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Tomorrow's Science Today (Paperback)
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Tomorrow's Science Today (Paperback)
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Tomorrow's Science Today "If a complete unified theory was
discovered, it would only be a matter of time before it was
digested and simplified ... and taught in schools, at least in
outline. We should then all be able to have some understanding of
the laws that govern the universe and are responsible for our
existence." ("A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking,
Introduction by Carl Sagan - Bantam Press 1988, page 168) So let's
give credit where credit is due and encourage the scientists to
pursue the mathematics and measurements which we may find boring
and tedious, but let's remind them occasionally that maths and
measures are nothing unless they give everyone understanding which
can show the way when scientists get lost in their details and
competing theories. I saw a video ("Hidden Dimensions: Exploring
Hyperspace") in which it was stated that mathematicians are free to
imagine anything while physicists work in a very different
environment constrained by experiment, and that the American
physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988) said scientists work in a
straitjacket. Well, Albert Einstein (1879-1955) said "Imagination
is more important than knowledge" so let's see what happens when we
throw away everyday tradition and conformity, let our imaginations
fly (while trying to stay grounded in science and technology), and
thus release science from its straitjacket This article has its
beginnings in cellular automata (in mathematics and computer
science, collections of cells on a grid that evolve through a
number of discrete time steps according to a set of rules based on
the states of neighbouring cells) and grew into a belief that the
universe (electromagnetism, gravitation, space-time and, as we'll
see, 5th dimensional hyperspace) has a digital (electronic)
foundation. It logically leads to assertions of instant
intergalactic travel, time travel into the past as well as the
future (neither of which can be altered), of unification of the
large-scale universe with small-scale quantum particles, that the
universe is a computer-generated hologram, that everyone who ever
lived can have eternal life and health, that motion is an illusion
caused by the rapid display of digitally generated "frames," that
the entire universe is contained in (or unified with) every one of
its particles, that the terms "computer-generated" and "computer"
do not necessarily refer to an actual machine sending out binary
digits or qubits, that we only possess a small degree of free will,
that humanity could have created our universe and ourselves though
unification physics says a being called God must nevertheless exist
and likewise be Creator, and that Einstein's E=mc2 equation could
be modified for the 21st century, reflecting the digital nature of
reality. Though these things may be unbelievable in 2011, we should
not ignore the possibilities of their being true or of their
showing that reality is indeed digital because they are the logical
product of already demonstrated electrical engineering and trips
into space, science is investigating time travel and unification,
the notion of motion has been suspect to some ever since the
ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (490?-420? B.C.) argued that
motion is absurd, and many religions worldwide speak of God and
have some concept of survival of bodily death.
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