Plato believed that there were 2 realities: the everyday world and a separate reality of “ideal” forms—somewhere “out there”. The Christians loved Plato even though he had been dead for 300-400 years when they came on the scene. Plato thought that everything we see is a poor representation of the ideal form, wherever that was.
I know this sounds a little strange but not much stranger than most religions. Actually what I think was going on with Plato was that he was looking for the “ideal” way to explain everyday reality since it is so imperfect and the methods of discovery at the time were so imperfect. He probably figured there had to be perfection somewhere.
Now we know that there is no perfect explanation for what is going on in the universe. So far the closest we have come is Newtonian physics combined with quantum physics, which always has an element of probability instead of certainty.
We have been missing something in our entire discussion of physics and how the world and universe work, and that is a dynamic. That is what this upcoming book is all about—the dynamic that is driving everything. The book should be available on Amazon around OCT 1.