Modern+Physics

Miracles 3.2 The paragraph in Miracles seems to be a vague reference to Quantum Mechanical ideas.(commentary) Modern Physics is a term which essentially means all the Physics that post-date nominally 1905 when such things as Quantum Mechanics and Relativity exploded on the scene. Inherent in Quantum Mechanics is the notion of probability and the Uncertainty Principle. Lewis is not a scientist but is routinely exposed to scientists at Oxford. Many of the ideas expressed by scientists are incoherent in the context of Philosophy. Scientists tend to be utilitarian and since the ideas work, often quite spectacularly, they are taken to be truer than some argument advanced by Philosophers. The result has been a decline in respect among scientists for philosophy, this despite their unacknowledged dependence on philosophy for most of their foundational ideas.