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- From: lamontg@stein.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
- Subject: Re: Baez's "the right question".
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.075045.15999@u.washington.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:50:45 GMT
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- sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
- >Baez quotes Smolin:
- > Mathematics will do us little good if
- >we have not yet stumbled upon the right new questions;
- >
- >I assert that the right question is to question the truth of causality
- >in the sense that causes must always precede effects in all frames of
- >reference. How the universe comes into being and why the masses and
- >charges etc are what they are makes much more sense if one entertains
- >the hypothesis that the universe is created by design by an advanced
- >future intelligence within that universe.
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- Q: What cause precedes creation of virtual particles/vacuum fluctuations?
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- A: God.
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- uh huh.
-
- Jack meet Werner, Werner meet Jack...
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- --
- Lamont Granquist lamontg@u.washington.edu
- "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases."
- -- Robert Anton Wilson
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