[Magdalen] She's leaving church

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

And even in the thirties, physicists talked of the necessity that the light
leaving a star millions of light years ago knew that as each photon passed
the eart, some would go one direction in a slot experiment
<http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/John_Gribbin/quantum.htm> while
others the other way, and the two would know somehow what was transpiring
with the other...

This was not something they told the grad students about right out of the
box, sort of like the Rabbis weren't supposed to read Ezekiel until they
were at least forty...


James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:49 AM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> On 03/06/2015 01:11, ME Michaud wrote:
>
>> Um, actually, I pretty much do believe it. The timing's way off,
>> of course, but you have to ask: what *is* a single day in God's
>> time?
>>
>> Our days are defined quite parochially (sunrise/sunset, a single
>> revolution of a small but lovely planet). God's day might be a
>> revolution of the milky way. Or something else.
>>
>
> Going a step further our very concept of time is inextricably linked to a
> succession of events in the physical universe.  Since God is not
> constrained by this universe it follows that "time" is an inappropriate
> concept to use in connection with the divine.  "A thousand ages in thy
> sight are like an evening gone".
>
> Even within the physical universe we can see light from starts that set
> off on its journey to us a very long time ago.  We simply cannot tell what
> the current state of those stars is "now".  Even the sunlight streaming
> through my window left the sun over 8 minutes ago.
>
> Roger
>