The Quantum Theory, The Gospel of Thomas, & The Kingdom of the
Father
INTRODUCTION:
This is an effort to look at the first 20 sayings of the
Gospel of Thomas from the viewpoint of the Many Worlds of the
Quantum Theory and General Relativity. No great effort will be
made here to defend QT and GR, and very little time will be
spent explaining them. They have been the undisputed absolute
Kings of Science for 75 years. It also assumes knowledge of the Gospel
of Thomas.
Here's the quick summary: The Everett Many Worlds
Interpretation of the Quantum Theory is perhaps the
most popular fundamental explanation of the Universe with top
physicists. It's the same thing as the movie Back to the Future.
In some worlds, Biff is washing the car, in some he's silly rich, in
some he's dead, and in some he lives forever. You get the same exact
set of Many Worlds, with exactly the same relationships if you accept
the Ockams Razor solution of the Universe Big Banging and Big
Crunching
forever. It's like shaking a pool table. If you do it long enough,
the balls will re rack themselves. It produces the same Biff washing
the car/silly rich/dead/living forever. The "you" in that
other World is just as much "you" as the "you" of tomorrow
morning. In some cases, much more so. You can roughly calculate
it.
Granted everyone sees what they want in the words of Jesus,
no doubt that was one of Jesus's big tricks, the
effect that had and has on people. But I'm tellin' ya' it's
downright spooky how Jesus seems to be talking about modern Many
Worlds physics. And it's worth pointing out, that Thomas, unlike all
other gospels, has no contradictions of science whatsoever. No walking
on water, no supernatural stuff whatsoever. Science don't know
everything, and it never will, but if you directly contradict
it, it's not a good sign. And in that respect, the Gospel of Thomas
stands alone.
MANY WORLDS, & THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS
1 "These are the hidden sayings that the
living Jesus spoke and Judas who is also Thomas recorded.
And he said, "Whoever finds the interpretation of these
sayings will not taste death."
It's also known as Quantum Immortality. A spooky subject.
2 Jesus said, "Let the one seeking not stop seeking
until he finds. And when he finds he will marvel, and
marveling he will reign, and reigning he will rest."
"Anyone that is not shocked by the Quantum Theory has not
understood it." Neils Bohr (You could say he's the father of
the Quantum Theory.)
"I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with
it." "Let me say at the outset, that in this discourse, I am
opposing not a few special statements of quantum mechanics
held today (1950s), I am opposing as it were the whole of it,
I am opposing its basic views that have been shaped 25 years
ago, when Max Born put forward his probability interpretation,
which was accepted by almost everybody." Erwin Schrodinger
(Who's Wave Equation has produced all the miracles of modern
science in the last 75 years.)
"God doesn't play dice with the Universe." Al Einstein (Who
invented both the Quantum Theory and General Relativity, then
spent the rest of his life denouncing the Quantum Theory. The
Many Worlds Interpretation wasn't published until after his
death. I suspect he would have been thrilled, and would have
seen it's truth instantly. Perhaps even stogy old Schrodinger.
Hard to say about Bohr, he's the one that created the
competitive Copenhagen Interpretation that dominated all science
for most of the last 75 years, and drove Einstein up the wall.
Einstein
was right, Bohr was wrong. Like that's a big shock.)
3a Jesus said, "If those pulling you say to
you, 'Look, the kingdom is in the sky,' the birds
of the sky will go before you. Or if they say that it is beneath
the ground, the fish of the sea will go in, preceding you. And the
kingdom of God is within you and outside you.
Breathtaking. With 18 and 113, the fundamental worldview of
Jesus. This is Heaven. This is our eternal life. We are part
of the Kingdom.
3b Whoever knows himself will find this and when you
know yourselves you will know that you are children of
the living father. But if you will not know yourselves,
you are in poverty and you are the poverty."
If everything that can happen, does happen, and it's a matter
of probability where you land, why make the effort? Because
that contingent part, that Free Will part, the branching into
the Many Worlds part is the part of the Quantum Theory that
you can prove, with formal math, is eternally unknowable. The
part where the Quantum Theory will eternally fail to describe the
Kingdom of the Father. The part where you can prove Free Will, and
the Kingdom of the Father is eternally Unknowable. You can't control
any particular roll of dice, but you can control what kind of person
you are, what rolls of the dice you are confronted with. Know
yourself.
4 Jesus said, "A person old in days will not
hesitate to ask a child seven days old about his place in
life and he will live. For many of the first will be last
and many of the last will be first and they will become
one."
The first you of one Big Bang/Crunch World will be the last
you of another, and they are both you. (And if you can make
the two into one, you won't taste death.)
5 Jesus said, "Know what is in front of your face and what has been
hidden from you will be revealed to you. For there is nothing hidden
that will not be made clear and nothing buried that will not be
raised."
Oh, in an infinite number of the Many Worlds, any particular
secret of yours will be revealed to the world. And people that
are buried will show up again an infinite number of times.
