God and Quantum Theory

by Kenneth Francis (March 2024)

 

In understanding the universe, it seems that quantum theory, according to most physicists, is the final mysterious frontier of cosmic science. If so, I believe that this boundary can only be understood fully by a Mind possessing omniscience: God. The serpent in the Garden of Eden successfully conned Adam and Eve into believing they could achieve omniscience, and we all know what happened after that mother-of-all conceited errors.

I often wonder did the serpant also tempt the ‘Adam and Eve’ scientists in Switzerland’s ‘Garden of CERN’, with their Large Hadron Collider in search of the so-called ‘God particle’, with the company’s abstract ‘666’ logo, and the Shiva statue god of creation and destruction outside their creepy headquarters. Even Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein was written by the shores of Lake Geneva, next door to CERN, with its potential for creating another Frankenstein’s monster.
As for omniscience: It entails knowledge of everything, including how the universe exists on an infinitesimal micro level. The late Stephen Hawking, who was an atheist, once said: “If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would know the mind of God [figuratively speaking].”

So, what is it that is so complex about quantum theory and how is it related to God? Quantum physics is the study of matter and energy at the most subatomic levels. However, scientific aims to uncover and fully understand the properties and behaviours of the very building blocks of nature, seem to be halted by a metaphorical brick wall, like the Hand of God saying: “Back off! Remember the Tower of Babel and the conceit of Man trying to reach into Heaven? Like Babel, I’ve no desire to fully destroy the Tower of Quantum Theory, but I will frustrate the communications of scientists in their quest for omniscience. Only one who possesses omniscience can fully understand this mysterious field of knowledge. But I will allow you a hint of it while studying my Resurrection and the Shroud of Turin, as well as some other aspects of science.” (Apologies to God for speculating on what He might say!). And, theistically, isn’t God with His omniscience and omnipresence combined the only one capable of solving the quantum paradox of Schrodinger’s Cat, by knowing if it is dead or alive?

Cats aside, the few things that scientists theorise on this weird field of cosmology are undeniably spooky. In this world of small particles, classical physics is no longer valid and seem to breakdown and act strangely. This is unlike our macro world, which describes the movement of big particles, where everything is deterministic.

But in quantum theory, according to physicists, there are 10 interpretations, thus the big problem lies in interpreting the equations of the mechanics: Which one of the all-valid, all mathematically consistent 10 interpretations is the right one? On the quantum level, we can only determine probabilities for the movement of the smallest micro particles. There is also the hypothesis among some scientists that the brain, not the Mind, relies on quantum physics. (The link below to this fascinating short video explains it well:

 

Writing in the best online science magazine, Mind Matters News, author-journalist Denyse O’Leary says: “[Such a] hypothesis is that the brain relies on quantum physics, not classical physics, to power thinking processes. Quantum processes are helpful to know about when we hear a gimcrack new theory that dismisses or explains away consciousness. We know it can’t be that simple.”

The Irish philosopher George Berkeley’s Idealism touches on the Mind and consciousness. In Of The Principles Of Human Understanding, he wrote: “It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing among men that houses, mountains, rivers and in a word, all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding … For what are the aforementioned objects but the things we perceive by sense? And what do we perceive besides our own ideas or sensations? And is it plainly repugnant that anyone of these, or any combination of them, should exist unperceived.”

As we approach Easter Sunday at the end of this month, Bible teacher Chuck Missler wrote about a Hungarian particle physicist called Dame Isabel Piczek, who researched the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Missler said she uncovered hard, scientific evidence that Jesus Christ did, in fact, rise from the dead. The object, which was wrapped around the body of Jesus, of her study is a simple piece of ancient fabric known as the Shroud of Turin, the most-studied artifact in history.
Dame Piczek explains the complicated physics behind the image on the Shroud: “As quantum time collapses to absolute zero [time stopped moving] in the tomb of Christ, the two event horizons [one stopping events from above and the other stopping the events from below at the moment of the zero time collapse] going through the body get infinitely close to each other and eliminate each other [causing the image to print itself on the two sides of the Shroud]. (A Quantum Hologram of Christ’s Resurrection? An Easter Surprise, by Chuck Missler, April 1, 2009)

She and a team of hardboiled scientists (many who allegedly converted to Christianity) also discovered that the body of Jesus defied gravity by elevating, while the Shroud became taut (like a sideways letter ‘U’ shape), as He levitated then floated in the middle.

News of this went mainstream in December 2011. The UK’s Daily Mail wrote in its headline: Turin Shroud ‘was created by flash of supernatural light’: It couldn’t be a medieval forgery, say scientists.

The article continues: “Italian researchers have found evidence that casts doubt on claims that the relic—said to be the burial cloth of Jesus—is a fake and they suggest that it could, after all, be authentic. Scientists from Italy’s National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development spent years trying to replicate the shroud’s markings. They have concluded only something akin to ultraviolet lasers—far beyond the capability of medieval forgers—could have created them.”

As someone who is self-educated in astronomy and neuroscience, I cannot verify the above findings, but I can speculate on the core aspects of these findings based on reliable sources by both theistic and secular distinguished scientists who I trust, as they are not ideologically driven by the corrupt field of Scientism (check out ‘Part 1 – Viewpoint: Why is Trust in Scientific Research at an All-Time Low?’ January 29, 2024, By Henry Miller and Stanley Young. Also, see a recent Pew study by Brian Kennedy and Alec Tyson: ‘Americans Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science, Continue to Decline’ [November 14, 2023]).

To repeat: In the strange field of quantum mechanics, if it does exist, only God understands how ultimate reality works, leaving us to settle and be content with some clues of this alleged mysterious micro-universe. Let this be a warning to those who seek omniscience. Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward. (Job 5:7)

 

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Kenneth Francis is a Contributing Editor at New English Review. For the past 30 years, he has worked as an editor in various publications, as well as a university lecturer in journalism. He also holds an MA in Theology and is the author of The Little Book of God, Mind, Cosmos and Truth (St Pauls Publishing) and, most recently, The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurd (with Theodore Dalrymple) and Neither Trumpets Nor Violins (with Theodore Dalrymple and Samuel Hux).

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