A Deterministic Universe

It is possible for a deterministic Universe to exist (since a Universe exists and might be determined). It is reasonable to consider the issue a little further perhaps.

One would tend to make an evaluation about the state of pre-destination or determinism in the Universe on the basis of extrapolating from observation and inferences or interpretation of revelation I would think. The Second Law of thermodynamics and the arrow of time seem to support the idea that everything is determined within certain limits. Quantum mechanics and the standard model indicate that all interactions of quanta are pre-determined to occur with certain values and rules of order. Degrees of freedom of motion and of association of quanta have a determined element with an element of uncertainty simultaneously in order to allow structure to exist and change to occur. Being and nothingness are common elements of existence.

“Testimonium divinitatis est veritas divinationis. Tertullian.

To foretell things contingent, which depend upon no natural causes, is peculiar to Deity.”

There is another point somewhat interesting; that of different categories of infinites. Cantor and Godel developed a logic of trans-fine sets and of a set of all sets conundrum respectively, yet there may be another transformative sort of infinity, or a different kind of infinity that differs in destination rather than just cardinal or ordinal character. An infinite series of numbers may morph at some point into something else, such as a line of natural numbers morphing into a cloud of numbers, and that may exemplify the space-time or phenomenal importance of location for infinite series. Alternatively an infinite series could just continue, yet as a singularity at T=0 extrapolated from Einstein's field equations might lead one to contemplate is thought of as reducible infinitely with recursively concentrating gravity, the abstraction of an infinite series might be changed by the physics of quanta and permissible forms of being. A singularity could morph into a field or cloud I guess.

One cannot at all be certain about the metaphysics of the solid-state energy field that is the Universe. Innumerable dimensions morphing like ghosts through one another creating temporal physics here and there are possible. Its been noted that the Universe could be a hologram-like event horizon around the black hole in a five-dimensional metaverse. I believe that God created the Universe myself and have thought about the six days of creation equated with the special theory of relativity and a differential value for how mankind observers speed-of-light values for God as something in the billions of years range (Twin's Paradox).

If one uses a realm-of-forms context for quantum forms like one-dimensional branes, quarks, atoms, etc. and any given field such as a Higgs field presenting the energy quanta that appears to observers to be mass it would be reasonable to consider the zero-mass context for light, the speed of light as a massless quanta and that relation to Spirit as faster than light in so far as it transcends the matrix of space-time and energy-mass comprising the Universe clump of energy-mass. God wills it to exist for a while.

Adding Up Six Days of Creation & Special Relativity

God issued light straight away in the first fraction of a second of Creation. Then he worked six days. I will consider how special relativity relates to the creation early-in particular the 6 days of creation. Take a literal value of the word ‘day’ in Genesis 1. It isn’t about deciding that the word day really means ‘watermelon’ or ‘night’. I considered the fact of day as a unit understood in the 2nd millennium B.C. mostly referring to the period where the Earth turns one full revolution (though the ancients didn’t know that the Earth rotated) and from that point made an inference. I think God would work more than 8 hours a day-maybe 10. Some people include night as part of day of course. Though if someone said that it was 6 days walk to village delta they may have meant walking all night too, or not. If one wanted to walk at night and take that risk maybe village delta was three days walk-one can't be sure about the specific use sometimes. They might have meant just walking in the light when  lions weren't prowling about.

I should note a minor point before moving on to comment on the relation of special relativity to the six days of creation. In Genesis 1 -5“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.”

There is an empty space evidently before light or anything else existed. In contemporary cosmology though energy was created at T=0 light did not emerge until the CMB scattering at 380 thousand years post time=0.

God created the qualities that Einstein would later discover and name special relativity too. Relativity probably was issued simultaneously with energy. One must know the Twin’s paradox to understand the points at issue. I will briefly explain the Twin’s paradox...

A pair of twins standing on the Earth one morning looking toward the sky. Twin Brother A says to Twin Brother B- “I will take yonder space ship resting in the pasture on a six day mission at the speed of light to get some sugar for my coffee from the store, try to get some work done while I am gone.”

Twin A walks over to the spaceship, gets inside, sits down, buckles up and accelerates in a streak through the clouds.

Twin A reaches the store on his third day, buys a pound if sugar and some High Country coffee and heads back to Earth. His ship chronometer says that six days have passed, yet when he reaches Earth the chronometer in the pasture says 26 billion years have elapsed. Twin B who remained at rest on Earth had himself encased in plastic,  shrink-wrapped and hermetically sealed with an atomic clock stopwatch placed on his head. It also has recorded the passage of 26 billion years.  Space and time are one field. Traveling at the speed of light has time dilation effects; in comparison to time for a stationary observer time passes slower. This is not a matter of a literal interpretation of language. Special relativity applied in the 3rd century B.C. too-as well as at the creation; it is a characteristic of space-time built into the Universe.

Because God issued light first thing, I used the speed of light as the basic measure for creation work at time=0 contrasting God as Twin A and mankind as Twin B.

Time Parameters of Creation in Genesis

Six days of creation is the parameter given in the book of Genesis for the creation. The first day was concluded before Earth or mankind existed. Thus it seems almost a post hoc ergo propter hoc logical error-an intrinsically vain and humanist error of equating the days of God to those of men and women. Some insist on giving human literal values to the term 'day' used in the K.J.V. with a unique sort of Platonic, non-relativistic meaning of 'day'. Newton made a similar mistake about the nature of time. The ancients believed time was the same all over the Universe. If it's 1 p.m. in West Palm Beach it is the same time on Alpha Centauri. The ancients did not have advanced knowledge of time zones, G.M.T. and so forth (just kidding). Until the renaissance the concept of galaxies was virtually unknown though Leibniz knew and until the 20th century the existence of extra galaxies unproven.

Dark Ages literalism is unreasonable instance of the effort to reinforce a particular dark ages cosmological hermeneutic for the book of Genesis. Strict scriptural reading does find mention of a beginning or concluding Big Bang or Big noise to begin or end the Creation. It is important not to read into the Bible terms such as 'Universe' instead of creation willy nilly. Inconsistent use of hermeneutic (a theological modal logic lexicon of terms and meaning values for interpreting scripture) can produce inexact an erroneous results just as sloppy astrophysics may in its own field. I do not mean to say though, that it is unreasonable to draw inferences and ideas regarding the steady state of the Universe and cosmology from scripture in comparison and contrast with what is known of the observable Universe today. No longer do scientists, dark age theorists or Mickey Mouse believe that the moon is green cheese and will fall to the Earth thus feeding us all (in memory of the ancient columnist).

Grudgingly perhaps some literalists admit the world is not flat and that the Sun does not circle around the Earth. Even so the recalcitrance of select evangelicals to adopt relativity as a valid parameter when interpreting Genesis can lead to some bad science and hermeneutic.

Genesis chapter 1 verses 1-5

“1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.”

Christians should stipulate that God's power travels at least at the speed of light. The famous Twin's paradox used to explain time dilation in the special theory of relativity can usefully be applied to the following Genesis one parameters in order to show how many human days it would take traveling at 25,000 m.p.h. to go as far as God could at the speed of light in the same six days. to

5.785344×10¹² miles traveling at c (the speed of light) for six days

33,323,581,440 years it would take traveling at 25,000 mph to travel 5.785344×10¹² miles

That is six days of creation for God would take approximately 33 billion human years. Since I used the value of 25,000 for human rocket travel without time dilation speed effects of greater than 1% and the number might actually be somewhat higher I may have generated too high of value for the human experience. It could perhaps be just a few billion years.

God however is eternal and in some way may configure dimensions to create the complex appearance of energy and fields, space-time and form. His power would be super-luminal of course because all space-time coordinates and energized fields are contained within His being.

On the end of the planet Earth and the atmosphere (heaven definition 1 of 3) the Apostle Peter wrote...

2 Peter chapter 3 verses 12-13 “12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”

The parameters of this description coincide with those astrophysicists predict will end the existence of the Earth a few billion years from the present when the sun reaches a red giant phase and will burn up the Earth's atmosphere and everything on Earth-that is the Earth will melt and dissolve.

A new place to live wherein dwells righteousness-Jesus Christ-is a place to look forward to not only for people living toward the end times when or wherever but for Christians of any age. The kingdom of God is a new 'land, Earth, realm etc.' regardless of its composition. The kingdom of God is within you-a relativistic space-time where place and spirit rather than time are juxtaposed.

