Further to “BBC: Inflation (multiverse) theories only work if supplemented by ‘exotic physics’” (Try this “exotic physics” thing out next time you are disputing a traffic ticket):
They’re already spin-doctoring. We are on either the third or fourth iteration of inflation models. These are not “the simplest” ones. These are already highly tuned to 1:10^100 which is not a very simple thing. Inflation was an “exotic” idea and we don’t need another “exotic physics” to take its place, we need plain Jane physics to bring sense back to the community. We need to stop funding this rot.
See also: Multiverse cosmology: Assuming that evidence still matters, what does it say?
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In search of a road to reality
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‘Intriguingly, a recent article in Scientific American noted, “Some researchers think that the world, at root, does not consist of material things but of relations or of properties, such as mass, charge and spin.” But information, not matter, is fundamentally relational.
So, is the basic substance of the universe information? In that case, the ID theorists are right.’
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Hi Denyse. In your article, In Search of a Road to Reality, the researchers that you mention in the excerpt above, seem to echo Niels Bohr’s view of reality, as expressed in the four brief quotes, below, lifted from Wikiquotes:
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Niels Bohr :
We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
In his first meeting with Werner Heisenberg in early summer 1920, in response to questions on the nature of language, as reported in Discussions about Language (1933); quoted in Defense Implications of International Indeterminacy (1972) by Robert J. Pranger, p. 11, and Theorizing Modernism : Essays in Critical Theory (1993) by Steve Giles, p. 28
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
Niels Bohr, “Atomic Physics and the Description of Nature” (1934)
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems.
Language is considered, understandably, as a key exemplar of intelligent design in the service of knowledge, to, isn’t it. So, it all seems to ‘hang together’.
It seems that the more furiously our atheist chums look for a way of avoiding the primordial religious AND scientific truth and are inevitably stymied, the earliest insights of the pioneers of QM are highlighted in all their veridical glory.
Here is some ‘plain Jane physics’ that certainly points to Intelligent Design:
The size of light’s wavelengths and the constraints on the size allowable for the protein molecules of organic life, also seem to be tailor-made for each other. This “tailor-made fit” allows photosynthesis, the miracle of sight, and many other things that are necessary for human life. These specific frequencies of light (that enable plants to manufacture food and astronomers to observe the cosmos) represent less than 1 trillionth of a trillionth (10^-24) of the universe’s entire range of electromagnetic emissions. Like water, visible light also appears to be of optimal biological utility (Denton; Nature’s Destiny).
One type of light sensitive cell, the rod, can detect a single photon. For visible light the energy carried by a single photon would be around a tiny 4 x 10-19 Joules; this energy is just sufficient to excite a single molecule in a photoreceptor cell of an eye.
Moreover, at the 21:00 minute mark of the following video, Dr Suarez explains why photosynthesis needs a ‘non-local’, beyond space and time, cause to explain its effect:
As well, the ATP synthase molecular machine, which is an integral part of the photosynthetic process, operates at 100% thermodynamic efficiency: