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Old 04-08-2003, 06:31 PM   #1
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Last night I was reading three books. Entanglement, a book about Quantum Physics, and two of Stephen Hawking'S books. If a god existed for an infinite amount of time, he would be visible from every part of the Universe and the entire Universe would be at his body heat for a minimum. Also, do Christians believe that their god is physically tangible? Is he or she supposedly made up of atoms? What do they think? Also, if the Uncertainty Theory of Quantum Physics say that one can not know both the exact position of a particle the Christian god could not be all knowing.
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I would also recommend "A History of Physics" by Isaac Asimov. My father gave it to me when I was about fifteen, then read it himself, then asked me to explain the last chapter to him (quantum theory).


Just to play YHWH's advocate, here: the 3.5 angstrom (am I getting this right? It's just off the top of my head) background radiation that is held to be fading "noise" from the big bang could be said to be God's body heat, if you wanted to call it that.

And a being who transcends space and time would tell Heisenberg to zark off.

(edit) Excuse me, that would be 2.7 Kelvin radiation, maybe about 3.5 mm in wavelength (I'm looking at a graph with hard-to-read numbers). Dopey me!
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I think most would tell you that God is more like energy than matter ... since he's in the supernatural realm, and not of our natural world, he can assume a physical form if he likes, but is not really of this Universe. I am surprised that I haven't heard it postulated that God is what makes up the "missing matter" of the Universe.
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