Particle physics is something I will never understand

But when we read your post about La Nuit des Particules (Night of the Particles) at the Grand Rex in Paris, Arnold and I wanted to go but we couldn’t make it because I worked too late that day. Too bad…

Hawking won’t have a lot of friends if he attacks religion. When he says ‘Theology is unnecessary’, everyone who believes in God will turn their back to him and deny his legitimacy.

Without God, people would be afraid of everything. Most people need explanations about everything and all religions give that to them.

Religion is just an illusion, IMHO.

-Meddi

My favorite photo is the one of Hans-Peter Hildebrandt (2)

As for the existence of God, everyone believes in what they want……….

In “The Grand Design” Stephen Hawking postulates that the M-theory may be the Holy Grail of physics…the Grand Unified Theory which Einstein had tried to formulate and later abandoned. It expands on quantum mechanics and string theories.

In my e-book on comparative mysticism is a quote by Albert Einstein: “…most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and most radiant beauty – which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive form – this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of all religion.”

E=mc², Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, is probably the best known scientific equation. I revised it to help better understand the relationship between divine Essence (Spirit), matter (mass/energy: visible/dark) and consciousness (f(x) raised to its greatest power). Unlike the speed of light, which is a constant, there are no exact measurements for consciousness. In this hypothetical formula, basic consciousness may be of insects, to the second power of animals and to the third power the rational mind of humans. The fourth power is suprarational consciousness of mystics, when they intuit the divine essence in perceived matter. This was a convenient analogy, but there cannot be a divine formula.

I’m not an M-Theory expert but I think Hawking is right because the universe is way more complicated than we actually think.

I agree with you Ron, there cannot be a divine formula but since science cannot, as of yet, explain everything, God is sometimes the only way to ‘find’ answers..

M theory or not, believers have the right to believe. And non believers have the right not be believe. Simple. You can’t go against that.

Funny, the post was about art in physics and now it’s about m theory and religion

I bring my two cents to the discussion: what if S.Hawking is wrong? What if the M-Theory is NOT a theory of everything? Then he would like the ‘God believers’, wouldn’t he? Believing in a false God theory?

Darun-Wi, as you probably know dark matter is 25% and dark energy about 75% of the critical density of this Universe. That implies that science can now study only the visible 5%. One of the projects of CERN is to investigate the nature of dark matter and energy.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel physicist, in 1959 invited me to the University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory. He introduced me to mysticism and the universality of the Universe. Chandra once said “God is man’s greatest creation.”

I agree with: “God is man’s greatest creation.” but the question is: could humanity live without a God? I don’t think so….

Hi Ron, thanks for your reply. My interest for dark matter started with an article from Max Dana. Since then I read a lot about dark matter and dark energy. I also believe in mysticism and the universality of the Universe, as well as Hawking probably does but some people are not pleased with his point of view. To say the least.