Discovering God's Secrets

IN the summer of 2008 the Swiss physicist Nicolas Gisin in a laboratory in Geneva aimed a blue laser beam at a crystal. Don't ask me the technicalities because I don't have the foggiest idea. But let us just accept that he isolated two identical photons. Twins. One of them he sent through a glass fiber cable to a village to the east of Geneva and the other in the exact opposite direction to the west. The distances each one travelled were in both cases 17.5 kms.

Gisin's team of scientists at both destinations measured the results.  What surprised them was the speed that the photon was able to communicate information of its changed state to its twin. It was at least 10,000 times faster than the speed of light. In other words instantaneous. That is amazing enough. But there is the unsolvable question of how.  How do two particles 35 kms apart know what the other is doing?

And what does this mean for man's relationship with his creator?  Or if there is no creator, then man's relationship with the greater and lesser universe. With nature.

It is being postulated by some scientists according to an article in the German magazine 'PM' (December 2010) that God, if such there be, would be able to create 'coincidences'  (can we also take this to mean synchronicities?) to achieve his desired results without breaking any of the laws of physics.

Werner Heisenberg who was awarded the Nobel prize in 1932 for the discovery of quantum mechanics said: The first drink from the beaker of natural science makes one an atheist but at the bottom of the beaker God is waiting.


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