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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

The Universe is what the Universe is

The suggestion that God deliberately created the world complicated and even incomprehensible so to give us challenges? Well, maybe.  The universe certainly is not what we expected and there appear to be things about it that are beyond us, but why?

I think the universe is what it is; sometimes easy to understand, but the further we get away from what seems intuitive the more difficult it will progressively become to "understand."  This is predictable -- stuff at the cosmic large and cosmically small seem counterintuitive, demonstrable experimentally and often predictable mathematically, but still way outside our daily experience and therefore our intuition has no value.

There are two proposed "interpretations" of the double-split experiment, neither of which comes even close to understandability or acceptability to me at least -- the Copenhagen and the multi-universe or infinitely splitting multi-universe.  The first implies observer interference (even if the observer is just a rock) and the second is just way too extravagant.  Still, if that is the way things are, then that is the way they are.

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