Physicist Receives Million-Pound Prize for Predicting a 'Hypercosmic God'

ICR ^ | March 24, 2009 | Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D.

[GodGunsGuts]

On March 16, 2009, the Templeton Foundation announced the winner of its annual 1 million pound sterling (1.42 million USD) prize, an amount that exceeds the payoff of the prestigious Nobel Prize...Dr. d’Espagnat was awarded the prize for his work using theoretical physics to predict the reality of a hypercosmic god, who exists outside of the physical universe...

[GodGunsGuts]

That’s true, we figured it out way before he did!

[Just another Joe]

Even so. if God can affect events in this dimension by actions in his dimension, then we, by actions in our dimension (praying, fasting, believing) should be able to affect events in God's dimension (getting his attention).

I'm taking as a given that the persons hypothesis is true.

[steve86]

I always thought Loop Quantum Gravity had a certain Byzantine character.

[Salamander]

It’s in the mail.

Go wait by the box.

[shibumi]

Read the “Current Project” on my homepage that I posted here over 4 years ago.

[Salamander]

The Tao that can be known is not the Tao.

[substitute God for Tao and there you have it]....:))

God simply *is*.

[metmom]

Paul Tillich dealt with this conumdrum by positing that all knowing about an other is through God, making of all relationships a triangle with no contact between the points of the base. The one dimensional aspect of God fits neatly with some aspects of string theory. Each particulate of matter is interdependent only insofar as it is linked with God, otherwise it is isolated. God is the glue that holds it all together.

Col 1:17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

[tacticalogic]

In this model, there is no way to know this divine being or connect with him in a meaningful way.

This is good news?

[ADemocratNoMore]

BTTT

[varon]

God simply *is*.

Does God have self awareness or know what *is* is, I ask with sincerity.

[Salamander]

Unlike Bill Clinton, yes.

[Excellence]

bfl

[CottShop]

[[If events in one dimension affect events in the other dimension then, logically, it should go both ways]]

Not if there’s a check valve

[CottShop]

[[Does God have self awareness or know what *is* is, I ask with sincerity.]]

Depends on when- if we know when when is, then we start to understand what is is

[Nipplemancer]

but the answer to life, the universe, and everthing is 42. I wonder if Slartibartfast knows the origins of the great flood. after all, he did create the fjords of norway.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[csense]

If events in one dimension affect events in the other dimension then, logically, it should go both ways.

Interesting principle. Let's test it. Give me one example in which your adulthood has affected your childhood.

Anyone?

[dr_lew]

Anyone?

Category error.

[csense]

Seems like I have the categories of time and space covered. Which category, or categories, are you referring to.

[dr_lew]

Adulthood and childhood are categories of future and past. Your challenge is exactly equivalent to saying, “If the past can affect the future, why can’t the future affect the past?”

The principle, enunciated by Lucretius, that “that cannot be touched which cannot be touched itself”, is sound insofar as it refers to objects conceived as persisting in time. “Adulthood” and “childhood” are not in this category. The closest correct version of your implied principle would be, “If the parent can affect the child, the child can affect the parent.”

Cf. “Dr. Diagoras” by Stanislav Lem