Thanks for commenting-here are some ideas on the topic...KJV Mark 10-6" But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. "- I think that the verse refers to sexual rather than asexual reproduction yet is not addressing the issue of length-of-days. Literal in algebra means variable, and the word literal isn't in scripture at all, so  I am not sure that taking a 'literal' view is too meaningful for determining what a 'human' view of scripture is. In fact the 'human view' of natural philosophy has changed substantially over history hence people tend to apply contemporary natural philosophy content in their hermeneutic. If the idea of what a day is could change (consider if future Christians live on Mars) the idea of one Earth day period is something of a constant to calculate how long God took to Create the Universe as in the initial equation. If the length of an Earth 'day' is 8 hours then the time it took God to create the Universe in terms of the equation expressed above would be something like 11 billion years. Jesus as God hasn't changed. Days in the first century A.D. had a certain length. I can't recall exactly what they were; one knows that terms about the hour of the watch on the day the Lord was crucified were fixed and that Biblical scholars have written on the subject. More humans understand special and general relativity now than in prior times of history where none understood that at all, yet God always understood relativity and knows what humans will think of after that.

In relativity mass becomes infinitely heavy when accelerated to the speed of light so only massless particles can travel at light speed. True massless particles are part of a field though and have an apparent rather than a separate identity. God though is pure spirit and not limited to being incarnate within mass and hence not even limited to light speed. Spirit is faster than light, yet days are terms within human parameters for understanding and temporal parameters of being. I believe therefore that since light was in the beginning-the fastest think about, that that is the point source for understanding the relation of God to a temporal world-universe He created.

I did take a New Testament Theology course (BS521)-So I have some idea about what has become a contemporary paradigm for the meaning of 'literal'. I don't want to get too far into that subject without reviewing it, and actually I am reading Watson's 'Divinity' presently. I wasn't intending to go far into hermeneutic issues here therefore. Did you ever read Rosenberg's books including 'Abraham; The First Historical Biography'-very good reading. 

Some use the historical-grammatical hermeneutic with adherence to the letter of the text rather than a more metaphorical direction as you mentioned. I tend to recognize the philosophy of language and the idea of lexicons that are word-sets that various peoples use to infuse meaning in to language. That is, I don't agree with the left hermeneutics yet do recognzie the validity of language as more or less nominalist until given meaning by a reader. There is no intention of deception-it's just the way it is. I like Quine's point of view more so than Kriipke's neo-realist philosophy of logic. An advanced being from the future (God is more than an advanced being and doesn't have problems of course yet it is necessary to use human language in considering such issues because it isn't possible to use anything else) writing inspiring writing in 2000 B.C. would have the challenges of making himself understood then and in the future if that is what was intended. Keep in mind how cuneiform and number were invented in Mesopotatmia counting animals corralled with lines, strikes and so forth and how that evolved. There were not even adequate symbols to record words for some time and certain primary stories were repeated, recorded and passed around..the flood story for example. Yet people interpreting that with their own language later would uncover the writing and understand it as they would sometimes differently. 

There are many subtleties in scriptural analysis yet the objective reality of physics where constants tend to be revealed is comparable a little to the constant qualities of God that are barely understood. Humans experience His glory a little and have scripture, the presence of the Holy Spirit and abilities to correlate elements of teleology with history perhaps. There is a dichotomy between spirit and mass or material substance however that seems self-evident. If God said that he created the world in six days then that is a condescension for humans to understand later. I am just pointing out that since relativity is actual in this Universe along with an Earth-day, and Earth did not exist on day 1, that the relationship being the six days of God may be convertible to 11 to 33 billion years for mankind using the primary sub-superluminal speed that God may have used for communicating to all of humanity-a rather elegant method.

Alaska Governor to Consider a Confederacy of One?

Alaskan Governor Walker (not Scott Walker) made an impolitical poutish reply to a question about Alaskan secession from the nation over the President Obama's wise decision to protect some national Wildlife critical habitats from the rapine and plunder of oil corporations.

http://juneauempire.com/state/2015-01-28/after-federal-announcement-governor-talks-secession

The new governor should sound more patriotic and be for secure borders including sea level and shorelines. If anyone were to plunder and drill ANWR the coastal plain could subside when the oil is gone, and global warming could send late season storms to surge ashore.

The new governor should sound more patriotic and be for secure borders including sea level and shorelines. If anyone were to plunder and drill ANWR the coastal plain could subside when the oil is gone, and global warming could send late season storms to surge ashore.

