A lot of people (Stephen Hawking among them) think you are either a scientist or religious....I don't think they are mutually exclusive. I guess I have an open mind.
First, there's no way we can know everything - only when we are looking into the eyes of God will we know everything, and that ain't happenin' on this planet!
Second, if we're not going to know everything, then there's always going to be something smaller or bigger for us to know - that which is created by God.
Third, we will always need God no matter what. It is our very nature, no matter how smart we get, we will always need Him - we are born needing Him. It is through him that we are able to survive and accomplish and even excel greater than we thought through all the wonders, or what others might say is the scary-dark of the unknown.
Fourth, We were not put on this Earth with our God-given intelligence, curiosity with the dictate not to use that intelligence - or to use it some places but not in others. We are all meant to be curious, to experiment, to discover the wonder that God has created all around us. Why wouldn't we want to know about all the wonders...they get us closer to God.
This is why I love checking out all these science sites, particularly the ones on Relativity vs. Quantum Theories. I love checking out Michio Kaku, Brian Green, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Hawking, Einsten, and Max Planck. Just to name a few! But these are mostly the easiest and therefore more knowlegeable people I know. These guys know their stuff so well, they can simplify it for the rest of us.
One of them was this site, which explains why there is a discrepancy between the rate mass travels and the rate light travels...which gets a little into the brain esplodin' territory!
But before we go too far...here's a wonderful piece by Michio Kaku - hold on - it's going to be a bumpy ride.
So what's the point of all this - why does it matter?...who cares about other universes, who cares if is uni-verse or multi-verse or schmuniverse - what's that got to do with how my life is now?
Well, one of the things that scientist are beginning to toy with is how the future affects the past. What? Isn't that the other way around? Well, yes in Newton's world it was the other way around. But in this new world of multi-verses - possible parallel universes, time warps, unfolding and folding space and other concepts that are in the BED (brain-exploding department).
These are some of the same concepts that philosophers have been talking about for years. Concepts like believing your goals are already met, affirming from a future point of view as though your goals have already been met. Isn't this the future affecting the present, which is the future's past? Isn't this God having a plan for all of us and we are just now realizing that we can almost prove it with theoretical physics?
These are questions that can cause some to think they are heretical, but the truth is, that it isn't that at all. As Michio Kaku says - we are in a Copernican time right now....a time when we are about to break through into a whole new way of thinking of our world and uni/multi-verses. How exciting is that?
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