Author: KB
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In the Dining Room of The School of Life
Having sniffed around all the interesting things they’ve been doing since they started 8 months or so ago, I finally went to an event by The School of Life. And very wonderful it was too. Taking over the top floor of the excellent Marylebone restaurant The Providores, we arrived and were sat deliberately with people…
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Theology and the New Physics [6] | Heaven Is A [Parallel] Place [not quite] On Earth
Just a final thought to wrap up this series of posts reflecting on some theological implications of the new physics: as I mentioned, one implication of the Many Worlds Interpretation appears to be that of eternal life. The concept of Quantum Suicide suggests that at each ‘quantum moment’ I might die in one universe –…
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A Poem in Five Minutes Between Bells
A Poem in Five Minutes Between Bells In these few moments after the silence grows from the stilling clanger and before the pulsing switch-gear of the restless clock brings again noise and movement, I will sit. I will take this time, set it out, as on a tray and arrange its pieces and make something:…
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Theology and the New Physics [5] | Many Worlds
New Physics [1] | New Physics [2] | New Physics [3] | New Physics [4] The idea that an external observer was required to ‘collapse the wavefunction’ of reality obviously didn’t sit well with physics, as it seemed to require a ‘big’ external observer to make the universe real. Physicists didn’t like that one bit,…
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Theology and the New Physics [4] – Reality is a Collapsed Wavefunction
New Physics [1] | New Phyiscs [2] | New Physics [3] In the previous post I extended the argument that it is impossible for a person in a n-dimensional universe to observe with any proper perspective an (n+k)-dimensional universe, to propose that the reverse is also true: an observer in a higher dimensional space can…
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Theology and the New Physics [3] | Engaging The Maze
New Physics [1] | New Physics [2] In the previous two posts I’ve been trying to explore some of the implications that the ‘new physics’ might have on our theology. It is worth emphasising that I strongly believe that the new physics must have an impact on our theology. If it, or indeed any new…