Free Will, Predestination and Linear Algebra

Contemporary cosmology has a number of fascinating avenues of investigation and research. There are many videos that provide deep insight into the new learning, yet there are some rather simple and useful practical works that philosophically enlighten one about paradigms of abstract thought regrading cosmology and the terms used to understand its abstract tools.

I found a video recently that lets one better understand the abstract nature of templates or paradigms in which one may construct a coordinate system for anything from a couple of vectors to a Math Universe Hypothesis I suppose. Edward Frenkel's video on numberphile is useful... numbers and free will 

There are other videos featuring Joel Primack and John Barrow worth watching.

Cosmological structure formation

Cosmology and the Constants of Nature

I have considered the topic of free will and predestination recently in my theology studies, and in one case going over the Westminster Confession of Faith as well as the basic paradigm of time expressed in Genesis. Some wonder how people can have free will and determinism consistently and there are many ways to explain that. Christians believe the Universe is entirely deterministic according to God's foreknowledge and omnipotence, yet they have been given free will. I think the video is a useful tool for thinking about how various ideas may be viewed from different perspectives and maybe analogize that with how will can be free subjectively and yet objectively deterministic.

Not that I regard the linear algebra video material as directly relevant to theology; I just found it an interesting device for thought. If God let an underlying field cosmology exist best understood by cosmologists as pure mathematical points (ref. Tegmark's A Mathematical Universe), that does not mean that the math coordinate system is the entity itself, that is actually what Kant would call the noumenon. For us ordinary folk we might say that the Holy Spirit shaped an appearance of energy and mass that can best be described by cosmologists with pure mathematical points, yet the Holy Spirit itself is not part of the field description in the Math Universal Hypothesis. More so, the particular point of view of a Math Universe Hypothesis is just one point of view-a human point of view.

Another thing useful about the video is that one may use it to consider general relativity as one way of viewing spacetime. I think that was one of Einstein's points.