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Holger Bech Nielsen

God's Universe and My Universe
Paradoxes in Physics
In modern physics, there are a number of paradoxes. At first, many realities seem so bizarre and illogical that our intuition rejects them as pure fabrication. However, many of these peculiarities are proven so concretely through experiments and observations that they must be accepted as truth. Albert Einstein's relativity theory hypothesizes that twins living on different floors in a tall building age differently. According to Niels Bohr's quantum mechanics, one electron can be in different places at the same time. The "baby universe" theory theorizes that it is possible to go both back and forth in time and create great short cuts in the universe. Have we come so far today that it is possible to combine physics and the concept of God into one coherent theory? Perhaps such a theory would demonstrate that the purpose of man is to create a vacuum bomb, which can save the future of the universe.

(From the book: "Science or God?" ("Videnskaben eller Gud?") edited by Bent Raymond Joergensen and Uffe Graae Joergensen)

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