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Quantum Polytheism

Kahalachan

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I've never read or heard of this before. So if I'm the first to come up with this idea, the date and time stamp the forums give are proof it came from Kahalachan ;)

I've seen other abuses of quantum mechanics with What the Bleep Do We Know? But for some reason this just popped in my head. Reminder: I'm speaking in terms of a "what if" so I don't believe this.


First, it's very interesting that people always want to think of a god as being very large. Even in pantheism or the Eastern religions god is the entire universe.

So what if we were to mix Western and Eastern perceptions of god and have small gods?

Many gods in tiny particles.

So in the Singularity, which is where measurable time and space breaks down, these gods had their own little community. They were together and spoke of how they would make a universe together. After a game plan was established, they split off all at the same time and made the universe.

These gods either are, or dwell, in particles which can also assume the form of waves.

Superposition is these little mini-gods being omnipresent but choosing a spot to go to.

Entanglement is these little gods communicating to one another instantaneously.

In the singularity it was designated which gods would serve as electrons with the electromagnetic force, some gods decided to take on the role of specific quarks, etc.

Keep in mind, my physics knowledge is limitted to dated college textbooks checked out from a library- since I won't spend a hundred dollars for a brand new one- or through leisure reading.

Also recall, I'm not saying this is true. It just seems like a god belief that surprisingly hasn't surfaced yet. Doesn't seem to be panendeism, not pantheism, but polytheism where the gods are tiny. My intention of putting this out is a question to see if it's been made a public idea before. I don't plan on starting a religion and if someone does found a belief because they independantly thought of an idea similar to my premise, I can say "Hey buddy, I was just having a beer and BSing around. No one should take this idea seriously" :p
 
I've seen this before.

The world is wonderful enough without imagining fairies.

More wonderful without fairies, actually.
 
Complexity said:
I've seen this before.

The world is wonderful enough without imagining fairies.

More wonderful without fairies, actually.
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What's the religion or belief called? Do you know?

I agree we don't need fairies or gods to enjoy the world. But they're fun if we agree it's fiction.
 
I'd like to see a law made so people can be fined for misusing the term "quantum". The money raised can be then be used as funding for figuring the bloody stuff out!
 
how about god as a quantum field?

All hail lord Higgs - giver of mass :)
 
Civilized Worm said:
I'd like to see a law made so people can be fined for misusing the term "quantum". The money raised can be then be used as funding for figuring the bloody stuff out!
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Quantum means indivisible.

Or so I've learned.

Are you talking about when others misuse it? Cause I'm just showing an example of how it can be misused and wondering if this has been thought of before.
 
I think the Big Bang singularity would make a excellent God. It is the source out of which everything came but it is itself a nothingness. So we can talk quite validly of it existing or not existing, according to our preference.

Those of a mystical bent can talk of the wonder of the thing that is not that gave birth to all that is. And the rest of us can just shrug our shoulders and say its just an extensionless point. So there is no real disagreement between believers and atheists - just different ways of looking at it.
 
So there are what, 10^^80 or so sub-microscopic gods, each instantiating a quark or electron or other zero-dimensional particle? Are these full-blown gods with powers akin to those claimed for Yahweh? Or are they mini-gods who are otherwise just sitting around swigging beer and eating pizza and Awrey's crumb cakes? (And how can I join?)
 
chriswl said:
I think the Big Bang singularity would make a excellent God. It is the source out of which everything came but it is itself a nothingness. So we can talk quite validly of it existing or not existing, according to our preference.
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I think in an ever-collapsing-expanding universe the singularity is the pin-prick in space-time between implosion and explosion. It is our only reference point in an expanding universe, so we see it as a "key" event - a creation event. However, if we were on the other side of the event - a collapsing universe - we would use the Big Crunch as our reference point - but you wouldn't call it "God".

So it's easy to call the creation-event 'God', but you also have to call the equivalent annihilation-event 'God' too. And now you are a Hindu.
 
Beerina said:
So there are what, 10^^80 or so sub-microscopic gods, each instantiating a quark or electron or other zero-dimensional particle? Are these full-blown gods with powers akin to those claimed for Yahweh? Or are they mini-gods who are otherwise just sitting around swigging beer and eating pizza and Awrey's crumb cakes? (And how can I join?)
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Yep, pretty much according to this belief.

Which is backwards from conventional theism. Deities aren't big and they outnumber all humans.

These mini-gods form beer and fully enjoy the beer by "being the beer." They do more than just eat pizza, they are the pizza. Ooooooooohhhhhhhh...........how deep:p
 
QP's Saviour?

Christians worship Jesus:

"He died so that ye may know eternal life."

Do Quantum Polytheists worship Schroedinger's Cat?

"He died so that ye may know atomic life." :boxedin:
 
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The cat didn't die for sure. It may have died and it may not have. After 3 days in the box it may have come back to life and it might not have. ;)

So the uncertain resurrection of the cat is worshipped
 
Kahalachan said:
The cat didn't die for sure. It may have died and it may not have. After 3 days in the box it may have come back to life and it might not have. ;)

So the uncertain resurrection of the cat is worshipped
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The uncertain resurrection of the cat is possibly worshipped :p
 
Kahalachan said:
The cat didn't die for sure. It may have died and it may not have. After 3 days in the box it may have come back to life and it might not have. ;)

So the uncertain resurrection of the cat is worshipped
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Drat.

"He died so that ye may know atomic life."

Forgot the italics. (Alberteinsteinianism, I think the heresy's called -- denial of the holy cat's "uncertain resurrection" -- aka: cats don't play dice!)

But they do play with string! Coincidence? :eye-poppi
 
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Hah hah nice. We're starting to develop our own theology.

Must've been fun to be one of the people who wrote the Bible.
 
In defense of our... "goobledygook":
Guk a 'mzimba, sala 'nhliziyo ;)
 
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