So astounding are the facts in this connection that it would seem as though the Creator himself had electronically designed the planet.

Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943)

Connections

18 Comments CherryPie on May 6th 2012

18 Responses to “Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week”

  1. Perhaps he did… Some great Divine computer with the blueprints of the universe on. As long as he’s not running Windows, he should be fine ;)

    Personally, I like the idea that when we figure out exactly what the universe is and why it’s here, the whole of reality will dissolve and a message box will appear saying “LEVEL 2″ …

    Seriously, though, I often think that while science is very good at telling us how things work, its pretty bad at telling us why its all here in the first place… And every scientific theory of creation shares a single interesting feature: they could all have happened before, and multiple times…

    • CherryPie says:

      I like your final paragraph :-)

      Why did it occur in the first place, that is never explained either by science (or religion come to think of it…)

      The scientific theory of creation does lead to the conclusion the thought that creation has happenend more than once.

      I am of the opinion that our existence (in this universe) is a cyle that repeats…

      • Well, the main theory of where the universe and everything in it came from as far as science is concerned is the Big Bang. Scientists freely admit that they can use quantum physics, regular physics and a whole load of observations backed up by mathematical models to work out what the universe was like a fraction of a second after the Big Bang happened. But not what it was like before the Big Bang, if there was anything before the Big Bang or even what caused the Big Bang in the first place. One of the more interesting theories I heard was that our universe exists in some quantum fold stuck at the bottom of a black hole in another universe somewhere – but all this relies on membrane theories and string theories, none of which have ever been proven (as yet). The thought really occurred to me when I was having a wine-fuelled discussion about such topics with a friend in London who is a committed Christian, and as we talked it became apparent that science doesn’t have to preclude the existence of a creator of some kind: just because science can disprove quite a lot of what is written in the Bible, for example, doesn’t mean that some higher conciousness isn’t behind the development of the universe, and possibly – by logical extension – the life that exists within it. Science can explain very well how a sperm and an egg can grow into an adult trillions of times the size of both cells combined; how the loss of mass through nuclear fusion can fuel stars and power our cities, and even how our planets and all the other suns in the galaxy move through the universe, but nowhere does it ever offer up a demonstrable theory offering proof as to the origins of the universe.

        One could make the same argument of religion, of course, but religion relies on faith, and proof denies faith, making it meaningless, so one must always accept a religious theory of creation with an element of faith.

        Until either God appears and tells us how it all started, or science offers us a bit more than fuzzy guesses, I’m open to both possibilities.

        On the subject of cycles, it does seem that the universe is cyclical in nature: the orbits of the planets, the coming and going of the seasons, and the possibility that its all been done before. You might like The Reaper’s take on that…

  2. Claude says:

    How interesting….Great photo, as always, Cherie.:)

  3. Mot definitely an interesting man was our Tesla

  4. Sean Jeating says:

    There does exist an alternative theory about the origin of universe. As – after pretty long and harsh discussions in the scientific world – the Big Bang theory had just been accepted as doctrine, to this alternative theory happened, though, what is no singularity: It was shot down by the opinion leaders on this matter, and thus was not widely discussed, at least not in public.
    It’s “Father”: Professor Dr. Wolfgang Priester (1924-2005), renowned Astro-Physicist who f.e. has his merits about the cosmologic constant Lamda (Einstein’s “biggest folly”) which – relabelled by Mike Turner – meanwhile is better known as “dark energy”.
    Under the terms of Mr. Priester’s “Big Bounce” theory, according to which – contrary to the Big Bang theory – time and space existed before matter, a creator would have had to act at minus infinite.
    In an eternally existing world, a God ergo would have had to fill the space with the ground state of the quantum vacuum, and carried out his act of creation in a bubble of a diameter of 10 to the power of minus 25 centimetres.
    I am sure reflecting on this for one or two winks of the eye, together we will fast as the wind sweep towards the essential inheritent interior essence which is hidden in the root of the kernel of everything: Omnium.
    The Peace of the Night!

  5. james higham says:

    That’s very much my concept of what happened.

  6. Ha… Some big theory huh?
    Tell me, do you know why we exist?

  7. Andrewman says:

    Humans… Sigh… So silly. They know nothing.

  8. Archie Dean says:

    That much remains unknown to us does not
    make us as a species knowledgeless or stupid.

    The road to understanding is a long one. This
    fact depresses some, motivates others. That
    we are even aware that there are such problems
    to be solved makes us, in my view at least, highly
    intelligent.

    • CherryPie says:

      My personal belief is that life is for learning and the people who realise that are wise.

      But there are people who do not realise that life is for learning and have stopped learning at the first door.

      On that basis I am not sure if that means as human race we are intelligent or that we collectively need to do better…