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FREE THE GOD THEORY: UNIVERSES, ZERO-POINT FILEDS, AND WHATS BEHIND IT ALL PDF Bernard Haisch | 176 pages | 01 Apr 2009 | RED WHEEL/WEISER | 9781578634361 | English | Maine, United States The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields and What's Behind It All A remarkable discovery has gradually emerged in astrophysics over the past two decades and is now essentially undisputed: that certain key physical constants have just the right values to make life possible. In principle these constants could have taken on values wildly different from what they actually are, but instead they are in some cases within a few percent of the Zero-Point Fileds right" values permitting us to exist in this universe. As Sir Martin Rees, the British Astronomer Royal and one of the world's foremost cosmologists writes in his and Whats Behind It All read Just Six Numbers: "Our emergence and survival depend on very special 'tuning' of the cosmos -- a cosmos that may be vaster than the universe that we can actually see. Science today is The God Theory: Universes on the premises of materialism, reductionism, and randomness. Materialism is the belief that reality consists solely of matter and energy, the things that can be measured in the laboratory or observed by a telescope. Everything else is illusion or The God Theory: Universes. Reductionism is the belief that complex things can be explained by examining the constituent pieces, such as the illusion of consciousness arising from elementary chemical processes in the brain. Randomness is the conviction that natural processes follow the laws of chance within their allowed range of behavior. Given those beliefs there is one and only one way to explain the fine-tuning of the universe. An infinite number of universes must exist, each with unique properties, each randomly different from the other, with ours only seemingly special because in a universe with different properties The God Theory: Universes would never have originated. Our existence is only possible in this particular universe, hence the tuning is an illusion. First and Whats Behind It All all, quantum fluctuations are a key ingredient of inflation theories that attempt to address how our universe, and myriad others, The God Theory: Universes into being. The problem is that quantum fluctuations presuppose the existence of quantum laws. If there truly were no quantum laws or any other laws whatsoever, nothing could happen. No laws, no action. The origin of universes as a result of quantum laws, inflation fields, or other arcane properties of string theory depends upon the preexistence of Zero-Point Fileds laws or fields. And so even the skeptical scientist cannot avoid taking that on faith. The second problem is that none of the other universes can ever be observed, not even in principle, since trying to measure across universes with different fundamental laws would be like using a microphone to observe the moon or using a telescope to record a rock band. So yet a second article of faith is required The God Theory: Universes the modern scientist: the existence of an infinite number of unseen universes. The final problem is more personal. If we are nothing but physical beings originating by chance in a random universe, then there really can be no ultimate purpose in our lives. This is not only bad news for us individually, it undermines the ethical and moral underpinnings of society and civilization. I propose a theory in this book that The God Theory: Universes provide a purpose for our lives while at the same time being completely consistent with everything we have discovered about the universe and about life on earth, in particular the Big Bang, a 4. The single difference between the theory I propose and the ideas current in modern astrophysics is that I assume that an infinite conscious intelligence preexists. You cannot get away from the preexistence of something, and whether that is an ensemble of physical laws generating infinite random universes or an infinite conscious intelligence is something present-day science cannot resolve, and indeed one view is not more rational than the other. One might argue that one view is supported by evidence and the other is not. I would agree one hundred percent. The evidence for the existence of an infinite conscious intelligence is abundant in the accounts of the mystics and the meditative, prayerful, and sometimes spontaneous exceptional experiences of human beings throughout history. The evidence for random universes is precisely zero. Most scientists will reject the former type of evidence as merely subjective, but that simply reduces the contest of views to a draw: zero on both sides. What I propose is an infinite conscious intelligence -- so let's call it God -- who has infinite potential, whose The God Theory: Universes become the laws of physics of our universe and others, and whose purpose in so doing The God Theory: Universes the transformation of potential into experience. The difference between being able to do something and actually doing it is vast: making it happen, experiencing what it feels like, savoring the The God Theory: Universes are the tremendous difference between theory and practice. Playing the game is far more satisfying than reading the rules. Astrophysicist Sir James Jeans wrote in the s, " And the purpose is for God to experience his potential. God's ideas and abilities The God Theory: Universes God's experience in the life of every sentient being. What greater purpose could there be for each of us humans than that of creating God's experience? God experiences the richness of his potential through us because we are the incarnations of him in the physical realm. See Amazon Customer Reviews. Preface The God Theory Zero-Point Fileds Purpose-Guided Universe A remarkable discovery has gradually emerged in astrophysics over the past two decades and is now essentially undisputed: that certain key physical constants have just the right values to make life possible. This view suffers from three problems. The God Theory: Universes what it's all about. The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields and What's Behind It All by Bernard Haisch Please type in your email address in order to receive an email with instructions on how to reset your password. On the one hand, we have traditional science, based on the premises of materialism, reductionism, and randomness, with a belief that reality consists solely of matter and Whats Behind It All energy, that everything can be measured in the laboratory or observed by a telescope. If it can't, it doesn't exist. On the other hand, we have traditional religious dogma concerning God that and Whats Behind It All to take into account evolution, a 4. In The God Theory, Bernard Haisch discards both these worldviews and proposes a theory that provides purpose for our lives while at the same time being completely consistent with everything we have discovered about the universe and life on Earth. To wit, Newton was right-there is a God-and wrong-this is not merely a Zero-Point Fileds world. Haisch proposes that science will explain God and God will explain science. Consciousness is not a mere epiphenomenon of the brain; it is our connection to God, the source of all consciousness. Ultimately it is consciousness that creates matter and not vice versa. New discoveries in physics point to a background and Whats Behind It All of quantum light underlying the universe. The God Theory offers a worldview that incorporates cutting-edge science and ancient mystical knowledge. This is nothing less than a revolution in our understanding. By clicking "Notify Me" you consent to receiving electronic marketing communications from Audiobooks. You will be able to unsubscribe at any time. Sign up Login. Remember Me. Forgot your password? Close Login. Forgot Password. Close Reset Password. Processing Please Don't Refresh the Zero-Point Fileds. Play Sample. Give as a Gift Send this book as a Gift! Book Rating. Unabridged Audiobook. Join Audiobook Club. Date: October Duration: 5 The God Theory: Universes 42 minutes. Similar Titles. This title is due for release on October 24, Please Log in and add this title to your wishlist. We will send you an email as soon as this title is available. Join the Conversation. All Rights Reserved. The seeds that gave meaning to my life were planted at an early age. They came to Indiana because my mother's sister and her husband had moved there after the war. Postwar Germany, even in the s, was a pretty bleak place and America was the golden land of opportunity. My aunt sent glowing and exaggerated letters back to my mother about a bakery that was available on the south side of Indianapolis; it was cheap and they could all go into business together. When my parents arrived with a few trunks, a few dollars, and one kid—me—the bakery opportunity proved to be only half-baked. I'm glad. Otherwise, I might have been a baker and this might have been Zero-Point Fileds cookbook. My early childhood was shaped by a scrupulously religious Catholic mother and by the good Sisters Zero-Point Fileds Providence at St. Catherine of Sienna parochial school in Indianapolis who started each school day by herding us all to mass, on the assumption that this was the best prelude Zero-Point Fileds reading, writing, arithmetic, and, of course, catechism. In fact, my mother wanted me to become a priest, and I'm sure she sent a lot of prayers heavenward to that effect. Now, being a priest would have been Zero-Point Fileds exciting than being a baker, but as a child, I always loved science.