In Reply to: Re: Eternity = everything all at once posted by Donny on May 19, 2003 at 19:18:53:
but will all the science, even quantum mechanics, it still takes faith. There is a theorem in quantum physics known as teh Bell theorem. It is actually the result of some mathematical equations as theoretical physicists do. It was eventually used to measure some phenomena without directly observing them. But what the experimentations demonstrated was that it is possible for two different particles which have interacted at a certain point in time, to remain connected and linked in such intimate way that whatever happened to one would also happened to the other. This suggested that observing one particle one could find out what was happening to theother. Pretty intriguing stuff. I have to say that those particles that interacted at a certain time did it under quantic assumptions (meaning, very deep type of interaction - maybe I should say profound interaction instead of deep).
A related phenomenom is "learning", or transmission and reception of knowledge. This is not the same as but is similar to absorbtion of knowledge, which happens when a person just all of the sudden knows something. There is evidence that this happens at the quantum level but it has not been demonstrated. The main indication is thatsome changes in the chemical composition of cells produce changes due to electrical stimulus. Those changes are not understood but they are known to be related to electromagnetic phenomena such as sparks jumping over small surfaces. The big question science would have to anser is why those jumps don't occur when a persons brain is dead and wheere is that original source of the electromagnetical energy. Of course, believers believe it is the soul but then how it dissipates into what adn where? The second law of thermodynamics tells us that energy is only transformed, so...
Too many questions and too few answers but an exciting journey when we have them. How terrible not to have questions or the freedom to ask them.