The Physicist As Mystic

THE PHYSICIST AS MYSTIC by David Lewis

A child staring at the clear night sky beholds the wonder of the
universe and its mystery. How, after all, to such a simple mind, to any
mind, can the starry expanse go on and on, never ending. For if it were
to end, we imagine, there would always be something beyond. And then
what about the beginning, and before that, and so on? The two apparent
extremes describe what the French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise
Pascal, called les deux infinis, the two infinities.

As science probes this mystery, subatomically and cosmically, it
searches within the domain of finite understanding for its answer. Since
Darwin, western scientists have told us that matter gave birth to
reality, to life, that reality is concrete, which is to say finite, the
wonder of infinity as observed on a starry night notwithstanding. But in
its attempt to define reality, to put it into an intellectual box,
materialistic science finds itself in the land of mystics, the realm it
sought to avoid all along.

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http://www.atlantisrising.com/issue8/ar8physicist.html

It is not necessary to abuse and demean
and disempower and harm people
to go there ...

That is Hell,
Of which Dante knew well.

.... but Dante
had Virgil for company.

**** YOU

Who did that to me.

IT

has been around a long time.
A lot of people have been killed over IT.

Today, science,
or professionals in the name of science,
have

NO RIGHT

to continue that kind of abuse.

That happened to me.

"Twittering One" wrote in message ups.com...
It is not necessary to abuse and demean
and disempower and harm people
to go there ...

That is Hell,
Of which Dante knew well.
Twitty ... type in "artis,David Camp" and you will see an artist that has spent a lifetime of reaching to a point of understanding 'Dante" .....

Very interesting art he has put together!

L
Bee-Ji-hope-u-feel-better!