Richard Feynman
- From: "Jong Kim" <rhl71@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:14:02 -0700
June 27, 2007
Professor John Wheeler,
I emailed you last year several times, from September to November,
concerning correct physics and the existence of God or the Supreme Creator,
and now I'd like to discuss your celebrated student, Richard Feynman.
The following Usenet discussion originated from a discussion of the Rev.
Billy Graham, which then took a turn to the late Richard Feynman, and I
posted on June 25 to alt.atheism the following, that includes a revelation
of Jesus Christ on the fate of Richard Feynman. In this email, statements
intended for you are incorporated into the original Usenet post.
"Cary Kittrell" <cary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Jong Kim" <rhl71@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"RetroProphet" <RetroProphet_mem...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
regarding my post titled "Billy Graham":
This is one of the most pretentious and bombastic things
I have ever read.
"What do you care what other people think?"
~~Richard P. Feynman, Nobel Laureate (Physics, 1965)
Actually, it was Feynman's wife, poor doomed Arline,
who asked that question.
I'll take your word for it.
You do realize, do you not, that Feynman described
himself as "an avowed atheist"?
-- cary
Previously, I had only known that Feynman was listed an atheist in
Wikipedia. And that he had inexplicably gainsaid the Hamiltonian
principle of least action in his illuminating 1965 Nobel lecture:
To summarize, when I was done with this, as a physicist I had gained
two things. One, I knew many different ways of formulating classical
electrodynamics, with many different mathematical forms. I got to know
how to express the subject every which way. Second, I had a point of view -
the overall space-time point of view - and a disrespect for the Hamiltonian
method of describing physics.
I would like to interrupt here to make a remark. The fact that
electrodynamics can be written in so many ways - the differential equations
of Maxwell, various minimum principles with fields, minimum principles
without fields, all different kinds of ways, was something I knew, but I
have never understood. It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws
of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are
not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling
you can show the relationship. An example of that is the Schrodinger
equation and the Heisenberg formulation of quantum mechanics. I don't know
why this is - it remains a mystery, but it was something I learned from
experience. There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't
look at all like the way you said it before. I don't know what the reason
for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of
nature. A thing like the inverse square law is just right to be represented
by the solution of Poisson's equation, which, therefore, is a very different
way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it
before. I don't know what it means, that nature chooses these curious forms,
but maybe that is a way of defining simplicity. Perhaps a thing is simple if
you can describe it fully in several different ways without immediately
knowing that you are describing the same thing.
....
I don't think we have a completely satisfactory relativistic
quantum-mechanical model, even one that doesn't agree with nature,
but, at least, agrees with the logic that the sum of probability of all
alternatives has to be 100%. Therefore, I think that the renormalization
theory is simply a way to sweep the difficulties of the divergences of
electrodynamics under the rug. I am, of course, not sure of that.
This completes the story of the development of the space-time view of
quantum electrodynamics. I wonder if anything can be learned from it.
I doubt it. ... The path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics was
useful for guessing at final expressions and at formulating the general
theory of electrodynamics in new ways - although, strictly it was not
absolutely necessary.
....
We are struck by the very large number of different physical viewpoints and
widely different mathematical formulations that are all equivalent to one
another. The method used here, of reasoning in physical terms, therefore,
appears to be extremely inefficient. On looking back over the work, I can
only feel a kind of regret for the enormous amount of physical reasoning and
mathematical re-expression which ends by merely re-expressing what was
previously known, although in a form which is much more efficient for the
calculation of specific problems. Would it not have been much easier to
simply work entirely in the mathematical framework to elaborate a more
efficient expression? This would certainly seem to be the case, but it must
be remarked that although the problem actually solved was only such a
reformulation, the problem originally tackled was the (possibly still
unsolved) problem of avoidance of the infinities of the usual theory.
Therefore, a new theory was sought, not just a modification of the old.
