Quantum weirdness; Multiworld theory (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, November 01, 2014, 12:11 (3457 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: More pie-in-the-sky nuttiness. Multiple worlds repelling each other. Kastner's one separate layer makes much more sense:-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141030101654.htm-"The team proposes that parallel universes really exist, and that they interact. That is, rather than evolving independently, nearby worlds influence one another by a subtle force of repulsion. They show that such an interaction could explain everything that is bizarre about quantum mechanics."-I can't help agreeing with you, but the quantum world also appears to be nutty. Under “Enzymes use quantum tunnelling” you wrote: “The universe is based on quantum mechanics. Everything at that level is counterintuitive, and that is where God exists, not hiding but not fully accessable in my view."-Previously you have always said he was hiding there, but the fact of the matter is that nobody understands how life could have begun, nobody understands consciousness, nobody understands the quantum world, but you seem to think that by attributing it all to “God”, you solve all the mysteries! What is “God”? All you are saying is that something or the other caused life, consciousness, quantum weirdness, and you're going to call that something “God”. The word is meaningless. Only if you start to load it with attributes does it take on a meaning - and although you always claim that you won't do that, of course you do. You tell us that God is eternal, has always been self-aware, deliberately created the universe and life so that he could produce humans. Tony goes a lot further than you, basing a long list of attributes on his interpretation of ancient texts that you yourself have no faith in. However, both of you are adamant that all the mysteries of life can be solved by setting us an even greater mystery: what IS God? Where did it come from, how did it become conscious, where was it and what did it do before the Big Bang (if the BB ever took place)? “First cause” is no explanation, but an empty formula to get round the impossible questions. Life, consciousness and the quantum world are all counterintuitive, but since they all exist, there has to be an explanation for their existence. Until we find out what it is (and I doubt if we ever will), you and the atheists are stuck: they can't explain life, consciousness or the quantum world, and you can't explain God. As I have said elsewhere, it all comes down to faith.