the last to succumb to the onslaught according to the conventional schema of of mechanistic philosophy: that is, the science, that it is necessary to call the belief that all processes of nature can be reader's attention to the hidden, or un explained by resort to matter (in the form derlying conceptual thread, which unites of irreducible elementarities) and motion. them. The three articles are the report by Although many today even mistake this Professor Michael Lipkind on Alexander for the scientific method, we have shown Gurwitsch's work in biology, Lyndon elsewhere that such a prejudice (im LaRouche's commentary on Gurwitsch's ported into England from 16th century method, and physicist Thomas Phipps's Venice), and diffused by such populariz contribution on the virtual Amperian ers as Thomas Hobbes, Francis Bacon, current-element. and Isaac Newton), was never the basis The great beauty of the work of A.G. for discoveries in modern science.1 Gurwitsch is that it establishes so clearly, Formalism's Procrustean Bed and in so many different applications, that Not only is such reductionism unac the growth of a living organism cannot be ceptable in the life sciences, but it is explained by reference to a prepackaged equally unacceptable in the so-called set of instructions located within the indi hard sciences. Contrary to the usual text vidual cell. From the bell-Iike shape of the book and popular science accounts, it is chamomile floscule, to the form of the ep only by restricting the domain of appli ithelial layer in shark brains, the existence cations to the most specialized class of of the whole cannot be explained as the phenomena that one succeeds in fitting mere sum of of its parts. Comparing one the actions of inorganic nature into the member of a species to another, the parts, Procrustean Bed of sterile formalism, (individual cells, groups of cells, or or which textbook authors like to call "uni ganelles) are never the same, and are of versal laws." ten widely different in size, orientation, Thus, Andre Marie Ampere, by no later and ordering; yet, they arrive at the final than 1825, had demonstrated that the goal, the whole, which always assumes "universality" of the mechanism of the the shape or form recognizable as charac "inverse square law," which seemed to teristic of that species. underlie the phenomena of gravitation, But even more remarkably, the indi static electricity, and magnetism, did not vidual cells seem to act as if ordered by extend to moving current electricity. some agency outside of themselves. Gur Here, in addition to magnitude and dis witsch denotes by "biological field" his tance, a dependence on the angular rela attempt to conceptualize such an agency. tionship between the elements of current Yet, we must also recognize that it is had to be considered. The validity of Am only because of the success of our philo pere's new Force Law was brilliantly es sophical opponents, the reductionists and tabl ished by the collaboration of Carl mechanists, in imposing their restrictive Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber over point of view on all fields in science the ensuing two decades. However, ow biology above all-that Gurwitsch's work ing to the hegemony of mechanistic doc appears in any way remarkable. A cen trine, as enforced by such as Clausius, tury ago, it was not so, and even 50 years Helmholtz, Lord Kelvin, and Maxwell, ago, these were at least, topics of debate. the Ampere-Weber Law was suppressed Today, however, biology is molecular bi and eradicated from the textbooks. ology, that is, reductionist biology. There As demonstrated anew in this issue, by is almost no questioning of the axiomatic Thomas Phipps, Jr., and Jorge Valverde, assumption that all causal relations are ul Nature is not a studious reader of text timately to be explained by the actions of books. The deeper lesson to be learned, the genetic material, and the assumption is that nature is not reducible to laws de that its actions are reducible to something scribing "irreducible particles" and their analogous to a computer program, or like motions. Indeed, the irreducible particles form of symbolic logic. do not exist. Ampere's experimental re- 2 Summer 1998 21 st CENTURY EDITORIAL searches led him not to an irreducible el intellectual breakthroughs, which we call ementarity of electricity, but to an in Art (or Culture), and Science. These, by creasingly complex inner structure of their nature, must originate in the mind matter, which he associated with the con of an individual member of the species, cept of the "magnetic molecule." In the although the conditions which give rise hands of Wilhelm Weber, Ampere's mag to them are social. netic molecule became the basis of mod In the first case, that of biology, it is ern atomic science, including Weber's not so evident how one is to account for Letters discovery, publ ished in 1870 (and also the progression of the series. In the sec removed from the textbooks), of the non ond case, human economic evolution, Fusion: Hot or Cold? existence of the Coulomb repulsive force or progress, LaRouche recognized that below a certain critical length.2 the motor for development from one To the Editor: As LaRouche identifies in the third ref stage to the next, is the creative facu Ity The purpose of this letter is to point erenced piece, the source of the persist of the human mind: creative scientific out an inconsistency in the Winter 1997- ing error in contemporary science lies discoveries, socially disseminated and 1998 issue of 21 st Century: not in the stars, but in ourselves. The tol realized as breakthroughs in technology. Charles B. Stevens says ("Sandia Na eration of reductionist doctrine not only The vi rtually massless output of a cre tional Lab Clears Path to Inertial Fusion") produces error across the spectrum of ative human mind, a new idea, thus be on page 27, "Nuclear fusion of hydrogen scientific investigation, from the inor comes the motive force for the succes nuclei to form helium is the source for ganic to the living domain. It also actu sive evolutionary transformations in the the energy output of the stars." Stevens ally reverses the natural ordering, such biosphere, realized by human society. goes on to give another pitch for the old, that, in the ultimate absurdity of modern The analogy or parallel to Gurwitsch's and so-far sterile, hot fusion research "i nformation theory" approaches, the notion of the "biological field" guiding program. higher-ordered phenomenon of mind is the progressive development of the or Dr. Edmund Storms ("Cold Fusion: explained by the random actions of in ganism is notable. An Outcast of Science"), on page 24, sensate elementary particles-the The Primacy of Mind reports on Randell Mills's concept of billiard-ball theory of mentation. This leads us necessarily to the con "fractional energy levels [of hyd rogen In LaRouche's contribution, "Some Re ception that the hierarchy established by whereby] energy can be released by the marks on Gurwitsch's Method," he pre the reductionists' influence over sci formation of collapsed hydrogen atoms sents his unique refutation of reduction ence-that is, physics (even mathemati called hydrinos." In fact, Mills has ism, which emerged as the solution to a cal physics) at the top of the pyramid, fol stated (Infinite Energy, Vol. 3, p. 21) crucial paradox of economic science lowed by the other physical (quantitative) that "the gases around the Sun are 2 that is, the relationship of the human sciences; below them, the life sciences; million degrees and the surface only mind to the process of expanding physi and at the bottom, the (non-quantitative) 6,000 ....If the energy is being pro cal economic reproduction.

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