The Alaska government gave 341 million dollars to study drilling Cook Inlet to produce gas to send to the Interior-more kick-back for the fossil fuel loyalists. If Fuel cell power plants cost $20 million each the state could have bought about 18 power plants for Fairbanks and North Pole and got something real for the money.  Governor Walker could see himself as a potential Jeff Davis (who ended up retiring to Biloxi) able to take Alaska to a new confederacy of one, yet that's too stupid to mention.

The price per barrel of oil is likely to be very low the next 15 years with the entire world's oil fields potentially recoverable with fracking. The United States is the world's largest oil producer already because of fracking, and Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and other countries haven't even got started yet. Oil main remain at 40 dollars a barrel or less quite a while yet solar power and fuel cell tech is advancing. Alaska interior cities should look for fuel cell power plants and even super-conducting lines in the years ahead and make real investments in that direction instead of looking to the past when oil was the new tech.

Alaskan fuel cell plant operators could be trained outside then return for good jobs locally instead of crews from Asia arriving to install some pipelines for global oil corporations at minimum wage before disappearing over the horizon.

It is possible that a revenutionary war to get rid of N.P.R. would be adequate cause, but assuredly taking Alaska out of the U.S.A. in order to prevent national Wildlife Refuges from being formed is the work of an true oil groupie seeking more from his main revenue supplier. If the state were to diversify it could have a better time of negotiating with the global oil corporations that know Alaska politicians are retarded pushovers on the subject.

http://www.fuelcellenergy.com/products-services/products/2-8-mw-dfc3000/

Restarting the Cold War (poem)

Cold war enigma

a fuel cell power plant

silhouetted shadows deepen

concrete Soviet blocks built to the west

waterfront plots around dark pools

research firms mining dissident ideas

corporatists,communists, advanced telecommunications networks

ad hoc ideas for consolidating absolute power

without stalin or delay

Ants scurry along networks of varicose pipelines

innumerable jobs working underground

exhausting reproductive economic cycles of guns and butter

working jobs of field crafts

attacking rotting fruit producing mountains of molehills

freely in trade

for dusty twits, trime and singularity

Raptor rime of ancient mariner

syncopated with blackened lips

parched through waves of verdant decline

expanses of revenutionary warps of the old school

with new tools of gathering power

where trillions of stealth drones lurk in dark space

like whirlwinds of logic sold as slaves to evolution

a doctrine for combat ops droning on

as corporals of industry deadveloping time

Clouds restoring defeat from victory's jaw

disappear while peaceful ice crystals melt away

quietly tickling down to silent spring''s sanctions

in a non-renewable river flow breaking up empires

where deposits from borderlands build banks

being and becoming fossil's fuels of the new hive.

President Obama Has Earned an 'F' in Ecological Economics

With enough political loot in his swag of success a retiring President Obama could open a green tourist lodge on the shore of verdant Lake Tanganyika for Eco-tourists and to coordinate decades of Carterist political interventions globally yet he would still have earned an 'F' on ecospheric economic reform.  While a Walker-Rubio dynamic duo would probably beat down a Hillary-Bill,Lopez,Winfree,Feinstein or Boxer ticket any new President would continue the F- approach to economic reform. It is not sufficient to just slow down the rate of loss of savings from an environmental account 5% to get a few votes over a rival political party; instead a complete economic reform bringing environmental restoration and new, sustainable global economic practices is required starting in the U.S.A.

President Obama has as a loyal to non-sustainable economics capitalist tool worked to enhance the concentration of wealth that the misguided take as pure capitalism. Actual global financial and market networking is effacing and converting capitalism from a pluralist condition toward monism. In time the Stalin of Wall Street with the best social empowerment skills will rule an oligarchy with inflexible domination of the global market allocating resources wheresoever he, she or it will. The end of capitalism occurs with over-concentration of wealth and networked ownership of capitalism. It is not a communist utopia or a minimalist eschatological Von Mises actualization of a few global corporations in competition as winners in survival of the fittest competition-it is an undesirable yet socially deserved death of capitalism, repression of free enterprise and death of democracy. The environment is being killed on the way.

So any politician with environmental economic enlightenment is unlikely to see the light of day through the propaganda ocean of news media oppression of anything that seems antipathetic to a corporatist or networking of power social agenda. Since the world's natural resources are incapable of sustaining an American lifestyle for ten billion it will become undesirable to permit free expression without economic reprisal of dissident economic ideas. 

