41. Intelligent Design Topic: How Can an Unembodied Intelligence Interact with t...
that the Bohmian approach to quantum mechanics merely shifts what's problematic in the classical view to Bohm 's quantum potential). Richard Feynman was right when he remarked that no one understands quantum mechanics. The "mechanics" in "quantum
- 13.8kb
42. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: Criticisms of Quantum-Based Proposals on...
and Polkinghorne
reject quantum indeterminacy as a candidate for the causal joint. The link
between the probabilistic world of quantum mechanics and the macroscopic world
is still poorly understood (see Schrödingers Cat and the
- 5.3kb
43. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: The EPR Paradox
depths of his
distaste for quantum uncertainty. His strongest counter-argument was to call
attention to a paradoxical implication of quantum mechanics now known as the
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) Paradox.
Take, for example, a pair of protons
- 5.4kb
44. Information Science Topic: Indeterminacy
- unpredictable, namely,
quantum, chaotic, and complex systems. As such, the possibility of Divine action in these systems is hard to rule
out. Quantum indeterminacy has been offered as a way for God to communicate
information to the Universe.
- 5.5kb
45. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: The Hidden-Variable Theory of David Bohm
a more
holistic view of the quantum world . Indeed Bohm himself stressed the holistic
aspect of quantum theory in his later years, after his conversion from Marxism
to theosophy.
See also the many-worlds interpretation for another way
- 4.5kb
46. Physics Topic: Big Bang Cosmology and Creation Theology
the introduction of quantum physics , as we have already seen.
Though highly speculative, the Hawking /Hartle model of the "quantum
creation of the universe" is an example of the kind of challenge
presented by quantum cosmology
- 13.0kb
47. Divine Action Topic: Russell, Robert John. Special Providence and Gene...
Russells claim is that quantum mechanics
provides one such possibility. Moreover, since quantum mechanics underlies the
processes of genetic mutation, and since mutation together with natural
selection constitute the central features of the
- 7.3kb
48. General Term: Inflationary Big Bang Cosmology
and so on. In most
quantum cosmologies, our universe is just a part of an eternally expanding,
infinitely complex megauniverse. Quantum cosmology, however, is a highly
speculative field. Theories involving quantum gravity, which underlie
- 4.0kb
49. Physics Topic: The Anthropic Principle and Creation Theology
appeal to inflation or quantum cosmology as dubious since
these theories, especially quantum cosmology, are speculative
and difficult to test empirically. Thus for cosmologist George
Ellis and theologian Nancey Murphy , the fact that
- 12.7kb
50. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: The Many-Worlds Interpretation
This interpretation of quantum mechanics starts from the
assumption that scientific theories ought to be self-interpreting. The
Schrödinger wave equation in quantum mechanics is smooth, continuous and
deterministic . There is nothing in
- 3.7kb