Although the quest was unsuccessful, we should look at the question of the
value of physical ideas in developing a new theory.
Many different physical ideas can describe the same physical reality. Thus,
classical electrodynamics can be described by a field view, or an action at
a distance view, etc. Originally, Maxwell filled space with idler wheels,
and Faraday with fields lines, but somehow the Maxwell equations themselves
are pristine and independent of the elaboration of words attempting a
physical description. The only true physical description is that describing
the experimental meaning of the quantities in the equation - or better, the
way the equations are to be used in describing experimental observations.
This being the case perhaps the best way to proceed is to try to guess
equations, and disregard physical models or descriptions.
~~Richard Feynman
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-lecture.html
No. Entirely true mathematical science is founded on correct physical models
described by mathematics, which is not reality in itself but a language that
facilitates comprehension of reality, when properly used.
On the other hand, to his undergraduate audience at Caltech, Feynman
once said (just a few years before his Nobel lecture):
When I was in high school, my physics teacher -- whose name was
Mr. Bader -- called me down one day after physics class and said,
'You look bored; I want to tell you something interesting.' Then he told
me something that I found absolutely fascinating, and have, since then,
always found fascinating ... the principle of least action.
~~The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
In the physics world, mathematically speaking, Economy of Heaven is
known as the principle of least/stationary action, which is the mathematical
principle of optimization that accurately describes *ALL* operations of
Nature, saith the Lord. (This revelation received on June 11, 2007.)
Yea, efficiency is one of the defining characteristics of Nature, God's
creation.
Mr. Wheeler, I think you already know that William Rowan Hamilton often
meditated on metaphysics, or what I would call spiritual things, while
working out his mathematics, such as the quaternions, his reformulation
of the Euler-Lagrangian dynamics (least action), and no doubt in many
other scientific matters. James Clerk Maxwell was arguably even more
spiritually minded and totally disagreed with the renascent theory of
Evolution, though he did not loudly voice his opposition. I declare, as
Apostle of the One Mighty and Strong, who is Art Bulla, that theology
indeed circumscribes science. And that, it is by the inspiration of the
Almighty, expressly given or otherwise, that great developments in
mathematics, science and engineering come to pass. Let us all give
all credit and honor and glory unto the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and
of Jacob, yea even the Supreme Creator and Being, whom the Prophet
and Apostle Art Bulla has beheld (on Dec. 29, 1969) in the manner of the
Ancients, and Art Bulla's testimony of the Father and the Son and the third
heaven I bear witness by the Holy Ghost given me.
Going back more directly to that portion of Feynman's 1965 Nobel lecture
quoted above: Some equations, like those of the inverse square 'law' and of
quantum mechanics, are examples of successful 'guessing' (though not
a haphazard one) due to agreements with empirical observations, but if they
fail to provide the underlying physical reasons, such theories remain less
than satisfactory. The complete Maxwell electrodynamics (based on the
correct assumption that aether does exist -- all 20 equations), disregarded
by most physicists now, is the most successful and satisfactory physical
theory that has been conceived in the mind and heart of man (and I doubt
that is complete) thus far. Feynman's inexplicable contradictions
demonstrated in the above quote, to me, are a manifestation of a mind
that has spiritually erred, as brilliant as he was:
44 ... all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things
that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the
planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme
Creator.
45 And yet do ye go about, leading away the hearts of this people,
testifying unto them there is no God? And yet will ye deny against all these
witnesses? ...
(Book of Mormon | Alma 30:44 - 45)
So, I had previously known that Feynman was at times emotionally opposed
or at best ambivalent to the Principle of Economy of Heaven, even though
his fame is based largely upon a successful mathematical application of it.