6 His disciples questioned him and said, "How should we
fast and how should we pray, and how should we do
charitable deeds and what food law should we observe?"
Jesus said, "Do not lie and that which you hate, do
not do because everything is evident before the truth. For
there is nothing hidden that will not be made clear."
The Golden Rule is good logical advice. No wise man is going
to leave that one out. One thing's for sure, in another of the
Many Worlds, your secrets will be known, and they will have
the opportunity to do unto you in return.
7 Jesus said, "Lucky is the lion that the human will eat,
so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that
the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human."
Jesus is pointing out the localization of self is an illusion.
You are turning breakfast into you all the time. The old you
is constantly replaced with new stuff. Whatever particular
molecule you are made out of doesn't matter. You don't have to
worry about the other "you" in another Big Bang/Crunch using
some exact same molecules. Gotta abandon that simplistic
notion of self, the reward is great.
8 And he said, The person is like a wise fisherman who
cast his net into the sea and drew it up from the sea full
of little fish. Among them the wise fisherman discovered a
fine large fish. He threw all the little fish back into
the sea, and easily chose the large fish. Anyone here with
two good ears had better listen!
9 Jesus said, Look, the sower went out, took a handful (of
seeds), and scattered (them). Some fell on the road, and
the birds came and gathered them. Others fell on rock, and
they didn't take root in the soil and didn't produce heads
of grain. Others fell on thorns, and they choked the seeds
and worms ate them. And others fell on good soil, and it
produced a good crop: it yielded sixty per measure and one hundred
twenty per measure.
Well, those two are some of Jesus's way of dealing with
hecklers and those who weren't impressed. One liner put downs.
10 Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the
world, and look, I'm guarding it until it blazes."
No particular application. Damned if he didn't. Half the
people on earth think he's at least a prophet. The good and
evil done in his name...
11a Jesus said, "This heaven will pass away,
and the one above it will pass away.
A Big Bang is followed by a Big Crunch, followed by a Big
Bang, followed by a Big Crunch...
11b The dead are not alive, and the living will not die.
You'll be back, (and you will live this life until you are
over a billion years old.)
11c During the days when you ate what is dead, you made it
come alive. When you are in the light, what will you do?
On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you
become two, what will you do?"
You become two constantly. Two different Many Worlds. Qubits.
Quantum bits. It from bit. And if you can make the two into
one, if you realize they are both you, in case I haven't
mentioned it, you won't know death.
Continued in post 2
Father
INTRODUCTION:
This is an effort to look at the first 20 sayings of the
Gospel of Thomas from the viewpoint of the Many Worlds of the
Quantum Theory and General Relativity. No great effort will be
made here to defend QT and GR, and very little time will be
spent explaining them. They have been the undisputed absolute
Kings of Science for 75 years. It also assumes knowledge of the Gospel
of Thomas.
Here's the quick summary: The Everett Many Worlds
Interpretation of the Quantum Theory is perhaps the
most popular fundamental explanation of the Universe with top
physicists. It's the same thing as the movie Back to the Future.
In some worlds, Biff is washing the car, in some he's silly rich, in
some he's dead, and in some he lives forever. You get the same exact
set of Many Worlds, with exactly the same relationships if you accept
the Ockams Razor solution of the Universe Big Banging and Big
Crunching
forever. It's like shaking a pool table. If you do it long enough,
the balls will re rack themselves. It produces the same Biff washing
the car/silly rich/dead/living forever. The "you" in that
other World is just as much "you" as the "you" of tomorrow
morning. In some cases, much more so. You can roughly calculate
it.
Granted everyone sees what they want in the words of Jesus,
no doubt that was one of Jesus's big tricks, the
effect that had and has on people. But I'm tellin' ya' it's
downright spooky how Jesus seems to be talking about modern Many
Worlds physics. And it's worth pointing out, that Thomas, unlike all
other gospels, has no contradictions of science whatsoever. No walking
on water, no supernatural stuff whatsoever. Science don't know
everything, and it never will, but if you directly contradict
it, it's not a good sign. And in that respect, the Gospel of Thomas
stands alone.
MANY WORLDS, & THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS
1 "These are the hidden sayings that the
living Jesus spoke and Judas who is also Thomas recorded.
And he said, "Whoever finds the interpretation of these
sayings will not taste death."
It's also known as Quantum Immortality. A spooky subject.
2 Jesus said, "Let the one seeking not stop seeking
until he finds. And when he finds he will marvel, and
marveling he will reign, and reigning he will rest."
"Anyone that is not shocked by the Quantum Theory has not
understood it." Neils Bohr (You could say he's the father of
the Quantum Theory.)
"I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with
it." "Let me say at the outset, that in this discourse, I am
opposing not a few special statements of quantum mechanics
held today (1950s), I am opposing as it were the whole of it,
I am opposing its basic views that have been shaped 25 years
ago, when Max Born put forward his probability interpretation,
which was accepted by almost everybody." Erwin Schrodinger
(Who's Wave Equation has produced all the miracles of modern
science in the last 75 years.)
