Listening to NPR this morning, I heard an interview with an internationally renowned physicist named Carlo Rivelli, describing the modern understanding of reality. He has written a book on physics that borders on the spiritual. The border between science and spirituality is thinning. This is a good thing when we try to understand the reality of the things we cannot measure.
The meat of the current understanding is that we perceive the universe not in terms of things but of relationships between things. Even down into the quantum level this proves true that objects are not defined by their intrinsic existence but by their relation to the objects around them. People have had this existence defined by our relationships as long as we have written our history and philosophy down for future generations to see.
Interraction of people, interraction of particles, interraction of forces, interraction ad infinatum all defines what is real and what is not. Time is the memory and expectation of interraction. Space is the degree of interraction between points. All of the universe is a grand relationship. That’s infinitely cool.
I urge everyone to read Seven Lessons on Physics, by Carlo Rivelli, and give me a book report. I would read it for myself had I a copy. I could find a sermon in this.
Yes, I understand this to be true as well. This is an exciting new field where all that is derives from many into one. I am eager to learn if Rivelli is talking about this Teilhardt is another one who tries to explain this, among many others. I have not read this book, but Cynthia Rourgeault and Father Richard Rohr expound on the dualism, and non dualism and the need for us to accept and stop trying to measure everything. To me, it mostly is narrowed down to accepting that parallel universes are possible. Ezekiel 36:24-28
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