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Science keeps on changing its views on cosmology as newer theories and equations are derived and becomes the latest craze. I think religious beliefs about cosmology remain steadfast withoiut modifications until science eventually catches up with it. So I will remain patient until string theory gets proven or disproven.
So far my faith has remained steady and unwavering both on religion and science. I think the parallel Universes that Scientis and physicists like Dr Greene are essentially the ones created in the consciousness of different groups of humans and animals. Each believes in the interpretation of the skies and the world around us based on their own ideologies and religious beliefs. These Universes or branes/brains are constantly colliding and sparking of discussions sometimes very heated and completely divergent. Most of us recognize the under/netherworld, visible world and the heavenly world no matter what philosophy or ideology or religion we put our faith in.
Yes there is a dynamic Universe out there. But its manifestation of reality occurs within each individual’s consciousness differently. Those who align with WorldScienceU’s views bbelong to one manifestation. Others have their own different manifestation of its “truth”. These are the parallel universes. Which is rea? What is out there or what has manifested in your consciousness? Scientists constantly seek to “prove” their “truths” Other’s just don’t care. They will die with the truths they have perceived. If they put it down in writing then that become a another reality that gets passed down. That is what the Vedas are.
Quantum theory has made science into a probability of occurence of any event. So, based on that even the most extreme event which theologians would attribute to a miracle of God has been captured by the extreme probability of occurence. So, from that point of view Science has already accomplished the explanation of every possible event’s occurence. These are all the developments made by conscious minds not the dead scientists. Their(the dead scientists) consciousness has been transferred to modern scientists through their notes, essays, articles writings etc. So the philosophy of consciousness being a universal presence and not just a personal experience is a valid theory. I understand that is a religious philosophy too! Religion is nothing but an ancient science that is explained by scriptures for the common man to understand. Exactly, what people like Prof Greene and others are trying to do through all their videos and books where hardly any equation is presented except metaphorical explanations of scientific discoveries and their mathematical derivations but without showing any mathematical equations. As far as I understand the Vedas are nothing but a large body of ancient scientific discoveries of Rishis and Seers who were ancient scientists. The Bhagavad Gita is nothing but a very detailed exposition of Human consciousness and behaviors. The five Pandavas represent the five senses and Lord Krishna the sixth sense or the intellect/mind/brain. The hundreds of Kauravas and all their cousins and kith and kin represent the myriad conscious behaviors of humankind.
Dark energy, Dark matter and black holes cannot be seen because they interact with light in a way that you can only infer with your mind and certain experiments and very indirectly. God is a similar concept. He exists and does not exist at the same time. You cannot see God. You can only experience God through personal experiments. The lab is your own body and mind. The sixth sense the (mind) is the only way to indirectly experience God. Exactly the same concept as black holes in the Universe. Except we don’t need large expensive space telescopes. If we can build a inverted telescope (microscope possibly) to see inside the mind then may be we can discover this invisible God.
Miracles are to religion as experiments like LIGO are to Scientists. They cannot be repeated that easily. Similarly we have to wait for another pair of black holes to collide to see another gravitational wave signature on LIGO. As sure as scientists are about the collision so are religious buffs sure about miracles.
More likely it expands our ignorance of the Universe. We don’t know what 95% of it is. It’s all Maya or illusion. We just see more mathematical discoveries that there is Dark energy that cannot be seen or sensed or harnessed in any way. Now they want another bigger LHC costing hundreds of billion$ to verify that there is nothing out there.
Just when I had finished saying elsewhere in another course discussion that scientists use math as their language, I now realize that this is a sciemce that does not require mathematical equations. Mainly deductive reasoning and logical thinking, perseverence and painstaking documentation. This is time travel backwards!
An observer”s conscious experences are all subjective. Math is the common written language that scientists use to convey their observerations (conscious experiences) to other scientists. Other scientists can then translate that mathematical set of euations,numbers etc back into conscious experiences and see if they agree. That is how bodies of knowledge are transmitted in the modern scientific world and collected into larger and larger volumes. If all the scientists on Earth agree on some observation then that becomes an established truth which can be challenged by a future scientist or improved upon. Religion and religious experiences on the other hand are often not mathematically expressed and done so purely with language skills which are all subjective and cannot be easily replicated to other observer’s experience/consciousness.
According to Einstein light is bent by gravity. If that is the case then how is it that the light from from distant stars travels straight to Earth without being influenced by the gravity of other stars that the light passes close to. Light from mercury was bent by the gravity of our relatively “tiny” sun. Other stars are much much bigger than our Sun.