Reality and Waves: A Quantum Physics Cosmology, Philosophy of Religion, and Ethic

Mark Ellingsen

doi:10.5771/9781793645203

Summary

Reality and Waves brings Philosophy into dialogue with Quantum Physics, offering a full-blown system Ellingsen calls the Philosophy of Waves. Quantum Physicists contend that reality is wave-like, and so the book helps us to see what the universe looks like when all its components are construed as being waves. Ellingsen makes the case for how Religion and Ethics have scientific validity. He teaches a Quantum Ethic for readers, a vision of life as joyful play in the waves of reality, but doing so with a commitment to fighting any wave which aims to divide us or increase entropy (unfocused, destructive energy). He also introduces us to a God who dwells in the “stuff” of matter, a God who binds the particles and atoms into matter. The result is a Philosophy of Religion offering fresh solutions to perennial questions about the relationship between freedom and destiny, about God's transcendence and immanence in the cosmos, and about God's relationship to evil. The philosophical system in this book will also teach you what Science and Philosophy have to do with everyday life.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4519-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4520-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 130
Product Type: Monograph

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Waves to Jump No access
2. Notes No access
1. How We Got to Quanta No access
2. 1. The Principle of Uncertainty No access
3. 1. Epistemological Implications No access
  2. Summary of Quantum Insights About Atoms No access
  3. What’s More Basic: Fields or Waves? No access
  4. String Theory and the Higgs Boson: Holding the Particles and Waves Together No access
4. The Laws of Thermodynamics: Preserving the Insights of Relativity No access
5. 1. What’s a Quantum Wave Like? No access
6. Closing Thoughts on Practical Applications of Quantum Physics No access
7. Notes No access
1. 1. Cultural Waves No access
  2. Waves in Your Personal Life No access
2. Entanglement and Entangled Waves: Glimpses of Eternity No access
3. 1. Alternative Ontologies Not Sensitive to Change No access
  2. 1. What the Cosmos Is Like No access
    2. God and the Cosmos No access
    3. Science and Religion No access
4. The Waves Keep Interfering and Colliding: How to Live? No access
5. Notes No access
1. Truth No access
2. Beauty No access
3. Goodness No access
4. Human Being No access
5. 1. Life As Play No access
  2. Ethical Norms No access
6. Notes No access
1. Religion as Play No access
2. 1. The Divine Engagement with the Waves No access
  2. Hanging Around in the Higgs Field No access
  3. Is God Transcendent? Panentheism No access
3. 1. Matter and Nothingness No access
4. Notes No access
1. God’s Engagement with the Universe No access
2. 1. Cooperation Is the Name of the Game No access
  2. Selfish Genes No access
  3. God’s Interventions with Our Brains No access
  4. God’s Efforts in Bringing Being All Together No access
3. Notes No access
1. 1. Finding Truth: Epistemology No access
  2. The Nature of Being: Ontology No access
  3. Ethics and Religion: How to Live No access
2. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 113 - 122
Index of Names No access Pages 123 - 126
Index of Subjects No access Pages 127 - 128
About the Author No access Pages 129 - 130