Sunday, March 08, 2009

The Heavens are Telling the Glory of God

I'm no physicist by any stock of the imagination, so I'll be the first to admit I can't begin to understand the technicalities of what I'm about to discuss, but even at surface level this "junk" is mind blowing. So please feel free to clarify my understanding.
http://www.cebaf.gov/news/internet/1997/spooky.html
http://www.braungardt.com/Physics/Quantum%20Nonlocality.htm

Since I'm not a scientist (duh), my interest is metaphysical: which is the connection that fascinates me.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/arj/v1/n1/unification-theory
http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=434

Now string theory and m-theory are still being defined, and so it's not totally valid to postulate connections between those speculative ideas (eg., a ten-dimensional reality) with metaphysics as yet, I would imagine... but the claims of Quantum physics have been repeatedly produced by experiment, therefore a connection to reality has already been demonstrated. Which, as the article points out, means that what we perceive as matter is in fact infinitesimal charges of electric energy and empty space, not just subatomic particles. Yes, this is demonstrable science.

And then the whole issue of Quantum nonlocality. I'm not even going to go into how mind-blowing that is, because its possibility apparently irritated even Einstein, who despised Quantum physics because of it messing with the "rules", enough said. This ties in with teleportation. Yes, this too is demonstrated science.

Makes you wonder. As of today, broadly speaking, science is mostly an atheistic or agnostic curiosity... and the presuppositions are definitely atheistic (you could say anti-theistic implicitly as a suppression of the glory of God). But I wonder, when does Romans 1 emphatically kick in? While general revelation (the universe) does not provide answers that lead to salvation, we know that creation points to a creator. In that sense, I think biblically, speaking for humanity as a group, humanity's pursuit of discovery will lead man to God (whatever the outcome). Am I mistaken to ask - Is that not guaranteed? Will scientists start bridging the (technically non-existent) gap between the "physical" and metaphysical?

Maybe we see some of this already today. For instance: What, technically, is considered a miracle? It's the setting aside of the physical laws of the universe to accomplish something. If you read the dude's section (in the answersingenesis link) on "Zero-point energy field" the very underlying elemental foundations of all matter contradict the classical laws of physics, so that the unexpected is expected. For example, it is postulated that the expansion of the universe means that zero point energy is constantly being created out of nothing (the universe does not become diluted). There's a sense that (and this is my own take) realistically, the very underlying principle of all existence is miraculous (if defined as the setting aside of known laws).

And with these discoveries, questions arise of existence and the impact of the individual on reality, and the connection between the metaphysical and the natural. It seems the deeper science goes, it moves not away from those questions and their answers, but right into the maelstrom of the fundamental questions of spirituality.
As a rank amateur, I'm flabbergasted.

People, Psalm 8.

2 comments:

Patrick said...

Stephen,

Fascinating. I read some of the links you provided and the applications for this "instantaneous photon signal" seem truly other-worldly!

Skinniyah said...

It will be interesting to see how the next decade or so pans out.