marvels of creation revealed through the eyes of a physicist
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Newton's law of universal gravitation
Image source: http://scottberkun.com/2010/challenging-newtons-apple/
Creation obeys universal laws that can be discovered by disciplined reason!
Sir Isaac Newton’s definition of physics
“I have not as yet been able to discover the reason for these properties of gravity from phenomena, and I do not feign hypotheses [Hypotheses non fingo]. For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena must be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, or based on occult qualities, or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction.”
Why? How?Q → → A
Albert Einstein’s laws of gravitation
“canvas”deformation
of space-time fabric
“paint”energy & mass
of matter
Gravity is the force of the Cosmos…
Detection of gravity waves in 2015
Laser Interferometry Gravitational Observatory
Novel prizes in physics 1978 & 2006
Light of Creation (aka cosmic microwave background radiation)
Theory predictionproperties of atoms +
observations of receding galaxies +Einstein’s law for space-time +
Planck’s law for light quanta
Datapoints= measurements
of the “oldest light”
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
/Gen. 1:3/
Quantum physics
neither particles nor waves obey beautiful but weird laws never fully predictable
TU Delft
IBM Zurich
Hitachi, Japan
atoms
electrons
photons
quanta of matter
quanta of electricity
quanta of light
Quanta = elementary bits of Creation
Laws of quantum physics…… prone to (a lot of) misunderstanding…say nothing about spiritual or mind-over-matter issues…do provide physics’ “official loophole” for miracles
Images: PTB, GermanyUniversity of Latvia, Riga
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