Posted on 12/24/2021 2:23:46 PM PST by aimhigh
NASA is looking to the heavens for help with assessing how humans will react if alien life is found on other planets and how the discovery could impact our ideas of gods and creation. The agency is hiring 24 theologians to take part in its program at the Center for Theological Inquiry (CTI) at Princeton University in New Jersey, which NASA gave a $1.1 million grant to in 2014.
CTI is described as building 'bridges of under understanding by convening theologians, scientists, scholars, and policymakers to think together - and inform public thinking - on global concerns.'
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One of the problems in dealing with truly revolutionary concepts is that it is hard to think what we cannot write or say with language.
Understanding how time works will require a radically different way of looking at things—which in turn will require new language.
Scientists are stuck in old paradigms because of the assumptions behind the language that they use.
A simple example of this is the concept of “infinity”.
Georg Cantor had to create a totally new mathematical language to describe the complexities of “infinity”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor
The criticisms of Cantor are rather amusing today—but they are typical of “science”, which is almost always stuck on yesterday.
Here is a long article explaining how this “new language” opened up breakthroughs in the “real world”.
https://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~nunez/COGS260/JoP_InfinityR.pdf
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