Journal of Discourses, Vol.1, Pg.203, Brigham Young, April 6, 1852:
The Millennium consists in this--every heart in the Church and Kingdom of
God being united in one; the Kingdom increasing to the overcoming of
everything opposed to the economy of heaven, and Satan being bound, and
having a seal set upon him. All things else will be as they are now, we
shall eat, drink, and wear clothing. Let the people be holy, and the earth
under their feet will be holy. Let the people be holy, and filled with the
Spirit of God, and every animal and creeping thing will be filled with
peace; the soil of the earth will bring forth in its strength, and the
fruits thereof will be meat for man.
10 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of
the holy [is] understanding.
(Old Testament | Proverbs 9:10)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/archive/feynman/index_textonly.shtml
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Richard Feynman was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and
original thinkers of the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum
electrodynamics, and it was for this work that he won the Nobel Prize in
1965.
In 1981, he gave Horizon a candid interview, talking about many things close
to his heart.
....
Richard Feynman:
You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not
knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have
answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible
beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm
not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know
anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and
what the question might mean.
I might think about it a little bit and if I can't figure it out, then I go
on to something else, but I don't have to know an answer, I don't feel
frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious Universe
without having any purpose, which is the way it really is so far as I can
tell. It doesn't frighten me.
....
The original reason to start the project, which was that the Germans were a
danger, started me off on a process of action which was to try to develop
this first system at Princeton and then at Los Alamos, to try to make the
bomb work. All kinds of attempts were made to redesign it to make it a worse
bomb and so on. It was a project on which we all worked very, very hard, all
co-operating together. And with any project like that you continue to work
trying to get success, having decided to do it.
But what I did - immorally I would say - was not to remember the reason that
I said I was doing it, so that when the reason changed, because Germany was
defeated, not the singlest thought came to my mind at all about that, that
that meant now that I have to reconsider why I am continuing to do this. I
simply didn't think, okay?
....
The only reaction that I remember - perhaps I was blinded by my own
reaction - was a very considerable elation and excitement, and there were
parties and people got drunk and it would make a tremendously interesting
contrast, what was going on in Los Alamos at the same time as what was going
on in Hiroshima. I was involved with this happy thing and also drinking and
drunk and playing drums sitting on the hood of, the bonnet of, a Jeep and
playing drums with excitement running all over Los Alamos at the same time
as people were dying and struggling in Hiroshima.
I had a very strong reaction after the war of a peculiar nature - it may be
from just the bomb itself and it may be for some other psychological
reasons, I'd just lost my wife or something. But I remember being in New
York with my mother in a restaurant, immediately after, and thinking about
New York, and I knew how big the bomb in Hiroshima was, how big an area it
covered and so on, and I realised from where we were - I don't know, 59th
Street - that to drop one of the 34th Street, it would spread all the way
out here and all these people would be killed and all the things would be
killed.
And there wasn't only one bomb available, but it was easy to continue to
make them, and therefore that things were sort of doomed because already it
appeared to me - very early, earlier than to others who were more
optimistic - that international relations and the way people were behaving
were no different than they had ever been before and that it was just going
to go on the same way as any other thing and I was sure that it was going,
therefore, to be used very soon.
So I felt uncomfortable, and thought, really believed, that it was silly: I
would see people building a bridge and I would say "they don't understand."
I really believed that it was senseless to make anything because it would
all be destroyed very soon anyway, but they didn't understand that and I had
this very strange view of any construction I would see, I would always think
how foolish they are to try to make something. So I was really in a kind of
depressive condition.
http://www.theinfidels.org/zunb-richardpfeynman.htm
"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's
not why we do it."
"God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain
those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how
something works, you get some laws which you're taking away from God; you
don't need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So
therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven't figured
that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't
believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live
to a certain length of time -- life and death -- stuff like that. God is
always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I
don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have
been figured out."
"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring" (last words).
~~Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman is a son of perdition, saith the Lord.
(Received on June 25, 2007.)
Clearly the Lord God of Israel is no respecter of persons, desiring that ye
atheists be warned of your grievous offence against Him. Be ye sober and
repent.
