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Mechanistic explanation
Definition
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A mechanistic explanation typically refers to an account of a phenomenon that describes the underlying process or mechanism by which it occurs, usually in terms of cause-and-effect relationships involving contact, interactions, or intermediary steps. In the context of physics, a mechanistic explanation often means:
- Physical Transmission of Forces: A force should be explained in terms of some medium or intermediary process, rather than appearing to act instantaneously across a distance.
- Stepwise Causation: The explanation should involve continuous, local interactions—such as collisions, pressure, or waves—rather than “action at a distance” without an evident intermediary.
- Reduction to More Fundamental Principles: The phenomenon should be reducible to simpler mechanical interactions (e.g., Newtonian mechanics explains motion using forces, rather than invoking inherent tendencies or supernatural causes).
When Newton’s critics (like Leibniz and Huygens) accused him of using an “occult” force, they meant that his gravity lacked a mechanistic explanation because it acted at a distance without any known medium. In contrast, theories like Descartes’ vortex model attempted to explain planetary motion through contact interactions (whirling aether particles pushing planets in their orbits).
Would you agree with this definition, or do you see “mechanistic” differently?
Comments
- This made me laugh:
Newtonian mechanics explains motion using forces, rather than invoking inherent tendencies or supernatural causes
- “Force” in Newtonian jargon means “supernatural cause”.
As a summary:
- Mechanical means motion is transmitted by contact.
- Non-mechanical means motion is transmitted without contact
How Newton’s corruption of the word ’force’ made its true meaning unrecoverable.
- Here we have an important corruption of words.
- Newton corrupted the word “force” so badly that we can only use the word “force” in Newtonian corrupted meaning.
- Where is the corruption?
- Newton defined “force” as a supernatural cause and defined motion as something caused by Newton’s supernatural cause he calls force.
Can force be transmitted?
[Chatgpt] Physical Transmission of Forces: A force should be explained in terms of some medium or intermediary process, rather than appearing to act instantaneously across a distance.
- Force is not something that can be transferred.
- What can force be transferring? Nothing.
- Only motion can be transferred.
- [chatgpt] “A force should be explained in terms of some medium or intermediary process rather that appearing to act instantaneously across a distance.”
- How do we force in terms of medium? What moves in the medium is not force but motion.
Stepwise Causation: The explanation should involve continuous, local interactions—such as collisions, pressure, or waves—rather than “action at a distance” without an evident intermediary.
- Collisions and pressure are contact processes. Waves too are contact motion.
- But Newtonian force is action at a distance by definition, right?
Voodoo magic and Newtonian force magic
- Voodoo magic is action at a distance, right? The voodoo priest makes a voodoo doll resembling the unfortunate subject located somewhere else and when the priest pricks the doll with a needle the pain caused in the doll travels the distance instantaneously, just like the Newtonian force, and cause pain in the target subject. Can we explain this magical action at a distance transmission of “force” mathematically? Yes, we can. We can study mathematically the quantity of pain caused by the needle. But does this change the fact that voodoo magic is magic? No. We just used the authority of mathematics as false witness.
- Newton cannot get away by saying that he is investigating his voodoo force only mathematically. Even he can express his voodoo force mathematically his supernatural magic force is still supernatural. Supernatural causes no longer belong to science. Newton’s use of the supernatural to explain natural phenomena makes Newton the anti-science. Newton is a dark occultist and slimy sophist.
Reduction to More Fundamental Principles: The phenomenon should be reducible to simpler mechanical interactions (e.g., Newtonian mechanics explains motion using forces, rather than invoking inherent tendencies or supernatural causes).
- When we say Newtonian mechanics we need to distinguish between terrestrial part of Newtonian mechanics valid on the earth. This part of Newtonian mechanics will involve, e.g., billiard balls, pulleys and all the other topics of the old science of mechanics.
- But Newtonian mechanics is also used to explain celestial motions, or orbits, and this is different.
- In both cases, what is transferred is motion, no forces are transferred. Only motion can be transferred. Transfer of forces does not make sense. Do you have any examples where forces are transferred. In the case of billiard balls clearly what is transferred is motion.
- In orbital motion in space nothing is transferred because there is no contact.
- So in the case of orbits “Newtonian mechanics explains motion using forces, rather than invoking inherent tendencies or supernatural causes” cannot be true. Newton’s force is a supernatural cause by definition.
- This is how deep the roots of Newtonian propaganda and myth goes. Newton simply labeled his supernatural cause with the word “force” and generations of Newton’s disciples believe that because Newton labeled a supernatural cause with a physical sounding label that supernatural cause became a physical cause. This is unbelievable.
When Newton’s critics (like Leibniz and Huygens) accused him of using an “occult” force, they meant that his gravity lacked a mechanistic explanation because it acted at a distance without any known medium.
- Again, anywhere Newton uses the word “force” or “gravity” or their synonyms or derivatives can be replaced by “supernatural cause.”
- And the quote is wrong. These are all Newton’s sophistry. Newton’s “gravity” cannot “act” on any distant body because it is a supernatural cause by definition.
- If “force” or “gravity” is defined by Newton as a supernatural cause they cannot exist in this world. And they don’t exist in this world.
- All these intentional misinformation was created by Newton. And we see that they are so ingrained in human psyche that we still repeat them as indisputable truths.
- “In contrast, theories like Descartes’ vortex model attempted to explain planetary motion through contact interactions”, but Descartes could not compute planetary orbits with his vortex theory.
Would you agree with this definition, or do you see “mechanistic” differently?
- I agree with your definition of “mechanistic” but I don’t agree with your statement that “Newtonian mechanics explains motion using forces, rather that invoking inherent tendencies or supernatural causes.”
- This statement proves that Newtonian propaganda and Newtonian myths and Newtonian falsehoods have been a inseparable part of our perception of nature. We believe that nature is Newtonian. But this only means that we believe that nature is supernatural.
- Newton’s force is supernatural by definition and as such does not exist in this world.
- Since you wrote that sentence, you must have thought that Newton’s force (in the context of celestial motions) is not a supernatural cause. But we know that Newton’s force is a timeless traveler (it travels distances without time passing) and therefore it a supernatural and miraculous cause. Newton’s force is no different than voodoo magic force that instantly travels from the voodoo doll to the subject in some distance away.
- I know you will say that Newton’s force may be supernatural but Newton studies forces only mathematically. This is a meaningless sentence.
- I can study voodoo magic force mathematically, e.g., in terms of pressure on the doll and on the distant subject.
- Does this make voodoo magic non-magical? No. Mathematically stated voodoo magic is still magic. Mathematically stated Newton’s voodoo force is still voodoo and supernatural
- But there is a more important issue with Newton’s voodoo force. Newton never uses his voodoo force in his orbit computations he only claims to do so and he enforces this lie by his authority.
- So the important question comes down to this Does Newton use his supernatural cause in the mathematics of orbit computations.
- There is nothing mystical about the mathematics of orbit computations. The mathematics of orbit computations is called Kepler’s Rule. There is no other way of computing orbits with a rule. There is no other rule and Newton uses, must use, Kepler’s Rule but he uses his own labels that he sticks to the terms of Kepler’s Rule. Newton’s disciples do not use proportionalities but equations so they use their own Newtonian sounding units Kepler’s rule. They apply Kepler’s Rule with Newtonian sounding labels and claim that they use “Newton’s laws” or “Newton’s gravity” or “Newton’s force” to compute orbits.
- There’s an accumulation of over three centuries of gooey Newtonian sophistry to reveal what is underneath, Kepler’s Rule.