You need to answer the How questions of physics, before you can properly look at the Why questions of religion (yours), and philosophy. One possibility that I find compelling (and it is never a complete answer) is that God is a Boltzmann Brain, and the Universe might be, in some fashion that particular a Boltzmann Brain. Most here on this mailing group despises this notion, (which is ok by me!). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain In 2004, a German physicist, Andreas Albrecht, reviewed the Boltzmann equations and sort of pondered this, a bit. http://albrecht.ucdavis.edu/special-topics/inflation-arrow-time A couple of years before, the Yahoodi physicist, Leonard Susskind had also looked at this possibility. https://events.stanford.edu/events/138/13871/ Neither of these guys turned religious at all, but their speculations still stands. It makes as much sense as the conventional models of the cosmos, and yield the added, benefit, of suspecting in all this emptiness (apparently) that there's a Big Mind out there. Maybe God is akin to a computer operating system, compared to us microbes? For me, it's sort of inspiring.
-----Original Message----- From: Samiya Illias <samiyaill...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wed, Aug 28, 2019 12:15 am Subject: Re: Quantum Foam On 28-Aug-2019, at 9:01 AM, Philip Thrift <cloudver...@gmail.com> wrote: On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 5:55:36 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote: I came across a good article that is apposite to the discussion in this thread. Arnold Neumaier has an article on virtual particles at: https://www.physicsforums.com/ insights/vacuum-fluctuation- myth/ where he looks at the origin of much of the common mythology surrounding the idea of vacuum fluctuations and virtual particles. People should read this and take the lessons to heart -- all of this mythology arose from well-meaning, but ultimately mis-guided, attempts to explain the mysteries of quantum mechanics to lay people. The result was enduring confusion, that now affects even professional physicists. Bruce Very interesting fellow. Interesting article. I was intrigued reading the link there to his biography of himself being math to applied math ending up in computing and dabbling in physics. Sounded like me! Then Two years after my Ph.D., my formerly atheistic world view changed and I became a Christian. I got convinced that there is a very powerful God who created the Universe, who controls what appears to us as chance, and who is interested in each of us individually. I understood (with Galilei, and later Newton and Maxwell) that God had written the book of nature in the language of mathematics. As a result of these insights, one of my life goals became to understand all the important applications of mathematics in other fields of science, engineering, and ordinary life. It is a challenge that keeps me learning all my life. https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/interview-mathematician-physicist-arnold-neumaier/ @philipthrift I pray may Allah bless you with faith. He has already blessed you with much knowledge and understanding. May He choose you to serve Him with reverence. Samiya -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/12e6f2d4-d437-41c6-8cfb-2aa6887a7de3%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/2088B473-5B71-4322-91E5-AC23E748E8B6%40gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/681292908.79363.1567033180287%40mail.yahoo.com.
