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The Nature of Nature: The Discovery of SuperWaves and How It Changes Everything
What is everything made of? How do things change and how do they work? What is life? In The Nature of Nature , visionary scientist Irv Dardik tackles these questions by introducing his discovery of SuperWaves, a singular wave phenomenon whose design generates what we experience as matter, space, time, motion, energy, and order and chaos.
Simply put, the SuperWaves principle states that the fundamental stuff of nature is waves—waves waving within waves, to be exact. Dardik challenges the rationality of accepting a priori that the universe is made of discrete particles. Instead, by drawing from his own discovery of a unique wave behavior and combining it with scientific facts, he shows that every single thing in existence—from quantum particles to entire galaxies—is waves waving in the unique pattern he calls SuperWaves.
The discovery of SuperWaves and the ideas behind it, while profound, can be intuitively grasped by every reader, whether scientist or layperson. Touching on everything from quantum physics to gravity, to emergent complexity and thermodynamics, to the origins of health and disease, it shows that our health, and the health of the environment and civilization, depend upon our understanding SuperWaves.
The Nature of Nature is an absorbing account that combines Dardik’s contrarian look at the history of science with philosophical discussion, his own groundbreaking research, and hope for the future.
Simply put, the SuperWaves principle states that the fundamental stuff of nature is waves—waves waving within waves, to be exact. Dardik challenges the rationality of accepting a priori that the universe is made of discrete particles. Instead, by drawing from his own discovery of a unique wave behavior and combining it with scientific facts, he shows that every single thing in existence—from quantum particles to entire galaxies—is waves waving in the unique pattern he calls SuperWaves.
The discovery of SuperWaves and the ideas behind it, while profound, can be intuitively grasped by every reader, whether scientist or layperson. Touching on everything from quantum physics to gravity, to emergent complexity and thermodynamics, to the origins of health and disease, it shows that our health, and the health of the environment and civilization, depend upon our understanding SuperWaves.
The Nature of Nature is an absorbing account that combines Dardik’s contrarian look at the history of science with philosophical discussion, his own groundbreaking research, and hope for the future.
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352 pages, Hardcover
Published May 16, 2017
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April 26, 2022
This book kind of reminds me The Selfish Gene by Dawkins. It's extremely readable. Elegant, even. When I wasn't reading it I was thinking about it. It starts off bringing up questions, questions that anybody can relate to. Then it answers those questions not by positing new facts, but by urging us to look at things in a different way. It's simple and it seems obvious that you can't just ignore half of things and that much of what we've been looking at can be explained by viewing it in terms of an upswing AND a DOWNswing of a wave. It makes sense (as does Dawkins) but with my limited science ability, I don't feel so comfortable trusting my own sense if something this major is logical and sensible or not. Reading Dawkins knowing that it's been almost 50 years and scientists have accepted it and built on it is very different than reading Dawkins and thinking it makes sense but having no idea if the scientific community will accept and build on it. I'm very curious to see what the scientific community makes of this. I myself was particularly moved by how elegantly (I keep using that word but it's the best word for the theory) it explains "dark matter." I also didn't realize that everything in the body oscillates and that protein movements and DNA movements could be significant. I'd really be curious to see how my body tests in terms of heart rate variability and how the timing of exercise and medications would make a difference. I'm almost tempted to run out and sign up for his program but really I'm not an early adapter and I'm more of a wait and see how this plays out. But it's tempting! He gives examples of areas where further research can be done and examples where research has been done and of applications he hadn't even conceived of have been done. I really can't speak about the physics because I don't know enough physics, but I think it's hard to deny what he says about waves clustered in waves. It is obvious all around us, now that he's pointed it out. I thought of James Gleick's book Chaos many times as I was reading this book.
September 15, 2020
Dardik’s presentation of the SuperWaves theory is entertaining. However apart from the name itself, he hadn’t discovered anything original.
It’s clear that he lacks the grounding and meaningful practice in crucial disciplines such as physics, philosophy and spirituality to bite off such a big chunk.
While I could entertain the theory of SuperWaves to some extent, I could not fathom the actual discovery part which presented the author’s “insights” of human physiology and treatment approach. It shows a lack of understanding of the scientific process and a tendency to jump to conclusions. The book started out well. It is a shame where it ended up. I wish the author had been more patient and more observant before penning this work.
