5.1 Truth and Reality

I am going to gather seemingly unanswerable questions under 'Deep Truth'. They are often intuitive like "Why are we here?".. but at the end of every long line of tough scientific work they are there. The story of our knowledge of gravity is a good example. Until Isaac Newton it was a vaguely defined 'force'. After Newton published the Principia we knew it was an attracting acceleration caused by mass. Even after Albert Einstein's curved space, Newton's Law still worked for space travel. Then came the accelerating expansion of the whole universe, which everyone knew had to be slowing down didn't it? So what was causing the acceleration? We invented 'dark energy' to make gravity repulsive on a very large scale.. and we are almost back where we were before Newton! Particle physicists were also asking the question what gives matter 'mass' and hence the source of gravity. The Higgs Boson looks like the answer but what actually is a Higgs Boson? We might as well ask what is an electron? Not only do we not know but according to Werner Heisenberg we will never know.


Take the unpredictability of a dripping tap or the orbits of three gravitationally bound objects in space.. they are in a state of 'chaos' meaning totally unpredictable.. but why? Thermodynamics was born out of the industrial revolution and gave us the theoretical basis for the efficient conversion of fuel to kinetic energy but what is energy? It is a fact of life that whatever questions we answer leads to more questions ending up with ultimate questions which we don't know if we can answer. Such questions suggest an answer which deeply engages our concept of reality. Quantum theory and string theory have raised questions about the meaning of 'reality'.. and the possibility that what we perceive is only part of a much bigger reality. At this point we are entitled to ask are all the cards on the table?


Evolution as an upward process to greater complexity is falsified (see the God Law). We therefore know that life had a complex not a simple beginning! An inescapable result of the Second Law for all natural processes. Applying the same law to the formation of stars and galaxies.. like cosmic sandcastles on a cosmic beach made from cosmic sand (hydrogen). We get exactly the same answer.. Sir Fred Hoyle said that a big bang only produces an adiabatic expansion and is as dead as doornail. So the creator of life must also be the creator of the complex universe in which he decided to put it. God is an infinite mind outside the universe.. a deep truth.


Please stay with me, leave galaxies, we must ask a very important question; Is there any relationship between these different truths.? Next time


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