Quote from marketsurfer:
hello,
have any of you atheists read the december 2002 issue of WIRED ?? it has an excellent treatise on science and religion titled "the new convergence". i would like to hear your opinions on this article. it has numerous quotes from nobel prize winning men of science---- for example chris de duve "there is no sense that atheism is enforced or established by science" your reasoned opinions after reading the article are much apprieciated.
best,
surf
I just read this issue at the local barnes & noble
the article that had me at rapt attention was the one that discussed the universe as a supercomputer
The coolest idea there imo was the idea of "Omega Point"
The Big Crunch
The end of the universe..
It coincided with my own non-linear time chicken/egg philosophy.
The idea in a nutshell is that at the moment of the Big Crunch there is infinite ENERGY and infinite COMPUTATION
That the universe as a computer could compute and manifest EVERYTHING that "happened" (in a retro-causative sense)
The Omega Point is similar to Terrance McKenna's idea of the "Trancendental object at the end of time.."
So which came first?
The Alpha or Omega? The Big Bang or The Big Crunch? The Chicken, The Cracking Eggshell, or The Feather-Flying Vigorous Insemination Process? (chicken fu*cking).
I would wager that they are all happening simultaneously.
Right Now
That what we are experiencing now is just "reverberations" between the Alpha and Omega points. Forward time / events reverberating against backward flowing ones, and vice versa. (including feedback loops through time - past influences future, future influences past)
Or, as one of my physicist friends is fond of saying: "the universe just APPEARS CAUSAL for our benefit.."
