Light Eye
05-19-2004, 01:18 PM
Dear Friends,
Look around you. Look deep. What do you think?
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Be Well, BE LOVE.
David
But then Linde thought of another channel of communication between creator and
creation?the only one possible, as far as he could tell. The creator, by
manipulating the cosmic seed in the right way, has the power to ordain certain
physical parameters of the universe he ushers into being. So says the theory. He
can determine, for example, what the numerical ratio of the electron's mass to
the proton's will be. Such ratios, called constants of nature, look like
arbitrary numbers to us: There is no obvious reason they should take one value
rather than another. (Why, for instance, is the strength of gravity in our
universe determined by a number with the digits 6673?) But the creator, by
fixing certain values for these dozens of constants, could write a subtle
message into the very structure of the universe. And, as Linde hastened to point
out, such a message would be legible only to physicists.
"You might take this all as a joke," he said, "but perhaps it is not entirely
absurd. It may be the explanation for why the world we live in is so weird. On
the evidence, our universe was created not by a divine being, but by a physicist
hacker."
Linde's theory gives scientific muscle to the notion of a universe created by an
intelligent being. It might be congenial to Gnostics, who believe that the
material world was fashioned not by a benevolent supreme being but by an evil
demiurge. More orthodox believers, on the other hand, will seek refuge in the
question, "But who created the physicist hacker?" Let's hope it's not hackers
all the way up.
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Look around you. Look deep. What do you think?
http://slate.msn.com/id/2100715
Be Well, BE LOVE.
David
But then Linde thought of another channel of communication between creator and
creation?the only one possible, as far as he could tell. The creator, by
manipulating the cosmic seed in the right way, has the power to ordain certain
physical parameters of the universe he ushers into being. So says the theory. He
can determine, for example, what the numerical ratio of the electron's mass to
the proton's will be. Such ratios, called constants of nature, look like
arbitrary numbers to us: There is no obvious reason they should take one value
rather than another. (Why, for instance, is the strength of gravity in our
universe determined by a number with the digits 6673?) But the creator, by
fixing certain values for these dozens of constants, could write a subtle
message into the very structure of the universe. And, as Linde hastened to point
out, such a message would be legible only to physicists.
"You might take this all as a joke," he said, "but perhaps it is not entirely
absurd. It may be the explanation for why the world we live in is so weird. On
the evidence, our universe was created not by a divine being, but by a physicist
hacker."
Linde's theory gives scientific muscle to the notion of a universe created by an
intelligent being. It might be congenial to Gnostics, who believe that the
material world was fashioned not by a benevolent supreme being but by an evil
demiurge. More orthodox believers, on the other hand, will seek refuge in the
question, "But who created the physicist hacker?" Let's hope it's not hackers
all the way up.
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