[MHGinTN]

In the physical realm, the universe is the observer, constantly taking measure of subatomic particles via the quantum field. This same QF allows the interactions of everything from quarks to galaxies via the ascending complexity from virtual particles and anti-particles to atoms, to molecules, to compounds, to planets, to solar systems, to galaxies, to super clusters. Understanding the fundamentals of the QF might someday allow Science to understand how time and space and soul and spirit are all intertwined and dangling from the God thread rather than resting upon physicality. But we're not there yet, however, with the concept of information theory, humanity is approaching the problem in a new way which may yield the fundamentals of the problem.

[betty boop]

Understanding the fundamentals of the QF might someday allow Science to understand how time and space and soul and spirit are all intertwined and dangling from the God thread rather than resting upon physicality. But we're not there yet, however, with the concept of information theory, humanity is approaching the problem in a new way which may yield the fundamentals of the problem.

FWIW, I think that's ineluctibly the direction we're heading in, MHGinTN -- notwithstanding a certain amount of resistence from "classical" pysicists (and biologists)....

Thanks again for writing!

[YHAOS]

"But we're not there yet, however, with the concept of information theory, humanity is approaching the problem in a new way which may yield the fundamentals of the problem."

When I was but a child some sixty years ago, and knew a little bit more science than I do today (albeit drawn from a much smaller information pool), I had thoughts not unlike what you express, though I had no firm idea how those thoughts might emerge or what reality they might ultimately assume. Having more compelling interests, I did not pursue science past high school and a couple of college requirements, but I kept touch via the much scorned and discredited medium of (in a whisper) science fiction. { 8^)

This, I believe, was not an uncommon experiece for people my age or younger, and, consequently, over the decades Science Fiction gained a new-found respectability both literarily and scientifically. The quality of the writers, of course, had much to do with the respectability - Heinlein, Clarke, Davidson, Norten, Sturgeon, Niven - the list is virtually endless. These were good books of ideas and imagination, which dealt not with a science sterile, but with how its various disciplines related to real people doing real things. Like all good literature, the works of Science Fiction directed our societal affections, and informed our values, and it caused us to expect the same from Science itself.

Thanks for writing, MHGinTN.