"God doesn't play dice with the Universe." Al Einstein (Who
invented both the Quantum Theory and General Relativity, then
spent the rest of his life denouncing the Quantum Theory. The
Many Worlds Interpretation wasn't published until after his
death. I suspect he would have been thrilled, and would have
seen it's truth instantly. Perhaps even stogy old Schrodinger.
Hard to say about Bohr, he's the one that created the
competitive Copenhagen Interpretation that dominated all science
for most of the last 75 years, and drove Einstein up the wall.
Einstein
was right, Bohr was wrong. Like that's a big shock.)
3a Jesus said, "If those pulling you say to
you, 'Look, the kingdom is in the sky,' the birds
of the sky will go before you. Or if they say that it is beneath
the ground, the fish of the sea will go in, preceding you. And the
kingdom of God is within you and outside you.
Breathtaking. With 18 and 113, the fundamental worldview of
Jesus. This is Heaven. This is our eternal life. We are part
of the Kingdom.
3b Whoever knows himself will find this and when you
know yourselves you will know that you are children of
the living father. But if you will not know yourselves,
you are in poverty and you are the poverty."
If everything that can happen, does happen, and it's a matter
of probability where you land, why make the effort? Because
that contingent part, that Free Will part, the branching into
the Many Worlds part is the part of the Quantum Theory that
you can prove, with formal math, is eternally unknowable. The
part where the Quantum Theory will eternally fail to describe the
Kingdom of the Father. The part where you can prove Free Will, and
the Kingdom of the Father is eternally Unknowable. You can't control
any particular roll of dice, but you can control what kind of person
you are, what rolls of the dice you are confronted with. Know
yourself.
4 Jesus said, "A person old in days will not
hesitate to ask a child seven days old about his place in
life and he will live. For many of the first will be last
and many of the last will be first and they will become
one."
The first you of one Big Bang/Crunch World will be the last
you of another, and they are both you. (And if you can make
the two into one, you won't taste death.)
5 Jesus said, "Know what is in front of your face and what has been
hidden from you will be revealed to you. For there is nothing hidden
that will not be made clear and nothing buried that will not be
raised."
Oh, in an infinite number of the Many Worlds, any particular
secret of yours will be revealed to the world. And people that
are buried will show up again an infinite number of times.
6 His disciples questioned him and said, "How should we
fast and how should we pray, and how should we do
charitable deeds and what food law should we observe?"
Jesus said, "Do not lie and that which you hate, do
not do because everything is evident before the truth. For
there is nothing hidden that will not be made clear."
The Golden Rule is good logical advice. No wise man is going
to leave that one out. One thing's for sure, in another of the
Many Worlds, your secrets will be known, and they will have
the opportunity to do unto you in return.
7 Jesus said, "Lucky is the lion that the human will eat,
so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that
the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human."
Jesus is pointing out the localization of self is an illusion.
You are turning breakfast into you all the time. The old you
is constantly replaced with new stuff. Whatever particular
molecule you are made out of doesn't matter. You don't have to
worry about the other "you" in another Big Bang/Crunch using
some exact same molecules. Gotta abandon that simplistic
notion of self, the reward is great.
8 And he said, The person is like a wise fisherman who
cast his net into the sea and drew it up from the sea full
of little fish. Among them the wise fisherman discovered a
fine large fish. He threw all the little fish back into
the sea, and easily chose the large fish. Anyone here with
two good ears had better listen!
9 Jesus said, Look, the sower went out, took a handful (of
seeds), and scattered (them). Some fell on the road, and
the birds came and gathered them. Others fell on rock, and
they didn't take root in the soil and didn't produce heads
of grain. Others fell on thorns, and they choked the seeds
and worms ate them. And others fell on good soil, and it
produced a good crop: it yielded sixty per measure and one hundred
twenty per measure.
Well, those two are some of Jesus's way of dealing with
hecklers and those who weren't impressed. One liner put downs.
10 Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the
world, and look, I'm guarding it until it blazes."
No particular application. Damned if he didn't. Half the
people on earth think he's at least a prophet. The good and
evil done in his name...
11a Jesus said, "This heaven will pass away,
and the one above it will pass away.
A Big Bang is followed by a Big Crunch, followed by a Big
Bang, followed by a Big Crunch...
11b The dead are not alive, and the living will not die.
You'll be back, (and you will live this life until you are
over a billion years old.)
11c During the days when you ate what is dead, you made it
come alive. When you are in the light, what will you do?
On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you
become two, what will you do?"
You become two constantly. Two different Many Worlds. Qubits.
Quantum bits. It from bit. And if you can make the two into
one, if you realize they are both you, in case I haven't
mentioned it, you won't know death.
Continued in post 2