Generation Z and Apple Pie

Just wait!

"For the random motion of atoms to make you an apple pie. That will happen much more frequently than the random motions of atoms making you an apple orchard, than the random motions of atoms making you an apple orchard, and some sugar, and an oven, and then mmaking you an apple pie. That will happen much more frequently than the random motions of atoms ,making you an apple orchard. So this scenario makes predicitions, and the predictions are that the fluctuations that make us are minimal. Even if you imagine that this room we  are in now exists and is real and here we are and we have not only our memories, but our impression that outside there is something called Caltech and the United States and the Milky Way Galaxy."   TED Talk Professor Sean Carroll www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMaTyg8wR4Y

This is from a TED Talk by Professor Sean Carroll from Johns Hopkins. He is one of the more intelligent people to whom I pay attention. He is brilliant and a gifted speaker. Although I admire him, my worldview is quite different. I believe in a creator with a powerful mind. We both appreciate the beauty of our world, but he thinks it is all natural. He sees a world without God in the picture.

To arrive at what we see today, he uses concepts such as given enough time, differing views on eternity, the multiverse, and the anthropic principle.

One of the better tools of skeptics and atheists to get rid of the G word is the use of the word infinity or the term "given enough time." As silly as sitting around waiting for apple pie to appear, he never has to worry about anyone proving him wrong. If someone says I've sat at this table for forty years and no pie, he efficiently can respond you haven't given enough time. If the pie-eater dies and marks on his tombstone I waited for 80 years and never got my pie, the professor responds: he didn't give it enough time. 

But is it practical? Depends. While sitting at the breakfast table, are you willing to wait for the delicious apple pie? After all, I don't want to fill up on Captain Krunch and be unable to eat the whole pie. Let's be real, given enough time, isn't meaningful in real life. 

Infinity is a rather complex topic, particularly when used in complex mathematic equations. However, for the purposes such as how many days in infinity or how many Universes are there? Infinity is not a real number or something that can be measured; but, an idea that is endless. One way of looking at the word is either actual infinity, or potential infinity. 

There is no actual infinite number of days prior to now. Although a trillion number of past days seems a long time, but if infinite, there is a day before that one and a day before that one. The problem with this is if one started traveling an infinite number of days ago they would never reach today. As for an infinite number of days in the future, can be classified as a potential infinite; you can forever add successive number of days, but never reach infinite. 

Another way of using the infinite concept, to eradicate the G word, is when speaking about the multiverse. Although no real evidence for the multiverse . Our universe is incredibly fine-tuned for intelligent life; if slightly changed, we would not be alive. It is not plausible to use the terms 

Science and mathematics are co-dependent; the laws of our universe are tied to mathematics. In the 1960s, Peter Higgs proposed an explanation of how particles acquired mass via a Higgs field and a Higgs mechanism. He and others expressed their belief in mathematical equations, and the math seemed to support the Higgs Particles.  

Years later, scientists could conduct research using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This 27-kilometer circular tunnel was able to speed up subatomic particles until they hit each other in opposite directions, releasing other subatomic particles. Although the Higgs particle was not directly observed, the experiment inferred it with very high mathematical reliability. Today, one is warranted to believe in the Higgs particle, and Peter Higgs won his Nobel Prize in 2012.

One cannot deny the close and essential relationship between mathematics and the physical sciences; however, mathematics is not reality. Many cosmological theories today, for example, the multiverse, are based on mathematical equations such as string theory. This is wonderful, but to this point, there is no experimental evidence to support it as a description of our universe. 

So many explanations to push multiverses today, but you may find apple pie on your dresser before any evidence of the multiverse

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