Thursday, September 18, 2008

Freeman Dyson and the Mathmatics of the Universe

Can life survive indefinately in an expanding universe??

Dicen's sphere

Background -- remains mathmetician

Quantum physics -- a tool for describing the world, mathmatics tool. Precise and clear, hard to explain in words.

Religion is a way of life, not a belief

He is a christian, without the theology

He looks at the church as a community, who take care of each other, a true artform , more than a philosophy

God is a mind beyond the scale of our understanding

Religion is the things that people do ..


More about observance, and less about beliefs


So whats the difference between beliefs and ethics??
Religion = lasts over time, lots of tradition

Life doesn't make sense if you don't believe in some sort of purpose

He argues science is compatable with religion --


3 levels of mind
1 - human
2 - sub atomic
3 - macro, universal mind

Science has a restricted frame of application, science doesn't touch questions religion does
Science can't take care of ethics


Dyson spheres -- there is intelligent life out there, they are just not interested in communicating
We should try to connect to alians that do not want to communicate, to search and find all sorts of societies

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