Showing posts with label Quantum Physics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quantum Physics. Show all posts

Friday, January 18, 2013

Debunking Christianity: Craig, the Kalam, and Quantum Indeterminacy


So what happens when Physics points to evidence that the Universe - time and space - has a beginning? People who desire to suppress the knowledge of God available to them come up with videos like the following.


They also write articles like Jonathan Pierce's article:
Debunking Christianity: Craig, the Kalam, and Quantum Indeterminacy

They cannot accept that the universe (as we know it)  is eternal. They are left with trying to show that quantum mechanics allows for material objects to pop into existence out of nothing. Even if we can show that things that "banged" during the "Big Bang" popped into existence due to the rules of Quantum Mechanics, it still leads to more questions than answers. If we ever do figure out the "how?" it tells us nothing about "why?" It does not mean that there is no God. It tells us how God did it.

The thing is that  I do disagree with Dr William Lane Craig on a few things. Refuting him doesn't refute God. Craig's critics fail to refute him but that doesn't mean he's right about everything he says.  For example. I agree with the video that Craig is wrong about in his philosophical reasoning against infinities, but we don't need that to establish that the universe has beginning.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Fascinating: Making Sense of a Visible Quantum Object [Video]

This a pretty awesome and short lecture on Quantum Physics.

In a breakthrough experiment, Aaron O’Connell has blurred that distinction by creating an object that is visible to the unaided eye, but provably in two places at the same time. In the following video presentation he suggests an intriguing way of thinking about the result.

I thought that O'Connell gave a good background on the problems he was studying and what his results were. I admit that the problems he explained that always bothered him about Quantum Mechanics have always bothered me. Of course his findings brings up more questions than it answer - one of the things I love most about since.

It is exciting because such research can lead to true technology previously dreamed of on Star Trek - Faster than light travel, matter/energy transportation, and matter replication. All kinds of doors are open.





Fascinating: Making Sense of a Visible Quantum Object [Video]
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