Comments on: Faith, Physics and Film http://christianmovienews.com/faith-physics-and-film/ An ongoing dialogue about faith and film. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:42:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: After the Flood » Christians in Cinema BLOG http://christianmovienews.com/faith-physics-and-film/#comment-78 After the Flood » Christians in Cinema BLOG Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:15:45 +0000 http://christianmovienews.com/faith-physics-and-film/#comment-78 [...] or “charismatic”. [It’s a like me trying to explain the Higgs boson particle. I considered studying physics in college, but changed to music] A Christian [...] […] or “charismatic”. [It’s a like me trying to explain the Higgs boson particle. I considered studying physics in college, but changed to music] A Christian […]

]]> By: Peter Curran http://christianmovienews.com/faith-physics-and-film/#comment-74 Peter Curran Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:19:55 +0000 http://christianmovienews.com/faith-physics-and-film/#comment-74 I had high hopes that when CERN switched on the LHC in November of this year, they would inadvertently create a black hole, thus increasing the sales of my book, 'The Ancient Order of Moridura' (with a related theme of a nascent singularity created by a meteorite impact in Extremadura). But then I realised that the extinction of the planet - and probably the solar system - would prevent me from collecting my royalties. Life can be unfair sometimes! However, doomsday has been postponed until April/May of 2008 because of problems with magnets. The Higgs boson must be chuckling quietly in interstellar space, its anonymity preserved for a little longer. But I leave you with a quote from Brother Anselmo, the Abbot of El Monasterio de Moridura - “It is my belief, and that of the Chapter, that whatever natural event created the topography of La Copa – we believe it to have been a meteor impact and La Copa to be its impact crater – also created a gravitational anomaly, an instability in the mysterious force that pervades our Universe. Modern science has only a very partial understanding of this force, and, in its speculations about dark matter and black holes, sometimes seems no better equipped than a medieval theologian or alchemist to give an account of it.” For a moment, a lighter note entered his voice, almost bantering. “My scientifically-inclined brethren tell me that one current of thought in the world scientific community is that gravity and the three-dimensional nature of the observed universe are but illusions, and that we are in fact two-dimensional creatures inhabiting a two-dimensional world. It gives us some harmless amusement to consider that the very scientists who sometimes dismiss religious belief as superstition now seem to be the flat-earthers!” http://moridura.blogspot.com regards Peter Curran Edinburgh, Scotland I had high hopes that when CERN switched on the LHC in November of this year, they would inadvertently create a black hole, thus increasing the sales of my book, ‘The Ancient Order of Moridura’ (with a related theme of a nascent singularity created by a meteorite impact in Extremadura).

But then I realised that the extinction of the planet - and probably the solar system - would prevent me from collecting my royalties. Life can be unfair sometimes!

However, doomsday has been postponed until April/May of 2008 because of problems with magnets.

The Higgs boson must be chuckling quietly in interstellar space, its anonymity preserved for a little longer.

But I leave you with a quote from Brother Anselmo, the Abbot of El Monasterio de Moridura -

“It is my belief, and that of the Chapter, that whatever natural event created the topography of La Copa – we believe it to have been a meteor impact and La Copa to be its impact crater – also created a gravitational anomaly, an instability in the mysterious force that pervades our Universe. Modern science has only a very partial understanding of this force, and, in its speculations about dark matter and black holes, sometimes seems no better equipped than a medieval theologian or alchemist to give an account of it.”

For a moment, a lighter note entered his voice, almost bantering.

“My scientifically-inclined brethren tell me that one current of thought in the world scientific community is that gravity and the three-dimensional nature of the observed universe are but illusions, and that we are in fact two-dimensional creatures inhabiting a two-dimensional world. It gives us some harmless amusement to consider that the very scientists who sometimes dismiss religious belief as superstition now seem to be the flat-earthers!”

http://moridura.blogspot.com

regards

Peter Curran
Edinburgh, Scotland

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