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]

Ping!

[pgyanke]

The Church’s funding problems are solved!!

[Just another Joe]

Additionally, events in one dimension are able to simultaneously affect events in the other dimension and distance is not an issue, even though the second dimension is non-local.

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

It's one or the other.
You can't have it both ways.

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

[Mrs. Don-o]

for reading later

[Alex Murphy]

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...

"Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens?"
- Isaiah 40:12a

[Moonman62]

In this model, there is no way to know this divine being or connect with him in a meaningful way. D’Espagnat’s notion of the impersonal/unknowable aspect of this god is not actually predicted by the model, but simply represents his own opinion on the matter.

Just his opinion and no predictions. He's worse than the evolutionists, but not worse than the religious fundamentalists.

[chesley]

Full disclosure. I am a Christian. But I don't see this as evidence of anything.

For what it's worth, if you could put God in a test tube and shake Him up with some litmus paper and watch it turn blue, would that God be worth worshiping?

Not in my opinion.

[Louis Foxwell]

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

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. He is also the channel through which particulates know each other. We can not know God since He is the link to our knowing. This describes an absolutely personal God, not an abstract phenomenon.

[Boxen]

Although d’Espagnat concedes the theological implications of the term “veiled reality,” he guards against using it as justification for specific religious doctrines which can be falsified by reason and facts.

[hosepipe]

To prove God exists(in any form) or does not exist..
You must know WHat God is...
Who does?

Surely not this Templeton Primate..

[Don Corleone]

That’s 4 million pounds/hour for his 15 minutes of fame. Not a bad hourly wage in these tough times.

[mdk1960]

We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is, because He is not anything. Literally, God is not, because He transcends being.
- John Scotus Erigina, A.D. 840, as paraphrased by Philip K. Dick

[fso301]

I’ll read this later.

[Wacka]

So God is a mouse!

Read “So Long and Thanks for all the Fish.” by the late Douglas Adams to see what I am talking about.

[D-fendr]

From what little I can tell from the article, the prize is for “predicting.”

It reads to me like the scientific part is a restatement of Bell’s Theorem/EPR Paradox.

[Pinetop]

Well,that explains a lot. The theories of quantum mechanics also explain the afterlife.

Well, now you know that there is an invisible world and we live in it.

[Wacka]

Wrong book. Read all of his Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy series.

[shibumi]

Where's my check?

[WVNan]

Wow! It is strange to find someone who has figured this out in the same way that I have. I do think the String theory is the most plausible one for creation/God.