The author seems to be well read, yet his solitary mention of Nikola Tesla, who promoted thinking of the universe in terms of frequencies, is very superficial. I do question the quality of the author’s literature review versus quantity.
I see this book as an opportunity wasted. It could have been so much better with patience. But kudos to the author for making the efforts.
It’s clear that he lacks the grounding and meaningful practice in crucial disciplines such as physics, philosophy and spirituality to bite off such a big chunk.
While I could entertain the theory of SuperWaves to some extent, I could not fathom the actual discovery part which presented the author’s “insights” of human physiology and treatment approach. It shows a lack of understanding of the scientific process and a tendency to jump to conclusions. The book started out well. It is a shame where it ended up. I wish the author had been more patient and more observant before penning this work.
The author seems to be well read, yet his solitary mention of Nikola Tesla, who promoted thinking of the universe in terms of frequencies, is very superficial. I do question the quality of the author’s literature review versus quantity.
I see this book as an opportunity wasted. It could have been so much better with patience. But kudos to the author for making the efforts.
September 7, 2020
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Written by a scientist, Dardik takes us into the SuperWave: a wave whose design affects everthing and the idea that waves within waves are within...everything. This is a truly groundbreaking book for those familiar with the concepts outlined but also those wanting to expand their knowledge.
Elisa - Book Grocer
Written by a scientist, Dardik takes us into the SuperWave: a wave whose design affects everthing and the idea that waves within waves are within...everything. This is a truly groundbreaking book for those familiar with the concepts outlined but also those wanting to expand their knowledge.
Elisa - Book Grocer
August 17, 2024
Waves within waves... it was a secret of nature until the author realized this is the mechanism of the Universe... or so he says. I find the book Interesting. But whether all or anything comes from this theory is left to the future. I agree what physics has come up with so far (before this) Is Not Working.
February 6, 2019
This book offers a legitimate understanding of the dynamical linkages that exist between the various levels of emergent causality in humans. For instance:
“I saw a definite similarity between the endurance athletes and people who succumb to drug addiction or suffer from post-traumatic stress-disorder. Drug addicts who overdose die after falling into a coma – not while high but while in a crash after the high. Post-traumatic stress disorder, as the name clearly underscores, doesn’t kick in during the stress that is experienced, but afterward. Sometimes people cannot recover from the recovery that naturally follows their upswings. They cannot pick back up again. From this perspective, the key was that whatever the cause of Jack Kelly’s death, it somehow involved the overall process of exercise followed by recovery.” – Irv Dardik, The Nature of Nature: The Discovery of Superwaves and how it Changes Everything; pg. 153, Rodale, 2017
As a person who is very well read in the literature on developmental or complex post-traumatic stress disorder, I found Dardik's explanation of the dynamical continuity between the physiological recovery related to intense muscular exertion (exercise) and the affective recovery related to a stressful emotional experience (Dardik uses meditation as his term) to be remarkably insightful - and on that account alone Dardik's book deserves to be recognized as offering an important piece to the puzzle (hehehe) of how human's self-organize.
That said, Dardik, trained as a physiologist, does not seem to realize that there is an unconscious affective regulation process that intermediates between the conscious regulation of affect (meditation) and the more basic physiological recovery processes related to muscular exertion. Nevertheless, it is very satisfying to know what sort of dynamical continuity exists between the body, the affective body, and the conscious mind, in that all these dynamics express the same fluctuations and exhibit the same problems when the system is pushed beyond its energetic threshold: in the case of running without being properly trained for recovery (or parasympathetic control on the heart) ones heart can literally stop. Similarly, if one is exposed to a dysregulating affective stimulus - a loud environment, yelling voices, mean or dissociative faces - the affective body will be forced to dissociate the content related to the stimulus (as mild trauma) or if the stimulus is long enough, to dissociate its own conscious mind from it's body, creating the tell-tale signs of PTSD.
