SHOOT: The universe isn't governed only by chance, but by chance and random order. Random order over time can be constructive. Time in a disordered state can, at times, create sufficiently ordered states, of matter, of space and time, to resemble something inexplicable. So it is not chance alone. The temptation is to blame God. No, it is merely the size of everything in relation to us that evolves, and this evolution is not linear. It is not a beginning, middle and end, but a series of overlapping and parallel beginnings, ends and middles. This relativity is hard for us to fathom, even to imagine. But is it better to live in a universe beyond our faculties, or one that we can penetrate with our impenetrable faculties? Humility, and mystery, seems to me to be vital to keep in check human ego and arrogance.
Albert Einstein was born 1879 in Ulm. After graduation in 1900 he worked as a patent clerk in Bern, conducting research in physics in his spare time. In 1905 he published five papers that transformed the course of physics and established his reputation as one of the foremost scientists of his age. Einstein died in 1955. He is best known for the theory of relativity, which states that time, mass and length all change according to velocity. Space and time are a unified continuum, which curves in the presence of mass. Einstein always said that he was a deeply religious man, and his religion informed his science. He rejected the conventional image of God as a personal being, concerned about our individual lives, judging us when we die, intervening in the laws he himself had created to cause miracles, answer prayers and so on. Einstein did not believe in a soul separate from the body, nor in an afterlife of any kind. |
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