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Fig. 2.7
A circular cone
treated as a combination
of the two sets of triangles
or triads - the horizontal
(or “in-plane”) triads
(e.g., AC
0
B and AC
00
B)
and the vertical (or “out-of-
plane”) triads (e.g., ACB
and C
0
CC
00
)
2.3.8 The Conic Theory of Everything (CTE)
Complementarity began its philosophical career as Bohr's interpretation of quan-
tum mechanics (Murdoch 1987; Plotnitsky 2006; Lindley 2008), but the
complementarism (see Sect.
2.3.4
) that was formulated in the mid-1990s (Ji 1993,
1995), although inspired by Bohr's complementarity initially, is now based on the
complementarian logic (see Sect.
2.3.3
) whose validity is no longer critically
dependent upon the validity of Bohr's complementarity as a philosophy of quantum
mechanics (Murdoch 1987; Plotnitsky 2006; Lindley 2008) and can stand on its
own feet. The wave-particle duality, which served as the model for the
complementarian logic, may or may not obey all the three logical criteria of
complementarism (especially the exclusivity criterion), depending on how one
interprets experimental data such as the Airy patterns (Herbert 1987) and de Broglie
equation, Eq.
2.37
.
In July, 2000 (see Appendix A), I proposed to divide all complementary triads
into two classes - one residing on the base of a circular cone (called “in-plane” or
“horizontal triads”) and the other standing on the circular base (called “out-of-
plane” or “vertical triads”) (see Fig.
2.7
). One interesting consequence of dividing
all triads into these two classes is that only the vertical triads possess a common
apex (i.e., C), the horizontal triads have an infinite number of the apexes (i.e., C
0
,
C
00
, A, B, etc.). This geometric feature of the circular cone may be useful in
representing some of the profound philosophical ideas such as the Tao (viewed as
C in Fig.
2.7
) as the source of everything (A, B, C
0
,C
00
, etc. on the base of the
circular cone) in the Universe.
The Conic theory of Everything (CTOE) consists of the following elements.