That said, it really feels like Dardik doesn't properly understand modern physics, as the idea that 'particles' exist - or that physical objects exist - is sort of relevant to the way matter organizes itself. Particles/Objects matter, ergo, physics has related to it as such
It is truly only because I enjoyed that example from Dardik that my rating is not 1 - which is to say, Dardik's sheer philosophical ignorance of why particle/wave, or for that matter, a dualistic monism is taken, has everything to do with how matter works. Dardik's philosophizing is truly of the lowest order - nevermind his apparent unawareness of what drives physicists to posit dark matter or antimatter, and how numbers/ideas relate to actuated realities/objects. Particle/wave duality falls within the schema of things; it is not necessitated by observation alone, but by semiotic and geometrical realities that matter.
How I finished Dardk,'s book without ripping my hair out is a mystery. I started off with what I found to be interesting - continuity between physiological (exertion/rest) and social (arousal/rest) dynamics in the body; and indeed, these sorts of linkages are important. But Dardik attempts to bite off too great a piece by attempting to attack all of modern physics - and to boot, he must have experienced his arguments as sufficient, either demonstrating an ignorance of the facts (of what makes most people regard modern physics as coherent and the most plausible explanation we have of how matter works) or an intellectual and existential dullness that most educated people will be immediately turned off from.
“I saw a definite similarity between the endurance athletes and people who succumb to drug addiction or suffer from post-traumatic stress-disorder. Drug addicts who overdose die after falling into a coma – not while high but while in a crash after the high. Post-traumatic stress disorder, as the name clearly underscores, doesn’t kick in during the stress that is experienced, but afterward. Sometimes people cannot recover from the recovery that naturally follows their upswings. They cannot pick back up again. From this perspective, the key was that whatever the cause of Jack Kelly’s death, it somehow involved the overall process of exercise followed by recovery.” – Irv Dardik, The Nature of Nature: The Discovery of Superwaves and how it Changes Everything; pg. 153, Rodale, 2017
As a person who is very well read in the literature on developmental or complex post-traumatic stress disorder, I found Dardik's explanation of the dynamical continuity between the physiological recovery related to intense muscular exertion (exercise) and the affective recovery related to a stressful emotional experience (Dardik uses meditation as his term) to be remarkably insightful - and on that account alone Dardik's book deserves to be recognized as offering an important piece to the puzzle (hehehe) of how human's self-organize.
That said, Dardik, trained as a physiologist, does not seem to realize that there is an unconscious affective regulation process that intermediates between the conscious regulation of affect (meditation) and the more basic physiological recovery processes related to muscular exertion. Nevertheless, it is very satisfying to know what sort of dynamical continuity exists between the body, the affective body, and the conscious mind, in that all these dynamics express the same fluctuations and exhibit the same problems when the system is pushed beyond its energetic threshold: in the case of running without being properly trained for recovery (or parasympathetic control on the heart) ones heart can literally stop. Similarly, if one is exposed to a dysregulating affective stimulus - a loud environment, yelling voices, mean or dissociative faces - the affective body will be forced to dissociate the content related to the stimulus (as mild trauma) or if the stimulus is long enough, to dissociate its own conscious mind from it's body, creating the tell-tale signs of PTSD.
That said, it really feels like Dardik doesn't properly understand modern physics, as the idea that 'particles' exist - or that physical objects exist - is sort of relevant to the way matter organizes itself. Particles/Objects matter, ergo, physics has related to it as such
It is truly only because I enjoyed that example from Dardik that my rating is not 1 - which is to say, Dardik's sheer philosophical ignorance of why particle/wave, or for that matter, a dualistic monism is taken, has everything to do with how matter works. Dardik's philosophizing is truly of the lowest order - nevermind his apparent unawareness of what drives physicists to posit dark matter or antimatter, and how numbers/ideas relate to actuated realities/objects. Particle/wave duality falls within the schema of things; it is not necessitated by observation alone, but by semiotic and geometrical realities that matter.
How I finished Dardk,'s book without ripping my hair out is a mystery. I started off with what I found to be interesting - continuity between physiological (exertion/rest) and social (arousal/rest) dynamics in the body; and indeed, these sorts of linkages are important. But Dardik attempts to bite off too great a piece by attempting to attack all of modern physics - and to boot, he must have experienced his arguments as sufficient, either demonstrating an ignorance of the facts (of what makes most people regard modern physics as coherent and the most plausible explanation we have of how matter works) or an intellectual and existential dullness that most educated people will be immediately turned off from.
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