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Einstein's Contradictions |
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| Written by Diana, on 02-11-2007 00:35 |
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The essay Einstein and the Absolute Beneath the Relative by Stanley L. Jaki is a great read. I've been getting a lot of "religious" emails from friends who don't know or else don't understand my theories on religion. It's frustrating having friends and acquaintances with wildly opposing views, especially on major subjects like science and religion. Most people I know or hang around spend Sundays at church or believe in some sort of greater meaning. I never was one for Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Even in college physics classes I got lost in the impossibility of the idea. I failed to find the reasoning behind it, so using a theory I didn't believe in made solving problems based on it nearly impossible. I wish I had read this article back then, when it would have helped me put studying Relativity into the "going through the motions" category of undergraduate study. My professor at the time was doing research in theoretical physics, the focus of which I don't recall, and I blame some of my lack of comprehension on him. I've always preferred mathematics in the sense that I was working much less often on theoretical problems and much more on problems with a right and a wrong answer. Science is so questionable, especially physics and the universe, whereas mathematics on the typical level are absolute. Mathematics have mostly overcome the religious issues that plague science and the study of the universe and evolution. Zero and infinity, if you aren't referring to an infinite universe, are no longer argued. It all makes people like me start to wonder if religion wasn't created to control and oppress, rather than actually believed. The idea of infinity brings into question the possibility of a higher power. The possibility of infinity begs the understanding of everything which eventually leads to the impossibility of a “creator” or some other than scientific and calculable “meaning.” In my opinion. ;-)
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