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| Higgs boson |
"Isn't this to say that the micro- and macro- material universes have their ground in non-materiality--see, we don't even have the words."
"Oh, dear. Now we've got a problem. No words to talk about what we don't even know is there, God or nothing."
"That's nonsense. There aren't just two options."
"Whadayamean? There are only those two."
"What about some other reality? Like in string theory. They have quantum explanations and then there are string interpretations, but no one has ever seen a string, not that I know anything about it. Except, a theory is a theory based on ideas. Could be the same for the ends of things as we know them."
"You mean a theory other than the so-called theory of God or the theory of nothing."
"Right. And basically we made all this up. God and nothing. Realities we never dreamed of come into our awareness through science every day. Why not something we've never even dreamed of?"
"I guess that's possible. When you look at it, the god most people talk about looks pretty much like a larger people-like person. Pretty much. And he or she has changed costumes over the years."
"If you want to go crazy with this, then a people-made god all powerful and all of that, well, s/he could be in, around, and through, be the very essence of anything and everything. Doesn't sound so much like a god as a condition of the reality we already know. Look at that beetle there. He's god, and the space between him and you is god, and you are god. I am sure this is heresy to someone."
"You can be sure."
"And that leaves us where? I don't think we know, in spite of testimonies to the contrary from reputable voices throughout the ages."
"Something bothers me. Nothing I get. Like no thing, which is hard to imagine, because you can't even label or describe that for there's nothing there, not even nothing. It's a paradox and I can't hold it in my head, no one can in fact. Then there's the assumption that there is a god or spirit on the other side. We can't by definition--because of omini-everything--imagine him, her, it, other."
"But we have tradition and theologians and people like that. People who contemplate and study . . . "
"Yes, and again, everything is a font from them. Don't tell me about books written in chosen languages by chosen peoples and all of that. What about the rest of us? God prefers one group over another? Doesn't sound like god. We are constrained with who we are, where we come from, our traditions, granted, and all manner of physical things and phenomena. You'd have to step outside of all of that to see what was really there, and no one has done that except one, reportedly, and he didn't stick around long enough to tell us much."
"So why do we study the stars and the Higgs boson and keep on going with all of that?"
"To get more questions to answer. If we had no questions, what'd we do with ourselves."
"Questions about?"
"Nothingness or realities beyond all sensory comprehension. Or, that which we can conceive of as immaterial realities embracing and permeating all of that which can be sensed directly."
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* I don't believe I wrote this, but it comes from my working-writings file and is in the style of dialogues I have written frequently. The piece also reflects some of my thinking and the ways I have expressed myself about such things. But all the same, I have some doubt about how well this is constructed and said. I wrote this?
If I am repeating something someone else has written in whole or in part, please excuse AND inform me.