Personally, I am speaking of the natural man in me, I feel Feynman
was much less hypocritical than Newton who denied the Godhood of Jesus
Christ, and besides the former was courageous in his investigation of the
1986 Challenger disaster and was a gracious physics teacher to both graduate
students and undergraduates. Now I can't help but assume that Isaac Newton
really must be a son of perdition, and even to the natural man in me this
makes sense if true, but in the case of Richard Feynman I am sorry, because
for some reason his narcissistic streaks and self-promotions don't offend
me. I'd say his depth of thought manifested in his presentations many times
and his peculiar charisma have something to do with that. He was also
against psychiatry, so I felt there were some positives, but the will of
Christ must be done.
http://www.theinfidels.org/zunb-richardpfeynman.htm
According to his sister, Dr. Joan Feynman, Richard Feynman's last words
were "This dying is boring."
7 Yea, and wo unto him that shall say at that day, to get gain, that there
can be no miracle wrought by Jesus Christ; for he that doeth this shall
become like unto the son of perdition, for whom there was no mercy,
according to the word of Christ!
(Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 29:7)
1 The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are corrupt, they
have done abominable works, [there is] none that doeth good.
(Old Testament | Psalms 14:1)
1 The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. Corrupt are they, and
have done abominable iniquity: [there is] none that doeth good.
(Old Testament | Psalms 53:1)
1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his
handywork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
3 [There is] no speech nor language, [where] their voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end
of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which [is] as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, [and] rejoiceth as a
strong man to run a race.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the
ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
7 The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of
the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple.
(Old Testament | Psalms 19:1 - 7)
SECTION 43.
REVELATION ON THE SECOND DEATH
Destruction of the spirit in hell. Promise of translation.
Received Spring, 1982, Archdale, N.C.
1 Thus saith the Lord, Yea, there is that second death which pertaineth unto
the destruction of the spirit of man in that hell spoken of, for it is that
spirit shall return unto the native element from which it was formed or
begotten by me in that day, saith the Lord God.
2 And it is that this death cometh upon all those who deny me in this day,
saith the Lord God.
3 And it is that this death cometh upon all those who deny me and persist
therein and who will not repent, neither can they, saith the Lord God of
Israel who it is that doth speak unto thee, O man, whom I the Lord God have
created in mine own image, even the image of mine Only Begotten Son have I
created thee.
4 For it is that these are they who have denied the Holy Ghost and for whom
there is no salvation.
5 And the resurrection shall come upon all but these who are sons of
perdition (a), and the end thereof no man knoweth save he or she shall be
made a partaker thereof, and the height or the depth or the misery thereof
no man knoweth, nevertheless I the Lord God show it by vision unto many and
shut it up straightway again.
6 And all who deny these things, saith the Lord, shall partake of that
second death and they shall not escape my wrath which shall be poured out
upon them that they be utterly annihilated back to the native element from
which they are formed.
7 For all, saith the Lord, who deny these Revelations which I the Lord God
have caused to be put into the world as a witness of me shall deny the
Spirit and shall not be redeemed in the resurrection but shall go away into
that lake of fire with the devil and his angels and there their torment is
as a flame.
8 For mine anger, saith the Lord shall even be spent upon them, in my
terrible fury and might which cannot be stopped by man in the flesh, and
their worm dieth not, and the flame thereof ascendeth up forever and is not
quenched until they die, saith the Lord, even the Second Death, according to
that torment of which hath been written.
9 For I the Lord thy God shall not be mocked by them who are under my feet
in that day that the earth shall be redeemed, even from the fall thereof.
10 Even so, beware how thou holdest the oracles of God! For it must be unto
this generation, saith the Lord on the one hand, even as it is one the
other, even Eternal Life, and the fruits thereof, or Death and its portion
on the other, and ye of this generation are free before me, saith the Lord,
to choose, either life in my presence, or the second death in the presence
of him whom ye served deliciously, even that devil spoken of.
