9/17/10

Physical Cosmology; Theology and Solid State of Uncertainty on Emergent Collective Characteristics

I am a bit remote from recollecting much of the history of Scholasticism and continental theology presently having worn out my Coppleston's History of Philosophy in Alaska a few years ago and migrated towards logic, cosmology and secular history and other topics inclusive of the New Testament. I remain a bit of a Toynbean and consider cyclic social history and low-entropy economics.I have considered buying McGee's 'The Bible Bus' on cd in order to reinforce a plain, Biblically based knowledge of old testament concepts.

I appreciate the scholastic investigation into causality, yet like the neo-Platonist method as well as a fell swoop method of inference about God's constructions that perhaps grace divulges. Yet presently reading Laughlin's 'A Different Universe-reinventing physics from the bottom down' I have derived some different ideas about group theory and of course causality.

The three persons that are one God is an interesting collective-singularity criterion for God that has an emergent characteristic itself perhaps negating the need for a causal explanation or reduction of cause and effect to one ponderous infinitely small particle that arose from nowhere. Perhaps Stephen Hawking would appreciate the collective as one nature of God concept of an omnipotent being that has no need for a point of origin in eternity. Stephen Hawking hypothesizes a universe that could arise de novo without diving help-perhaps because of quantum fluctuations of a vacuum energy assembling through attraction into a clump of mass large enough to expand through a phase transition of mass-energy repulsion (that may be something like the Hartle-Hawking Universe without a singularity in time merger into being with a dimension of space becoming a dimension of time.)

Robert Laughlin is not of course writing theology or divine mechanics contributions but just a different method of viewing solid state physics and quantum mechanics. I hence directly apply what I learn to the concepts about God and our relationship to His Universe and what it is.

I believe that when the emergent characteristics point of view of solid state physics is applied to cosmology and even teleology along with an awareness of the Galilean-Newtonian way of mechanics as of secondary importance to theology, the Plotinian concept of The One (God) may also be changed to be consistent to a collectivist unity as one without need for a causal reduction in time to one point explained.

God is not ultimately reducible to one particular point or grid coordinate with a place in time and with a first cause perhaps. Maybe modern physics is moving along with a parallel development about the causality of the Universe and the philosophical classification structure of mechanics.

Rigorous cause and effect structures of associated history such as would satisfy David Hume are not inconsistent with the divine attributes of omnipotence.Causality or observed changes in physical systems at a collective level are not invariably easy to reconcile with either quantum mechanics or divine causality.

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