REAL PHYSICS

Today I found Lawrence Gage's blog called "Real Physics".  (Hat tip to the folks at Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex.)  His introductory piece explains the title with an excellent short essay on the incompleteness of science to explain reality.  The Real Physicist notes how the scientific method has been a very successful means of gaining knowledge of those aspects of reality that are quantifiable.  He then explains that not all that is real is reducible to measurement.  Beyond quantity there is quality, and quality is as objectively real as quantity even if it cannot be comprehended with the same certainty.  By failing to understand the reality of quality, he warns how we risk stripping ourselves of our human dignity.  This idea, well expressed by the Real Physicist, is what I was stumbling around with recently in making the distinction between scientific and aesthetic knowledge.  So check out his blog.  Well worth the visit.