11 And if it is that ye hearken, saith the Lord, and are obedient unto my
servant in these things which he shall command thee in my name, saith the
Lord, by the Authority Of The Holy Priesthood Which Is After The Order Of
Melchizedec, then it is that the second death shall have no power over thee.
12 And it is that if ye are obedient, saith the Lord, in all things, then it
is that ye shall be redeemed also from the fall and dwell with me and my
angels in regions of bliss and light forever and ever.
13 And it is that the first death, which is the death of the body which is
physical, shall not have power over thee at all.
14 For it is that ye shall become quickened by me and by my power, saith the
Lord, which power is after the Order of an Endless Life.
15 For I the Lord thy God am the creator and Father of all life and all life
is in me, that thy body, O man, is changed and quickened that it shall never
die, if it be that ye are obedient unto me through him whom I have appointed
and ordained unto this power through the ministration of messengers or
angels from my presence, saith the Lord God of Israel, as anciently.
16 And this is according to the pattern of that which I the Lord God did
unto Enoch and the City thereof as recorded in the eleventh chapter of the
Book of Hebrews by the hand of my servant Paul, who is now with me, saith
the Lord, in the might and power of my glory which is beyond the mind of man
to comprehend in the fulness thereof.
17 Even so. Amen.
(a) D&C 76:37-39.
Revelations of Jesus Christ 43:1-17 (received by Art Bulla)
Journal of Discourses, Vol.8, Pg.129, Brigham Young, July 22, 1860:
My brother Joseph, before "Mormonism" came to us, was a man of sad heart,
seeking to find in the Bible the principles of eternal life. He once said
to me, "Brother Brigham, there are no Bible Christians upon the face of the
earth, and I do not see any possible escape for the human family. According
to the writings of the Old and New Testaments, all must go to perdition." I
do not suppose that he had a smile on his countenance for years.
15 For they who believe in change, or evolution as it is known among men,
shall be damned and burned at my coming, while those whose hearts are turned
even unto the Fathers according to the truth, which varies not, shall be
saved upon eternal principles, and obtain heaven which is eternal, and dwell
forever with them, the Fathers, where there is no clash in doctrine, saith
the Lord, for they, even they my Sons, see perfectly, even with the same
mind, and understanding, even eye to eye as it is written when the Lord
shall bring again Zion.
16 Thus the Fathers have been saved according to the same gospel which must
save thee, O man, and upon the same principles which are consistent, which
is the light, even the same light that enlighteneth thy eyes, saith the Most
High God, even the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Art Bulla, whom ye know
not, Yea but I know him, saith the Lord, and have ordained that he shall
bear rule over thee, forever and ever, as mine anointed.
17 While they, even they who believe in change, shall they not die, and be
dissolved back into the dust that they lose their identities?
18 For they are liars and are sons of the father of lies, even perdition,
and have denied the truth.
19 For they have denied the light and they have denied the spirit of
revelation found within my servant that they crucify the Lord God of Israel
afresh.
20 For this is denial of the Holy Ghost, yea, even thy sciences are
organized according to this blasphemy, and are based upon the lie that all
things which are eternal are denied by them, that there is no absolute
truth.
21 And thus they have denied the Holy Ghost, for I hate them, saith the
Lord, and they shall die the second death for they shall be ground to dust,
that they lose even their identities, for this is death a second time, saith
the Lord God.
22 For I the Lord God am a man of battles, and am a man whom ye hate O
benighted fool, and I the Lord delight in the battle, and the song and the
fury thereof, which shall be unleashed upon these mine enemies who deny that
I am.
23 For they shall know to their torment that I am, when it is that they
behold my terrible might, saith the God of the Fathers.
24 For who can stand before the God of Israel? yea for his might is above
the earth in the might and glory and honor and power thereof, yea, even that
the mountains flow down from His presence.
