The neutrinos have thrown a challenge at Einstein. Weather they hold ground or not is difficult to say at this time. But one thing is clear, howsoever well explained the concept of time and space may be, it does keep baffling us in newer and newer ways.
I have a young niece whom I used to give a book or two on her birthdays. Time passed. My niece is now 15 and when I met her last week she was holding a book in her hands. In fact it was a very small little book. Have you read it, she asked excitedly. No, I said somewhat sheepishly. Take it and read it. It is amazing. It was “The God’s Debris.”
I realised that in the last 3-4 years, I have become, from a giver of ideas to this young child to a taker of ideas from this exceptionally brilliant young lady - and very happily so.
Having just gone through this book, I can say that it is surely an amazing book. It looks at the idea of God at a rational and not emotional or religious level and challenges the existing ideas about the universe, its creation and God. It proposes the idea that the omnipotent God self destructed himself since he knew everything except about his own non-existence. Consequently what we see around is ‘God’s Debris’. In This novella is a conversation between Adams the information seeker and ‘Avataar’, a wise old man.
I will not tell more as I would strongly recommend you to read the book yourself. No, you can’t say OK I will go and buy the book next time I go to a book shop. It is on the internet in an attractive readable format and free. http://nowscape.com/godsdebris.pdf
Interestingly the serious and thought provoking book is written by Scott Adams, the author of the Dilbert comics. The idea and use of ‘Avataar’ in this book pre-dates the James Cameron’s movie ‘Avaatar’ by a good 5 years as this book was first published in 2004.
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