Tuesday, November 17, 2009

scientific spiritualism

We were infinite once, I think.

Because all of the particles inside of us were around in the form of radiation energy right after the big bang (conservation of energy/mass gives us that much), and back when the energy of the particles inside of us was much less than the temperature of the universe times the boltzmann constant, our particles behaved like massless particles and contributed to the cosmic background radiation.

At that point I think that the mass of the particles probably still made the time dilation non-finite, but you could at least think of the interactions of those particles forming energy in the form of photons, and photons have infinite time dilation due to zero rest mass.

So at one point, even if only abstractly, the things inside of us were infinite.

2 comments:

Paul said...

The Big Bang is however a very materialistic theory! To mix them with a more spiritualistic approach to science/worldview is like mixing stones with water.

I would propose the lecture of the article of José Jover about the "Awakening to the Field of Consciousness". It explains what foundation already exist for a spiritualistic science.

Lindsay said...

why can't materialism be spiritual? i kind of view science as a subset of spirituality, like a dimension curled inside a larger dimension. in that case, seeing traces of spiritual things like the infinite makes sense. and the particles that make us up were arguably infinite... in a loose way this means to me that i am connected with both material and spiritual infinity.

i'll check out the article.