It is hard to underestimate the desire of Americans to posture for politically correct positions rather to risk saying or writing anything in support of democracy. While self-determination and democracy were politically [popular terms during the Reagan administration, like the word 'poor' that has dropped out of Democrat Party vocabulary unless it applies to illegal aliens or foreigners. Self-determination and democracy too have faded out of the political leadership lexicon as U.S. interventionism to annex former Soviet lands for market exploitation have escalated.

When the Nobel Prize Committee awarded President Obama a peace prize in advance foreseeing his leadership in stimulating wars across North Africa and support for civil war in Ukraine, it did not realize what success he would have a reconstituting a cold war with Russia after the Soviet Union in a remarkable breach of distrust gave up and joined the capitalist world. The United States in some ways has reversed the Soviet Evil Empire modality of expansion that Trotsky envisioned and itself seems to be pressing to compel capitalism upon the world economic system. Barrack Obama makes a poor post-Stalinist cadre of leaders example (when Trotskyism resumed after the Stalin hiatus). Unfortunately, even with a virtual diner's dilemma kind of devotion to avoiding the check loyalty to capitalism, the Universal phase of capitalism in the networked era unforeseen by the Austrian school results in the death of capitalism and environment together.

Yet of course there are off-world resources and millions of black-boy stealth drones possible for budgeting conflicts in space. I guess one can be optimistic that way and trust that Martians can pay the check.

Forms and Immortality of the Soul

Numerous configurations for considering how and why the soul may be immortal may be developed with causality made by the Creator or without. The souls could be regarded as a naturally occurring development in a given Universe that would be replicated inevitably in the same way that the natural form of a hydrogen molecule would recur in any Universe of a similar composition to this one. Because this is a Christian philosophical contemplation though, I prefer to write of the way that God in his glory maintains the immortality of the soul.

It is always fair to say that the soul is immortal that lives in the transcending kingdom of God yet this essay is intended to approach the answer in terms that may be understood by those interested in natural philosophy as well as spirituality.

For one; a soul may be described as that content of sentience and personality, body and mind that comprises an individual. God created that content in mind before the beginning of the Universe, as he did foresee and create a particular number of individual souls to be and become in their own appropriate time. Thus it is obvious that God may restore a soul to actual being though the physical body has perished. It is possible to compare the soul to a computer operating system; if it is wiped out the computer operator may restore it from an original off-line. Obviously God has omniscience of all a priori for he has created all a priori and determined when and how any Universe or thing within it will actualize.

A soul like everything within a created and actualizing Universe has a deterministic character as well as indeterminate characteristics within it. Indeterminism embedded within determinism is an innate characteristic of a Universe with sentient beings within its nature. Variable ranges of freedom within a pre-determined, evolving temporal system exist to allow sentient will to express intelligence and intelligent design of components to exist within the deterministic physical order. In that regard human beings become ‘as little gods’.

A Universe has a given number of dimensions and time axis as boundary conditions, although it is theoretically possible for those to change within a Universe’s historical expansion though with a probability of catastrophic consequents. The boundary conditions and initial endowment of energy that may ossify or evolve into mass steady state are pre-determined to occur within forms possible with the boundary parameters of a particular Universe. Branes, strings, quarks and other energy packets that compound to comprise atoms, molecules and observable mass combine and recombine in pre-determined forms that are pre-determined and finite possibilities of that Universe.

The glory of God expresses Universes and sentient beings to exist providing the opportunity for those beings to praise the glory of God-and rightly so. The ineffable wisdom of the ancient of days transcending space-time parameters coordinates and orchestrates the harmony of dimensions and energy to evolve being perceptible-to-others created with the divine will.

One wonders if dimensions give some boundary conditional curvature to draw the energy endowed to a Universe along space-time lines of evolution, or if the second law of thermodynamics and quantum uncertainty of virtual particles are flowing along a temporal axis of charge and change re-energized to complete its course at the conclusive pre-destination at time equals omega. That re-destination would be unchanged within expansive or contractive future evolutionary cosmological courses. Human souls actualize and the for-themselves fade out within the phenomenal history of a Universe comparable in that regard to virtual particles appearing as from the slope of zero-point energy space uncertainty.

 Gregory Cantor and Kurt Godel developed the ideas leading to trans-finite series, trans-finite sets and the problem of a set-of-all sets. God is the Great Spirit enabling a set of all sets to exist for-Himself actualizing His ideas with Universes being-for-others.