So on my vacation I decided I wasn't going to read anything church related. I picked up a book by someone I heard interviewed on the CBC a few months ago. It's called Quantum Zoo and the idea is to take the most difficult aspects of theoretical physics and makee them understandable to someone without the background; like me.
Okay, I can't say the pages flew by or that I really get it all, but I did grasp some of the basic ideas on the outer edge of science. I guess it's not typical pleasure readding but it did stretch my brain in a new direction.
Most interesting to me is the idea that a lot of the assumptions I was taught in school are not entirely true. At it's most basic levels the universe doesn't play by the rules it's supposed to.
2 things that intrigue me:
-the ultimate truth of the universe is light, not time or space. The Bible says a lot about light as God's first creation, an aspect of his character, and the role his pople are supposed to paly in the world (Discuss)
-The endless debate about the source and age of the world really is pointless. Time and space are not necessarily consistent. What's more important than how or when the world began is why and by who...
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