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Has it indeed NOT done so, and the world is entirely imaginary, via the vagaries of entropic manifestations? Is Entropy of constant power or does it change in its potency over space and time? Are there degrees to the tendency to disorder?Ĭould Entropy bring energy and matter-like into existence just by the sheer power of its tendency? Without enthalpy (H), free energy (G), or temperature (T) is thermodynamics even a respectable science?Ĭan we reduce Entropy (S) to an infinitely powerful tendency even though it is of zero actual power as everything on the other side of the equation from it is absent? Is a force still a force if there are no minions on which it can act? ![]() Whose fantasy? It is from this point that semantics and emotion can involve us in an infinite state of reiterative argumentation if we are not careful. So, what brought us to this point if this point does exist? Are we, and all of creation, but fantasy? Quantum mechanics carries us to the precipice of collective psychosis. Einstein’s relativity does not help us any more than his energy (m x c) definition. That brings us to the point where we must ask if there were any forces present, even though matter-like and energy could not exist by our defining constraints? Newtonian forces (m x a) of course are not possible since they require mass-like and energy. Postulating such a dense mass-like substance just kicks the riddle can further down the ante(i)-time pathway, as does the mad idea of some super “God” monster. What we know as matter is mass-like speeding negative and positive energies. That would destroy our concept of perfect nothingness and propound the question – from where did that “glob” come? Anyway, there is no proof that mass-like existed or has ever existed, even today. There was not yet any super dense “glob” of mass, as most “Big Bang” physicists would have us believe. Describing a perfect void is as difficult as defending a negative hypothesis. There is no way to describe such a state since there are no descriptions to use that do not require points of reference, like “super” cold, “negative” degrees, “Kelvin” zero, or “perfect” vacuum. Blackness, cold unmoving vacuum, would be ubiquitous. It is difficult, if not impossible, to imagine a perfect nothingness. ![]() In the beginning nothing existed, not even a wailing void. Right? Magic is for the credulity of children and those who choose not to think. How did the world come about if all was one big nothing, from which nothing could come? Nothing can come from nothing. ![]() If we answer the last question here mentioned with a negative, it begs the question. These questions are as nothing when we compare them to questions like:įrom where have we come? Where are we going? How did it all come about? Is our existence all just a great big cruel illusion? Is the greatest illusion of all the fact that humans believe something is being withheld from them, and if they do enough research, live long enough, suffer enough, they will find out that existence is not absurd and all in vain? Are dreams the mortal enemy of peace? It is one of the greater illusions humans face. Is the constitutive survival lesion just humanity’s inability to avoid illusions? The apparent purpose in all of biological evolution only adds to the appearance of purpose in all of creation. Humans have numerous hoops through which they must jump in order to achieve such freedom. Why? Beasts have no problem dying when they wish to do so. It does not seem to have done that for the beasts. ![]() Can Coragyps atratus see Death as a Sine Wave?Įvolution has shaped the mortal’s involuntary capacity for easy acceptance of illusions.
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The firmament pictured5/1/2024 In Sumerian mythology, An is the god of the sky/firmament, whereas Enlil (literally, “Lord of Wind” ) is the god of what happens between the ground (controlled by En.Ki, “Lord of the Earth”) and the firmament. This belief in a solid firmament was standard among the people of the ANE, who distinguished between the “atmosphere” in which we live and the solid sky above. Ĭultural legends describing the dome are abundant enough to include arrows being shot into the firmament and lodging there (Japan, Native America, Chuckchee), adventurers climbing up to the sky (India), people climbing up through a hole in the firmament (Navaho) or tumbling down through one (Seneca), and heroes sailing a ship to the place where the sky meets the earth (Buriat), and where the firmament is so low that ship masts can end up scraping it. This understanding is so ubiquitous that some anthropologists consider it a “general human belief.” As Paul Seely, a Bible scholar who works on the intersection of ANE literature and science, writes: Apart from a scientific education, it is just too natural for people to think of the sky as something solid. This barrier is dome shaped, since we see the heavens above curving into the horizon and meeting the flat earth. Water doesn’t fall on us because something is holding it up, and that something is transparent, since we can see the blue hue of the liquid behind it. The sky is blue because it is full of water, like the sea. It is best understood as a product of the pre-scientific mind, attempting to make sense of what it sees and offering an intuitive, though factually incorrect, account. The idea of the sky above us as a solid structure is shared by almost all pre-modern human cultures. The idea of a firmament is entirely contradictory to modern planetary science yet there God is, in our Torah, spending all of creation day number two fashioning it. Gen 1:6 God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, that it may separate water from water." 1:7 God made the firmament, and it separated the water which was below the firmament from the water which was above the firmament. If you can entertain this notion, and feel yourself underneath this massive curved wall of heaven, straining under the weight of the rainwater it holds back, then you are living on the earth our sages knew, for this is the world, the universe, of which the Bible conceived: בראשית א:ו וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים יְהִי רָקִיעַ בְּתוֹךְ הַמָּיִם וִיהִי מַבְדִּיל בֵּין מַיִם לָמָיִם. This is what the Bible is describing when it refers to הָרָקִיעַ, traditionally rendered in English Bibles as “the firmament” (from the Latin firmamentum meaning “support”). Only try and picture it as a connecting point between two solids: a flat plate like earth, and a rigid dome like an upside down bowl that vaults it, blue as ocean, from the vast stores of water it contains. ![]() If you are unfamiliar with the firmament, then imagine for a moment the horizon, where the earth appears to meet with the sky. Of all the vexing problems modern cosmology poses for the first chapter of Genesis, such as the insufficient biblical timeline of 6 days (as opposed to billions of years) until the appearance of humans, or vegetative bloom before the sun and photosynthesis, the most acute for me is God’s creation of the firmament (רקיע rakia) on the second day.
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