tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post761080826164965196..comments2024-01-22T11:42:42.772+08:00Comments on FideCogitActio : omnis per gratiam: GodCodgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-61362659627339424292007-11-21T00:15:00.000+08:002007-11-21T00:15:00.000+08:00Yes, Skullfog, I'm pretty sure it was thou that di...Yes, Skullfog, I'm pretty sure it was thou that didst plant that idea in mine ye olde brane (ouch, pun intended!). I'm patently incompetent in physics so I can't make solid claims about observer wave-collapse theory. BRAING IT!Codgitator (Cadgertator)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-83369213221167608102007-11-20T02:39:00.000+08:002007-11-20T02:39:00.000+08:00"God as the observer which collapses (collapsed?) ..."God as the observer which collapses (collapsed?) the quantum wave which brought our universe into actual existence" is kind of a consequence of a "consciousness causes collapse" (one of many: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretation_of_quantum_mechanics) interpretation of Q.M. if you assume that our (human) consciousness isn't retroactively able to cause the collapse of early-universe wave functions.<BR/><BR/>Or to ask the question in as a sound-bite: Who was there to cause the collapse of the wavefuctions after the big bang and before life evolved?<BR/><BR/>(Aside: this was [one of] the punchline[s] to the lecture I gave at the English service at banner when you were gone for a couple of weeks)D.J. Skull-Foghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02721272702219866836noreply@blogger.com