Thoughts on Buddhism

[Abracadabra]

The unknown science approach that is becoming more and more popular seems silly to me.

By the way RW, are you aware of the 'Black Hole War' that took place between Leonard Susskind and Stephen Hawking? It's a fascinating story of physics and laws of information and entropy.

It was basically about whether or not information could be lost from the universe via a black hole. Susskind won that war, and the solution seems to be that all information that falls into a black hole must also remain on the 'surface' of the event horizon. I realize that this is crazy and hard to comprehend, and I don't personally claim to understand how this works exactly myself.

But the point is that this is science and physics, and it has to be this way for the laws of physics to remain in tact.

From this observation and finding, other cosmologists have since realized that our universe must have a similar property. In other words, all of the information that exists within the 3-D spacetime of the universe, must also exist on a 2-D surface that theoretically exists potentially at the "boundary of the universe" If only at the "boundary of the Big Bang in terms of time" Kind of like the Microwave Background Radiation.

In any case, the idea is that all information of every event that ever took place during the entire history of the universe must be preserved in this way. Kind of like a hologram.

I'm not sure how well-established these ideas are in physics, but they are certainly scientifically based ideas.

Well, just look at how strange these ideas are.

You say: "The unknown science approach that is becoming more and more popular seems silly to me."

But what about the "known" science approach? There are many weird things in science like this that allow for a "Spiritual video library" to exist in terms of physical laws.

In fact, there exist scientists who are seriously proposing that the entire universe is nothing more than a holographic projects of sorts.

So this idea that we are spiritual beings participating in some sort of holographic amusement park, is not all that far fetched.