RJT
09-14-2005, 08:16 PM
I promise I will not bore the board here further than this post (well who knows, might have just a few along the way) as I begin my journey in reading some eminent physicists.
But, already in my first day I found something I thought related to one of my other posts about the fun discussions that would be had in a room filled with eminent scientists and eminent theologians.
From a public lecture “The Beginning of Time” presented by Stephen Hawking:
“…Quantum theory introduces a new idea, that of imaginary time…it is a genuine scientific concept. One can picture it in the following way, One can think of ordinary, real, time as a horizontal line. On the left, one has the past, and on the right, the future. But, there’s another kind of time in the vertical direction. This is called imaginary time…”
From “Concerning the Our Father” Simone Weil in “Waiting for God”:
“…He is our Father who is in heaven…we cannot take a single step towards him. We do not walk vertically. We can only turn our eyes toward him. …we only have to change the direction we are looking.”
But, already in my first day I found something I thought related to one of my other posts about the fun discussions that would be had in a room filled with eminent scientists and eminent theologians.
From a public lecture “The Beginning of Time” presented by Stephen Hawking:
“…Quantum theory introduces a new idea, that of imaginary time…it is a genuine scientific concept. One can picture it in the following way, One can think of ordinary, real, time as a horizontal line. On the left, one has the past, and on the right, the future. But, there’s another kind of time in the vertical direction. This is called imaginary time…”
From “Concerning the Our Father” Simone Weil in “Waiting for God”:
“…He is our Father who is in heaven…we cannot take a single step towards him. We do not walk vertically. We can only turn our eyes toward him. …we only have to change the direction we are looking.”