Tuesday, 3 July 2012

The Higgs Bosowhat?*


Whatever it is, it's of no use in the quest for the explanation of intellect (except that it shows it), form, free-will, morality, immortality, logic, mathematics, love, rock'n'roll or why kids want Harry to beat Lord Voldermort; all in all, it's pretty useless for philosophy)



No discovery in the realm of physics will ever have any implication on metaphysics.


No discovery in the realm of biology will ever change a jot in our philosophical understanding of man.

The only things that are worth knowing in this respect are that there is matter, that matter has been arranged and that mind interacts with it, which is what every kid knows and what grown-ups have known since time immemorial.

(And this is what I should have told Eve when she, a temptress!, tried to drag me back into matter.)








PS But all those small bits are amazing and do confirm that God's intellect is great.
*to say "matter doesn't matter (much)" would be bad taste.







Picture couresy (so to speak) of: theastronomist.fieldofscience.com; apparently it's about Dark Matter