Time and Eternity: Physics, Theology, and Reflections for any Catholic Audience

Fernanda Psihas, PhD
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

[yossariandunbar]

Excellent, thanks very much for this. Really very interesting.

[elliottkirwan]

Amazing, thank you! So beautiful to reflect on the Eucharist as one, continuous sacrifice. All of the masses throughout the world and throughout history are so many instants of spacetime, but are unified in Christ. Incredible!

[sunnyboy]

Turn playback speed down to .75, talking too fast. Interesting when slowed down. Thank you.

[albinmjalynski]

What is the name of the speaker? This is fantastic

[Seekthetruth]

It all depends on your definition of God.

[krzysztofciuba]

A typical nonsense both scientific and theological. 1) A typical nonsense explanation of clock/twin paradox (like in most textbooks, i.e., physicists don't understand their own equation and experiments A.Einstein already made a mistake (a strange "peculiar consequence") in his 1905 Revolutionary paper in interpreting the case of "moving" clock but not (rightly) of a moving (rigid) sphere; a plain (and philosophical @for anyone case who has Aristotle's brain or Holy Spirit): in the reference frame of such "clock" is it moving or "at rest"? The same with old Reverend Copernicus Case, AD 1543: for the observer on the Sun, the Earth revolves but for the observer on Earth, the Sun revolves (Einstein). The case of GPS and atomic clocks is easily explained by the difference of the gravitational field of the ground and the above and not even ...Lorentz transformation which is only a typical mathematical trick and not a dynamical one as it would be contra the 1st Relativity principle! Why are scientists so...stupid? The "muon" case is also plain for the philosopher: 1) a "muon" is a name to describe a statistical property of the field of "muons" and the behavior is easily explained by its wave (of the matter: DeBroglie, Schrodinger) behavior- the change of length and frequency of such wave for a moving observer as in the case of an electromagnetic wave: treating "muon" as a point-particle (refers to any microparticle) is nonsense as such particle does not exist at rest (i.e., its group velocity would be zero then it mean it would exist at all- see the definition of a particle, "electron, photon, ...muon". Go back to school to learn the basics of philosophy (of science) and the basic Bible hermeneutics (see CCC nr 110) by yourself if your dumb Pastor and teacher did not do it Psps. She (and the sect of physicists, the majority: I've got a response form only....two by email of about 50ty). Relativity Theory is that of field and not of ....a (mythical) particle or, a rigid body or worse, alive matter; more, apply the main calculus theorem to the case of space-time (x, y, z, ict) and learn that the distance (for ds= dx +icdt) is NOT path dependent!