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So it's conceivable, if God were to exist, he might wonder, I'm eternal, I'm all-powerful, but where did I come from? Laughter Whence then am I? God speaks in a more formal English. Laughter And so one theory is that God was so bored with pondering the puzzle of His own existence that He created the world just to distract himself. But anyway, let's forget about God.
Take God out of the equation: And to a Buddhist, the world is just a whole lot of nothing. It's just a big cosmic vacuity. And we think there's a lot of something out there but that's because we're enslaved by our desires. If we let our desires melt away, we'll see the world for what it truly is, a vacuity, nothingness, and we'll slip into this happy state of nirvana which has been defined as having just enough life to enjoy being dead.
So that's the Buddhist thinking. What are we going to put in that blank? Well, how about science? Science is our best guide to the nature of reality, and the most fundamental science is physics. So maybe physics can fill this blank, and indeed, since about the late s or around , physicists have purported to give a purely scientific explanation of how a universe like ours could have popped into existence out of sheer nothingness, a quantum fluctuation out of the void.
Stephen Hawking is one of these physicists, more recently Alex Vilenkin, and the whole thing has been popularized by another very fine physicist and friend of mine, Lawrence Krauss, who wrote a book called "A Universe from Nothing," and Lawrence thinks that he's given — he's a militant atheist, by the way, so he's gotten God out of the picture. The laws of quantum field theory, the state-of-the-art physics, can show how out of sheer nothingness, no space, no time, no matter, nothing, a little nugget of false vacuum can fluctuate into existence, and then, by the miracle of inflation, blow up into this huge and variegated cosmos we see around us.
Okay, this is a really ingenious scenario. But I've got a big problem with it, and the problem is this: It's a pseudo-religious point of view. Now, Lawrence thinks he's an atheist, but he's still in thrall to a religious worldview. He sees physical laws as being like divine commands.
The laws of quantum field theory for him are like fiat lux, "Let there be light. They can call a world into existence out of nothing. But that's a very primitive view of what a physical law is, right? We know that physical laws are actually generalized descriptions of patterns and regularities in the world. They don't exist outside the world. They don't have any ontic cloud of their own. They can't call a world into existence out of nothingness. That's a very primitive view of what a scientific law is.
And if you don't believe me on this, listen to Stephen Hawking, who himself put forward a model of the cosmos that was self-contained, didn't require any outside cause, any creator, and after proposing this, Hawking admitted that he was still puzzled. He said, this model is just equations.
What breathes fire into the equations and creates a world for them to describe? He was puzzled by this, so equations themselves can't do the magic, can't resolve the puzzle of existence. And besides, even if the laws could do that, why this set of laws? Why quantum field theory that describes a universe with a certain number of forces and particles and so forth? Why not a completely different set of laws? There are many, many mathematically consistent sets of laws. Why not no laws at all? Why not sheer nothingness?
So this is a problem, believe it or not, that reflective physicists really think a lot about, and at this point they tend to go metaphysical, say, well, maybe the set of laws that describes our universe, it's just one set of laws and it describes one part of reality, but maybe every consistent set of laws describes another part of reality, and in fact all possible physical worlds really exist, they're all out there.
We just see a little tiny part of reality that's described by the laws of quantum field theory, but there are many, many other worlds, parts of reality that are described by vastly different theories that are different from ours in ways we can't imagine, that are inconceivably exotic.
Steven Weinberg, the father of the standard model of particle physics, has actually flirted with this idea himself, that all possible realities actually exist. Also, a younger physicist, Max Tegmark, who believes that all mathematical structures exist, and mathematical existence is the same thing as physical existence, so we have this vastly rich multiverse that encompasses every logical possibility.
Now, in taking this metaphysical way out, these physicists and also philosophers are actually reaching back to a very old idea that goes back to Plato.
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I remember that one of the first contacts with me, he warned me that he intended to work with me for a long time, but I should above all seek the teachings of Jesus and the lessons of Allan Kardec and said more than, if one day he, Emmanuel, advise me something that did not agree with the words of Jesus and Kardec, I should stay with Jesus and Kardec, trying to forget it.
Emmanuel proposes the young Xavier three conditions for it to work: Among the many dozens of psychic works of Emmanuel, we highlight the five historical documents, taken from the spiritual plane files, which are authentic literature masterpieces, and show us the birth of Christianity and its gradual adulteration in the first few centuries of the era.
Are the psychic novels based on real facts: This latter work, pages alone would justify the mission psychic Chico Xavier, according to the scholar J. In he began to use the mediumship of selfless medium a new spiritual entity who will sign your posts with the name Andre Luiz. Who does not know, even here in Portugal, the court: It is considered the true reporter from beyond the grave.
We report on a series of 11 books the experience of his passing, the initial difficulties, the reunion with family and acquaintances that preceded the departure to the spiritual plane the observation and study expeditions along the high spirits evolution. These reports start with the already famous book OUR HOMES name of a city of the spirit , now translated into several languages, including Japanese and Esperanto and now in its 40th edition in Portuguese, with , copies published today. Work that would also cause and still causes some controversy.
In this series of articles the human soul is deeply escalpelizada, and where it is confirmed in practice the teachings that Jesus left us two millennia ago and Kardec recalls and expands so well under the guidance of the Spirit of Truth. One day in the future, doctors, psychologists, sociologists, etc. The monumental work of Chico Xavier who considers himself, in his own words: All copyrights were graciously ceded to spiritualists institutions, including the Brazilian Spiritist Federation, and charitable institutions.
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