RE: The redneck strike again.
June 29, 2014 at 12:00 pm
(This post was last modified: June 29, 2014 at 12:06 pm by Confused Ape.)
(June 29, 2014 at 11:19 am)Rhythm Wrote: Doesn't follow. We have people on these boards that simply do not accept science as an authority. Evolution is a fact, and yet there are plenty who "don't believe in it". The same could be true for any god science "proves".
I see what you mean. If science ever proves that somebody's concept of god really exists there could be atheists and many religious people who refuse to accept it.
(June 29, 2014 at 11:19 am)Rhythm Wrote: "Quantum, this guy said quantum over here! Quick, duck!" I generally pull out the Montoya routine whenever someone starts going on about quantum this and thats, but meh.
Quantum Foam is a genuine scientific concept, not New Age woo. It doesn't prove that Brahman is real, though, because it's dealing with physical reality and Brahman is supposed to transcend physical reality as well as creating it.
Quote:Quantum foam (also referred to as space-time foam) is a concept in quantum mechanics devised by John Wheeler in 1955. The foam is supposed to be conceptualized as the foundation of the fabric of the universe.[1]
Additionally, quantum foam can be used as a qualitative description of subatomic space-time turbulence at extremely small distances (on the order of the Planck length). At such small scales of time and space, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle allows energy to briefly decay into particles and antiparticles and then annihilate without violating physical conservation laws. As the scale of time and space being discussed shrinks, the energy of the virtual particles increases. According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, energy curves space-time. This suggests that—at sufficiently small scales—the energy of these fluctuations would be large enough to cause significant departures from the smooth space-time seen at larger scales, giving space-time a "foamy" character.
Quote:It's impossible to use physical science as a way of researching something which is supposed to transcend physical reality.
(June 29, 2014 at 11:19 am)Rhythm Wrote: Why, again? You responded to the question by way of reassertion.
How are scientists supposed to use physical science to research the transcendent bit of something which is supposed to transcend physical reality as well as creating it? As this bit isn't physical it can't be measured, weighed or even studied via CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
Believing that Brahman is objective reality requires just as much faith as believing in any other deity being objective reality.



