“OMG! ‘Faith’ and ‘Quantum Physics’ are the SAME thing!” Well Maybe…??, page 7

Since I am a "gawrsh-she-has-no-life-scholar", I'm familiar with the things you're talking about. Soooo....

Originally posted by OldThinker

With ALL that said….here goes!

Implications/Questions?
A) Is there a connection/similarity between faith and material? If so, what?

No. Acts within and of the material are 100% replicable. If I say "I will cut this tree down" and take a chainsaw and cut all the way through it at an angle, it will fall over and go BOOM 100% of the time. Faith isn't replicatable or testable ("if I pray this prayer in this manner wearing these clothes at this time, this acne pimple will disappear within 2 minutes.")

B) Are words the bridge?

Words are the bridge to many concepts. But, if you mean "Can I change the path of the next three bosons by thinking I'm magnetic?" the answer is "no." There are a number of rigorous ways to test this, and the answer is still "no."

C) Is the Lord Jesus the missing ‘substance’ holding all ‘things’ together?

No. (explanation too long to go into right now.)

D) Is there time in eternity? Are past-on relatives ‘waiting’ for us in Heaven?

Depends on how you define eternity.
Not scientifically testable. Near death experiences of all faiths indicate that this may be true for anyone of any faith (and atheists as well.)

E) Is ‘speed’ the key to the infinite? Is it His home?

No. Basically speed is a property (like 'blue').

F) How does the Law of Attraction fit?

Which "law of attraction?" There are several. The one you cited was interpreted in an unusual way.

G) Did Christ ‘slow down’ to be the incarnate?

No... and there seems to be some information missing from your understanding of speed and time.

H) Can we (humans) mimic the creation-theme (on a small scale?)

We create every day in many ways, including creating our perception of the day. Furthermore, these creations evolve (the day starts out well and you learn some new things which change your view of a certain part of the world.)

Probably not what you meant, but in a metaphysical sense, yes.

I) Are the ramifications for ‘creationism’, ID, and evolution here?

Yes. It'll probably never be integrated into creationism because it's counter to several Biblical teachings. ID may incorporate something like "what the bleep do we know" to attempt to make others think it's scientific. On a public teaching scale, perhaps some of it may be taught by some teachers.

To the folks who have studied this and done the math, only a handful believe in it (Roger Penrose) and his belief isn't quite what you've described. I doubt it'll get any more converts because when you take it from the theoretical into the real world, the experiments don't give consistent answers.

J) What other bible verses would add to the dialog?

Why the Bible? It's a book created by people who spent 100 years arguing about it in religious conferences composed of some of the inspirational texts from one culture created over a span of 700 years.

Why not the Mahabdarata? Why not I Ching? why not Confucius? Lao Tzu? Socrates? Plato? Augustine?

Better yet, why not the writings of modern mathematicians and cosmologists?

K) What other secular sources/schools of discipline that would contribute?

A set of good books on math, science, astronomy, geology, and then several books on physics and subatomic particles. Then a course (or several) in quantitative and qualitative research so you know how to set up a question and look for the answer.

I'd also recommend courses in religion (something where you actually have to read a whole book rather than a chapter or verse and analyze it in context of what was going on in the writer's world.) And a course or two in philosophy, particularly discourses about Truth and perception.

I'm not being dismissive of you, but your sources are pretty darn poor (they're making up stuff based on a bad understanding of something.) You wouldn't be able to tell the chaff from the wheat without a better grounding in those fields.

Please don't interpret this as contempt. I see a sincere and questioning mind that has found some darn interesting stuff -- but a mind that doesn't have a background in things like dynamic systems equations and hasn't struggled through a few books on the nature of physics and time (I have.)

I'll give you some podcasts after I log on this evening (if you like podcasts) or link you to some reading material (if you'd rather have that) which can sort of get you up to speed on what's actually said in quantum mechanics and astronomy.

Do you have a format you prefer for your info? I don't do Youtube because the material there is generally such poor quality that it takes forever to find something decent. But I can link videos from universities or podcasts or papers...whichever you'd prefer to have.

Must dash. Sorry for quick and inefficient reply.