Revelations of Jesus Christ 159:15-24 (received by Art Bulla)
157 And thus the meek shall inherit the earth, for the meek they, even they
are resurrected to possess it, and the devil hath no power, and thus they
who be with him possess nothing.
158 For they have no bodies, and this is his punishment, saith the Lord, for
death is his end and they are cast into outer darkness along with many of
this generation, saith the Lord, if they repent not and believe that I have
sent another unto them even as them of old.
159 And there are missionaries even now in the world of spirits preparing
the sons of men for the resurrection.
160 For these have not denied the Holy Ghost which attitude is fashionable
among this generation, saith the Lord.
161 And the height and depth of the suffering of them who deny the Holy
Ghost no man knoweth save he shall be made a partaker thereof, for it doth
require millenia for the spirit to die and be ground back down to its native
element from which it was begotten, and this by the devil and his angels who
are mighty to the destruction of men, and they are without hope having
crucified mine Only Begotten unto themselves afresh.
162 And this fate cometh upon all of this generation who receive not my
gosple, whether it be Billy Graham, or the Pope, saith the Lord, for they
were given much, and where much is given much also is required, even
obedience to mine anointed and diligence in keeping his commandments which I
the Lord shall give him.
163 And the rest of the vision of the resurrection of the dead is contained
within that volume of scripture which I the Lord God did grant unto the
people of that generation through the mouth of my servant Joseph Smith, who
is even now with me, saith the Lord, in the might of my power as a witness
against that generation who killed him in that day, that the foundation of
Zion should even be laid.
164 Therefor cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils,
saith the Lord.
Revelations of Jesus Christ 3:157-164 (received by Art Bulla)
Mr. Wheeler, do not make the error, saith the Lord thy God, of thy protege
Richard Feynman.
(Received on June 26, 2007.)
26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose
his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
(New Testament | Matthew 16:26)
Update on John Archibald Wheeler, by Ken Ford, Ph.D.
(Princeton Physics News, vol. 2, issue 1, winter 2006, p. 6):
John is much taken with the idea that evolution may not be just a feature
of biology. He wonders whether physical laws and physical constants evolve,
too, through a process of natural selection-whether what we see around us
and the rules that govern our world have not been here "from everlasting to
everlasting" but have been shaped by evolution.
14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou
[art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy
belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
(Old Testament | Genesis 3:14)
"They came here, organized the raw material, and arranged in their order the
herbs of the field, the trees, the apple, the peach, the plum, the pear, and
every other fruit that is desirable and good for man; the seed was brought
from another sphere, and planted in this earth. The thistle, and thorn, the
brier, and the obnoxious weed did not appear until after the earth was
cursed."
~~Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses Vol. 1 (April 9, 1852)
From the original stock preserved by Noah and his three sons, the LordGod of Noah and Melchizedek had effected the varieties of species,
saith the Lord.
(Received on June 11, 2007.)
This was prior to subsequent hybridizations, due in large part to man's
meddlings.
19 ¶ Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a
diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall
a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
(Old Testament | Leviticus 19:19)
16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the
potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not?
or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no
understanding?
(Old Testament | Isaiah 29:16)
Update on John Archibald Wheeler, by Ken Ford, Ph.D.
(Princeton Physics News, vol. 2, issue 1, winter 2006, p. 6):
Why 3 + 1 dimensions? he asks. Why not more? There is no law against
more. Is the dimensionality of space and time itself a product of natural
selection? And even more importantly: How does something arise from nothing?
He is still fascinated with quantum mechanics and its interpretation. He
ponders the question whether we humans actually create the laws by our
observations, in the way that a magician creates illusion-that what we
observe around us is no more real than what we observe at a magic show. On
his wall hangs a sweatshirt with the logo: What part of quantum theory don't
you understand? He never fails to point it out to his visitors, while asking
with a laugh: How do you like my sweatshirt?
http://www.physics.princeton.edu/www/jh/newsletter.pdf
51 And it is in this manner that Satan with his mists of darkness and his
retarding of the human mind, and lies hath deceived you, O man, as
anciently, by the traditions of your fathers which apostatized from mine
ordinances and broke my new and everlasting covenant which I the Father
did make with them.
