2020.02.22 03:00
Until the End of Time: Physicist Brian Greene on the Poetry of Existence and the Wellspring of Meaning in Our Ephemeral Lives Amid an Impartial Universe – Brain Pickings
https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/02/21/brian-greene-until-the-end-of-time/
2020.02.22 03:15
2020.02.22 20:09
Was there time and/or space before the Big Bang?
Not until the great explosion followed by the creation of energy or mass.
I don't know which came first and next.
Our universe could be the lonely one or one of many, many universes.
There are talks of parallel or multiple universes.
Are there four forces in our universe? Which are they? Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine in America?
There must be the fifth one to gravity, electromagnetic force, strong force, and weak force.
These are parts of my mind-boggling questions, quizzes, and confusion.
That's the time of my chanting "마하반야바라밀다 심경".
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Have a happy day, Dr. 이.
2020.02.23 01:45
Thank you, Dr. Chung, for your comment and relevant questions.
Brian Greene and Carl Sagan are brilliant minds and are Jewish
who are atheists.
Here in the below, I will quote Henri Nouwen's statement
on Eternal life, which basically summarizes Christianity's essence
of teaching on Eternal life.
When Is Eternal Life?
Eternal life. Where is it? When is it?
For a long time, I have thought about eternal life as life after
all my birthdays have run out.
For most of my years, I have spoken about eternal life as the afterlife,
as life after death. But the older I become, the less interest my afterlife holds for me.
Worrying not only about tomorrow, next year, and the next decade, but
even about the next life seems a false preoccupation.
Wondering how things will be for me after I die seems, for the most part, a distraction.
When my clear goal is eternal life, that life must be reachable right now,
where I am, because eternal life is life in and with God, and God is where I am
here and now.
The great mystery of the spiritual life - the life in God - is that we don't have to wait for it
as something that will happen later. Jesus says: "Dwell in me as I dwell in you."
It is this divine in-dwelling that is eternal life.
It is the active presence of God at the center of my living - the movement of God's Spirit
within us - that gives us eternal life.
But still, what about life after death?
When we live in communion with God, when we belong to God's own household,
there is no longer any before or after.
Death is no longer the dividing line.
Death has lost its power over those who belong to God,
because God is the God of the living, not of the dead.
Once we have tasted the joy and peace that come from being embraced
by God's love, we know that all is well and will be well.
'Don't be afraid," Jesus says, "I have overcome the powers of death ...
come and dwell with me and know where I am your God is."
When eternal life is our clear goal, it is not a distant goal.
It is a goal that can be reached at the present moment.
When our heart understands this divine truth,
we are living the spiritual life.
The great spiritual challenge is to discover, over time, that
the limited, conditional, and temporal love we receive from
parents, husbands, wives, children, teachers, colleagues, and
friends are a reflection of the unlimited, unconditional, and
the everlasting love of God.
Whenever we can make that huge leap of faith
we will know that death is no longer the end but
the gateway to the fullness of the Divine Love.
... Henri Nouwen
... from the book, "The Only Necessary Thing" 1999
2020.02.23 20:28
I am very impressed with the above writing from The Only Necessary Thing.
What a powerful lecturing it was !
Thank you very much , Dr. 이.
Brian Randolph Greene[1] (born February 9, 1963) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician, and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds(concretely, relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds). He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point. (from the Internet)
A nice review and summary of the "Reality" of humans in the universe, I believe.
Many years ago I read two of his early books, titled "The Elegant Universe" and "The Theory of Relativity, Then and Now"