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I have just started following you. At 70, I’ve traveled from disbelief to theology to quantum physics and find myself now resting in divine mystery. Below is a poem I read recently from James R. Dennis that had an interesting take on science and religion. From his poetry collection Correspondence in D Minor.
I look forward to your future posts.
Janet Cramer
LETTER TO HEISENBERG
You said that there was a fundamental limit
to the precision with which
we could measure the complimentary variables
of a particle simultaneously.
So, we can never know the exact position
and the exact speed of a thing contemporaneously.
We call the principle “uncertainty,” which is
an interesting way of saying we cannot know what we know.
This, of course, becomes a metaphor
for all sorts of events, most of them
less interesting than both quantum mechanics
and the multifarious nature of things.
Therefore, Werner, I have begun to think that you heard
a music beyond sound, a music that lies beneath the natural world,
and perhaps the other world as well,
and the reality to which both point.
You were right: the first few sips of science lead to disbelief,
Hello from someone travelling a similar path. At the age of 70 I've come to the stage in life where the unknowing, or the uncertainty principle is a given, therein lies the certainty which is truth. We try to grasp it but it doesn’t exist in a materialistic way. It isn't conceptual. It's paradoxical.
I have just started following you. At 70, I’ve traveled from disbelief to theology to quantum physics and find myself now resting in divine mystery. Below is a poem I read recently from James R. Dennis that had an interesting take on science and religion. From his poetry collection Correspondence in D Minor.
I look forward to your future posts.
Janet Cramer
LETTER TO HEISENBERG
You said that there was a fundamental limit
to the precision with which
we could measure the complimentary variables
of a particle simultaneously.
So, we can never know the exact position
and the exact speed of a thing contemporaneously.
We call the principle “uncertainty,” which is
an interesting way of saying we cannot know what we know.
This, of course, becomes a metaphor
for all sorts of events, most of them
less interesting than both quantum mechanics
and the multifarious nature of things.
Therefore, Werner, I have begun to think that you heard
a music beyond sound, a music that lies beneath the natural world,
and perhaps the other world as well,
and the reality to which both point.
You were right: the first few sips of science lead to disbelief,
but God waits for you at the bottom of the glass.
Hello from someone travelling a similar path. At the age of 70 I've come to the stage in life where the unknowing, or the uncertainty principle is a given, therein lies the certainty which is truth. We try to grasp it but it doesn’t exist in a materialistic way. It isn't conceptual. It's paradoxical.