Revelations of Jesus Christ 24:51 (received by Art Bulla)
James Clerk Maxwell (The Life of, p. 191, 1882):
11 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, 22d Nov. 1876.
....
Now the aether or material substance which fills all the interspace
between world and world, without a gap or flaw of 1/100000 inch anywhere,
and which probably penetrates through all grosser matters is the largest,
most uniform and apparently most permanent object we know, and we are
therefore inclined to suppose that it existed before the formation of the
systems of gross matter which now exist within it, just as we suppose
the sea older than the individual fishes in it.
....
J. CLERK MAXWELL.
http://www.sonnetsoftware.com/bio/maxbio.pdf
116 And behold, this hath been done on other worlds which have been created
by the Power of the Most High and organized from the chaotic element.
Revelations of Jesus Christ 5:116 (received by Art Bulla)
3 ... things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
(New Testament | Hebrews 11:3)
Journal of Discourses, Vol.2, Pg.184, Brigham Young, February 18, 1855:
"There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them
understanding," and many who do not hold the Priesthood have ideas which are
really true, yet they are not always certain whether they are true or not.
Title: The discovery of the positron
Authors: Demaria, M.; Russo, A.
Affiliation: Rome Univ. (Italy).
Publication: Unknown
Publication Date: 06/1985
Category: Atomic and Molecular Physics
Origin: STI
....
Abstract
The contribution of Dirac, Anderson, Blackett, and Occhialini to the
discovery of the positron are discussed. It is argued that the positron was
suggested by Dirac, discovered by Anderson, and confirmed by Blackett and
Occhialini.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985dipo.rept.....D
James Clerk Maxwell (Discourse on Molecules, Sep. 1873):
It is only when we contemplate, not matter in itself, but the form in which
it actually exists, that our mind finds something on which it can lay hold.
....
But that there should be exactly so much matter and no more in every
molecule of hydrogen is a fact of a very different order. We have here
a particular distribution of matter-a collocation-to use the expression of
Dr. Chalmers, of things which we have no difficulty in imagining to have
been arranged otherwise.
http://www.sonnetsoftware.com/bio/maxbio.pdf
The positron (as opposed to the electron) is a related, saith the Lord,
but different conformation or collocation of the anisotropic aether.
(Received on June 12, 2007.)
conformation, n.
the way a thing is formed, its structure.
collocation, n.
placing together or side by side.
Maurice Allais (About the Aether Concept, 2003, translated from the French):
Atoms, particles, photons are but (local) singularities of the aether
which remain to be explained by differential equations.
Paul Dirac:
Is there an Aether?
....
We must make some profound alterations in our theoretical ideas of
the vacuum. It is no longer a trivial state, but needs elaborate
mathematics for its description.
....
Thus with the new theory of electrodynamics we are rather forced
to have an aether.
P. A. M. DIRAC
St. John's College,
Cambridge. Oct. 9.
*1* Proc. Roy. Soc., [A, 209, 291 (1951)].
~~NATURE November 24, 1951 Vol. 168, Pgs. 906-907
But James Clerk Maxwell had in the previous century already developed an
experimentally validated theory of electrodynamics that is based on the
reality of aether, for the world to savor and enjoy. I am happy for Dirac
that he was at least honest to this extent.
Maurice Allais (About the Aether Concept, 2003, translated from the French):
Nature doesn't leave any room to chance and all is determined by cause
and effect relationships. What's called hazard is nothing but a
representation of our ignorance. But the permanent nature of the statistical
laws shows the existence of a hidden order.
36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and
lose his own soul?
37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
(New Testament | Mark 8:36 - 37)
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matrhorn at princeton dot edu
--
Jong Kim, Apostle of the One Mighty and Strong
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