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Me, I'm a big fan of what guys who know their math say about the very big and the very small, and just bent my mind with what I call YMPP, or Yet More Popularized Physics... specifically Leonard Susskind's The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking To Make The World Safe For Quantum Mechanics.
For the religious, I'd like to dispose of the normal "personal God", "Heaven and Hell," "It's All Just Theory Cuz Its Too Little To See" nonsense...
I'm open to more advanced pondering from a religious POV, but no dumb argument for its own sake, please.
For our mathy guys, I'd like to kick off what I hope will be a discussion of SOME sort with the awe in which I hold both the fuzzier and the more accepted scientific principles currently evolving... I'd love to raise a specific point, but from the outset our only real point is that it all just is, in terms of the physical sciences -- I am, however, in awe of what just is, regardless of any religious flight of fancy.
I'm also struck by the similarity between physical dualities (observer/participant in particular,) and the divide between the objective and the subjective I've discussed here in the past. But that's probably internal to my own point of view.
Finally it was cool to finally have someone explain the uncertainty principle in terms of the "fuzzy focus" wavelength you use to get velocity of a particle and the very high energy wavelength you have to use to pinpoint position, and the very real way that the latter must perturb the object under study. Until I read this particular book, the uncertainty principle seemed like some vague mystical thing. Now it makes a lot more sense.
At any rate I'd love for the physics guys to open up on these topics, assuming that the more Goddy members of our forum agree to tread lightly, myself included.
Dying to see what comes of it.
PFnV
For the religious, I'd like to dispose of the normal "personal God", "Heaven and Hell," "It's All Just Theory Cuz Its Too Little To See" nonsense...
I'm open to more advanced pondering from a religious POV, but no dumb argument for its own sake, please.
For our mathy guys, I'd like to kick off what I hope will be a discussion of SOME sort with the awe in which I hold both the fuzzier and the more accepted scientific principles currently evolving... I'd love to raise a specific point, but from the outset our only real point is that it all just is, in terms of the physical sciences -- I am, however, in awe of what just is, regardless of any religious flight of fancy.
I'm also struck by the similarity between physical dualities (observer/participant in particular,) and the divide between the objective and the subjective I've discussed here in the past. But that's probably internal to my own point of view.
Finally it was cool to finally have someone explain the uncertainty principle in terms of the "fuzzy focus" wavelength you use to get velocity of a particle and the very high energy wavelength you have to use to pinpoint position, and the very real way that the latter must perturb the object under study. Until I read this particular book, the uncertainty principle seemed like some vague mystical thing. Now it makes a lot more sense.
At any rate I'd love for the physics guys to open up on these topics, assuming that the more Goddy members of our forum agree to tread lightly, myself included.
Dying to see what comes of it.
PFnV