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However, Heidegger’s metaphysical construction is itself circumscribed in advance, because he argues that the metaphysics of our history is always already Platonism –– even when it explicitly moves against the rule of the suprasensory or outright denies it. Thus, Heidegger sees this or that metaphysical expression in this or that historical era, but always one and the same metaphysical essence. ” (65) Thus, if today’s physics is doubly constituted according to this universalist division, its metaphysics is, for all its myriad expressions, always already the same and destined to remain so until the entire cultural-historical project reaches its catastrophic completion.
These two forms of physics, he observes, indicate an epochal shift within modern physics itself, wherein it constitutes and determines nature in two incommensurable ways. And yet, as he points out, “what does not change with this change from geometrizing-classical physics to nuclear and field physics” is the way nature has to be already set in place as knowable “object-ness” –– in a manner that we in the next Act will consider in terms of the framework, or enframing, of nature. Whether physics is understood in terms of geometry or statistics, nature is always encountered as an object, even if, as in the case of quantum physics, it is 43 retroactively constituted in its trace.
And on the other hand, it works to differentiate the event into a commonly accepted reference point among colleagues. Perhaps even one day, after innumberable repetitions and shifting interpretations, it could become clear to sufficiently many physicists that the Higgs event is nothing of the predicted sort but rather something so exceptional and anomalous as to constitute a veritable paradigm shift within the field of physics. From its conception as a theoretical possibility or an isolated appearance on a screen, the event beckons a messy yet institutionalized path to scientific glory.