tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580378912972065231.post2738343641960586827..comments2024-01-04T11:40:48.827-06:00Comments on Dr Michael G Strauss: Probing the God ParticleMichael G Strausshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11580842374977938870noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580378912972065231.post-76671123394054959402018-03-23T15:55:45.915-05:002018-03-23T15:55:45.915-05:00Thanks for sharing your story. Thanks for sharing your story. Michael G Strausshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11580842374977938870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580378912972065231.post-58402091146155542652018-03-22T20:56:42.972-05:002018-03-22T20:56:42.972-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Stetson Familyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12697583852025293333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580378912972065231.post-33772405116696200612018-03-15T14:27:10.155-05:002018-03-15T14:27:10.155-05:00Great discussion, Neal. The Bible uses anthropomor...Great discussion, Neal. The Bible uses anthropomorphisms when referring to God. It uses the masculine pronouns and calls him Father. Of course, God is a spirit and doesn't have a gender but these descriptions help us understand a God who is not fully comprehensible. I think the reason we use human characteristics to describe God is because that is what the Bible does even though the biblical writers know that God cannot be contained nor does he literally have those characteristics.<br /><br />The way we know God is through his revelation in nature, in the Bible, and in the person of Jesus. These revelations give us insight into God in language we can understand, even knowing full well that nature and the Bible are incomplete revelations of God. I do agree that a relationship with God brings ultimately fulfillment in life and that relationship comes through Jesus and matures as we read and study God's letter to us, the Bible.<br /><br />I reconcile the various aspects of God's character by the fact that he is transcendent and incomprehensible. I'm content with living with an incomplete understanding of God, while at the same time, striving to know and understand him more.Michael G Strausshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11580842374977938870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580378912972065231.post-39849626013184573402018-03-14T15:15:28.667-05:002018-03-14T15:15:28.667-05:00I do not understand God either, nor do I believe I...I do not understand God either, nor do I believe I ever will. Because of my experience, I'm certain most of the words we use to describe God are qualities we ascribe to Him to personalize the relationship. Such as the use of the word Him, which is an absolutely rediculous proposition to attach gender to an entity that we have no way of knowing what form it takes. Doing so then has the inevitable consequence of humans attributing human traits to Him, usually in the form of a father that teaches us leasons. Those lessons, in turn, take the form of justice or vengence or love or patience. It is necessary for me that my understanding of God get boiled down to some pretty basic truths. God either exists or does not. I know for certain something does. I call it God because it is the English word used to describe a supernatural being that created the universe and it's laws. Everyone...and I mean EVERYone agrees with the statement God cannot be understood. I am aware some people, maybe most, are just saying God's WORKS cannot be understood. Nonetheless I can make a pretty solid arguement that if God's works cannot be understood, neither can God. Everone agree's God is not human, yet they persist in attributing human characteristics to it and I include myself in "they." It just comes naturally because it makes it easier to articulate the experiences I have that I feel God in. I have come to the conclusion in the last few years, that it is a lot easier than we think to hold seemingly conflicting view points or beliefs under the same set of hairs (or lack of in my case). That being said, here's what I've come to understand about God: it can only be explained to me THROUGH those experiences that redefine my understanding of it. I need to see God through a new pair of glasses every so often because for some reason my previous understanding of God somehow grows somewhat stale. I may still hold on to the understanding or I may not, depending. But it has the tendency to lose it's effect on me. And yet the concepts that the universe uses to grow my relationship with God are usually the same story, told slightly differently, so that the novelty of it refreshes my connection with God and the world around me. This is a somewhat frequent occurance but the really impactful ones happen maybe once or twice a year IF I'm seeking out what God's will is for me. If not, I can go a long time without feeling God's role in my life, and my experience has shown me that this is always disasterous for me. I do not doubt God anymore. I try to avoid "reducing God to managable terms" but it is extremely difficult. Even knowing what I know I still do it!! I've come to peace with this reality though. I think most of my life has been a struggle with reconciling those two conflicting truths but I have stopped fighting it. God is not a man or a teacher or a father, but He teaches me lessons and loves me unconditionally and cares about how I set about trying to set aside my will for His. I can only pray that my understanding of God continues to evolve and grow and deepen because it's the only way I seem to be able to keep that God sized hole full and appreciate life to the fullest, even during the most painful periods of it. Would you agree with this somewhat? How do you reconcile these conflicting facts? That God can be one thing and another at the same time...'super-positioning' as you related it.Stetson Familyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12697583852025293333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580378912972065231.post-46545074069761842352018-02-22T02:36:49.056-06:002018-02-22T02:36:49.056-06:00Thank you very much Dr Strauss, I wonder perhaps i...Thank you very much Dr Strauss, I wonder perhaps if you could further explain super-positioning and entanglement in a future post? Just another mad Catholichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10503510474554718305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580378912972065231.post-12973358161241489692018-02-21T00:21:04.042-06:002018-02-21T00:21:04.042-06:00The underlying assumption of physics is that the l...The underlying assumption of physics is that the laws of physics are the same throughout the universe. We can test that by observing the laws of physics in distant galaxies. Nuclear decay rates and atomic line spectrum, for instance, are the same wherever we look throughout the universe. So we not only "theoretically" achieve the same results, but we can test that assumption for many cases.Michael G Strausshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11580842374977938870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580378912972065231.post-30467748525316180102018-02-20T21:03:08.431-06:002018-02-20T21:03:08.431-06:00Is it accurate to say that an underlying principle...Is it accurate to say that an underlying principle of this CERN project is that the experiments are sampling results from a population that the standard model writ large states is present reality for the laws of the universe. And that CERN has created that reality in a form that permits measurement of its operations.So as in any statistical sampling it surely requires humongous numbers of experiments, tons of data, extreme care in sampling, rejection criteria and due note of sampling error and clarity as to the confidence indicated in results. But is it a cosmic truth that the universe is at least quasi-stable as to its fundamental rules of operation, when did it become so in its history. If you set up such measurements in galactic space would you theoretically achieve the same results. <br /><br />Presidential election predictions certainty suffer from the inability to sample from an unchanging voter attitude universe right up to election day.<br /><br />Funny it seems there might be a parallel to our God and his declaration that "few are they that find the narrow way". Maybe each life is a mini experiment that under free will and over billions of lives bears out that statistic for our observation of a foreknown truth.Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16219283160015859565noreply@blogger.com