marvels of creation revealed through the eyes of a physicist

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Newton's law of universal gravitation

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Creation obeys universal laws that can be discovered by disciplined reason!

Sir Isaac Newton’s definition of physics

“I have not as yet been able to discover the reason for these properties of gravity from phenomena, and I do not feign hypotheses [Hypotheses non fingo]. For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena must be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, or based on occult qualities, or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction.”

Why? How?Q → → A

Albert Einstein’s laws of gravitation

“canvas”deformation

of space-time fabric

“paint”energy & mass

of matter

Gravity is the force of the Cosmos…

Detection of gravity waves in 2015

Laser Interferometry Gravitational Observatory

Novel prizes in physics 1978 & 2006

Light of Creation (aka cosmic microwave background radiation)

Theory predictionproperties of atoms +

observations of receding galaxies +Einstein’s law for space-time +

Planck’s law for light quanta

Datapoints= measurements

of the “oldest light”

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

/Gen. 1:3/

Quantum physics

neither particles nor waves obey beautiful but weird laws never fully predictable

TU Delft

IBM Zurich

Hitachi, Japan

atoms

electrons

photons

quanta of matter

quanta of electricity

quanta of light

Quanta = elementary bits of Creation

Laws of quantum physics…… prone to (a lot of) misunderstanding…say nothing about spiritual or mind-over-matter issues…do provide physics’ “official loophole” for miracles

Images: PTB, GermanyUniversity of Latvia, Riga