Friday, September 03, 2010
Perpetual Causality
": a principle in physics: the total energy of an isolated system remains constant irrespective of whatever internal changes may take place with energy disappearing in one form reappearing in another" ~ 1st Law of Thermodynamics - Merriam-Webster Dictionary
What does the above video about the 10th Dimension have to do with the 1st Law of Thermodynamics? Well...nothing, really. Not unless you examine a third factor, the title of this entry regarding causality. Causality, as you ought to know, is the relation between a cause and its effect or between regularly correlated events or phenomena, as the dictionary defines it.
A friend of mine raised the question recently, regarding perpetual motion and generating energy from nothing. This, of course, would be impossible since the 1st Law of Thermodynamics renders such an impossibility from ever happening. This friend of mine is also a religious sort, so my next observation will exclude her from this view.
Atheists often use the excuse that the Universe could not have possibly been created out of nothing simply because the 1st Law of Thermodynamics or conservation of energy forbids it. They believe that the 1st Law of Thermodynamics, which makes it clear that nothing is ever created, renders the entire Universe as a forever-changing network of energy. I, too, pondered this very concept almost 7 years ago within the very walls of this House.
The dilemma that we are facing here, at the atheists' expense of course, is that if the Universe consists of energy that was never created, that means that it has always been here in some way, shape, or form. And if that is the case, then atheists have to believe that everything that they believe is not divine has been here eternally; an infinity in the past destined to be for an infinity into the future.
This is where the concept in the 10th Dimension video comes into play, because we are then suddenly faced with the idea that if all things are contained within a 10th dimensional point, then it too is merely a small part of a macro-dimensional point that contains all other points inside it. And so on...and so on...and so on...
Where causality becomes perpetual in this concept is simple. Effect cannot happen without cause. A perpetual motion is an everlasting motion, a constant, never ending. So it is as though the cause never happened, or the cause has always happened; either way, the effect has always been there. Hence, the perpetual causality.
The late Carl Sagan would have marveled at this concept if he hasn't already done so. I'm sure that he already has. Great minds think like me!
A religious man will always ask: "Why God?"
An atheist will always ask: "Why bother?"
An agnostic will always reply: "If..."
What does the above video about the 10th Dimension have to do with the 1st Law of Thermodynamics? Well...nothing, really. Not unless you examine a third factor, the title of this entry regarding causality. Causality, as you ought to know, is the relation between a cause and its effect or between regularly correlated events or phenomena, as the dictionary defines it.
A friend of mine raised the question recently, regarding perpetual motion and generating energy from nothing. This, of course, would be impossible since the 1st Law of Thermodynamics renders such an impossibility from ever happening. This friend of mine is also a religious sort, so my next observation will exclude her from this view.
Atheists often use the excuse that the Universe could not have possibly been created out of nothing simply because the 1st Law of Thermodynamics or conservation of energy forbids it. They believe that the 1st Law of Thermodynamics, which makes it clear that nothing is ever created, renders the entire Universe as a forever-changing network of energy. I, too, pondered this very concept almost 7 years ago within the very walls of this House.
The dilemma that we are facing here, at the atheists' expense of course, is that if the Universe consists of energy that was never created, that means that it has always been here in some way, shape, or form. And if that is the case, then atheists have to believe that everything that they believe is not divine has been here eternally; an infinity in the past destined to be for an infinity into the future.
This is where the concept in the 10th Dimension video comes into play, because we are then suddenly faced with the idea that if all things are contained within a 10th dimensional point, then it too is merely a small part of a macro-dimensional point that contains all other points inside it. And so on...and so on...and so on...
Where causality becomes perpetual in this concept is simple. Effect cannot happen without cause. A perpetual motion is an everlasting motion, a constant, never ending. So it is as though the cause never happened, or the cause has always happened; either way, the effect has always been there. Hence, the perpetual causality.
The late Carl Sagan would have marveled at this concept if he hasn't already done so. I'm sure that he already has. Great minds think like me!
A religious man will always ask: "Why God?"
An atheist will always ask: "Why bother?"
An agnostic will always reply: "If..."
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