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God sleeps in the minerals

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Re: God sleeps in the minerals

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Just" Could you create the laws of physics? If all of humanity got together in a common effort, could we make one law of physics or change one law of physics? Something which has always existed, which created the entire universe, is ever present through space and time, and invisible. Something which can never be resisted because it is almighty. Not even for one second. Something which will create beautiful sculpture…

>If all of humanity got together in a common effort, could we make one law of physics or change one law of physics? It wouldn't be a law of physics if it was something humans could change.

Could anybody or anything change or add to the laws of physics? Or are they omnipotent? If they are omnipotent and beyond the bounds of space and time, isn't that something impressive? Isn't that a higher power?

Re: God sleeps in the minerals

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Kind of fun to think that the crystalline structure of minerals is an "echo" of their arrangement of atoms. A repeating pattern on a scale we can actually observe.

Zoom out, too:

[CGP Grey - Metric Paper] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUF5esTscZI> - among my favorite videos

Yet even Plancks remain analogue...

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