a subjective world… Who cares?

Those of you who think the idea behind the movies such as The Matrix and eXisteZ are so original should read the Descartes‘ Evil Deamon. The question reduces to this: Is there a possibility that everything we see is just a set of subjective concepts which do not necessarily have any objective counterparts? i.e. We and the world around us are something like a virtual reality in a super powerful computer or We are just the thoughts of a crazy daemon?

One odd answer to that is this: Does it really make any difference? Cuz even in that case we can find the laws of physics of the daemon’s mind and live our lives as we do in an objective universe! In this case, this idea seems to be just a change in name, say from objective to subjective!

I don’t necessarily agree or disagree with the statement above. I’m just curious to know about your ideas…

My 2nd letter to God!

Dear God,

I hope you are not well! I was taught not to wish bad things for people; but in this particular occasion, I hope you are suffering a terminal illness! I was planning to discuss some issues about general theory of relativity in this post. However, since statistics show that people enjoyed my last letter to you more than the special relativity, I shall continue my prayers and leave Einstein alone until some other times!

I promised to show why I believe people have created you. Therefore, here I’ll waste my time, explaining them for you…

If you were the god that your slaves (poor people who happily call themselves slaves) think, your existence might not be led to any paradox. Now listen to these:

1. Paradox of the state of being infinite and almighty:

Religious people claim that you’ve told them you are infinitely good and you are not improving! Well, it sounds that you’ve not understood that meaning of infinity! When we say a quantity tends to infinity, we literally mean that it does not have any limits. If something does not have any limits, it does not have any end points. If it doesn’t have any end points, it should always improve! So you cannot be almighty! Easy discussion, wasn’t it?

2. Paradox of being omniscience and allowing free will:

Some of your believers say that you know everything from the past, now and the future and you’ve also gave them free will to do what we want during our lifetime! Well, if you (or anybody else) know the future deterministically, then it was determined before. So they can’t have free will! Again you’ve lied to them!

3. Paradox of justice vs. creation:

You’ve told them that you have justice! Justice is defined as judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments. Nobody has told me about my rights in against you and I don’t remember being asked about what I promise to accomplish as my mission in my life! So if you punish me for what I did in my life you don’t have justice.

On the other hand, even if you don’t punish me or give me reward for my actions in your world, again you don’t have justice. Worst than that, if you’ve created us and you do not allow us to get out of your authority, you can never have justice! So your existence contradicts with your justice.

4. The problem of theodicy:

Some of your sheep say that you have created everything from nothing. OK, so you have created wicked things and you have to punish yourself, not your sheep! This is another version of justice vs. creation.

These are a few reasons I believe the properties that make you God leads to contradiction. I’ve just mentioned a few, because I know sometimes you are very lazy to read a lot and really don’t bother thinking! Nonetheless, there are tons and tons of them! Could you please tell me what remains from you without any properties??!

Your enemy,

Sina

Physics is the mother of all sciences!

Before the next serious post , I wish to update you about the current state of  My f***ing VAIO. The cursor went upside down again! Besides, this time sometimes it randomly behaved madly and started bouncing all over the screen and clicked randomly! Moreover, the left mouse button stopped working! In the new situation of living in the Pounds Country (!), I decided to become a laptop doctor and repair it by my own! So I opened it as you see below:

cleaned the trackpad’s board and changed the faulty button! And all done!

Conclusion: If your VAIO went mad, simply open and clean the bloody trackpad! Everything’s there! Your guarantee service centre might tell you that the control chip was faulty, but that’s a lie to take some money from you!

P.S. I’ve chosen that title, because I am a physicist!

And here are some not much related random pictures of my favourite Jazz club in Manchester. It really worth spending a night there!

As you can see the saxophonist puts much effort to do it well!

An open letter to God

Dear God,

Thanks for letting me out of your authority finally after 22 years. Now I’m free and I can write against you! However, I know your faithful troops are always ready for Jihad. And I know that my home country is still under your dominant. But I want to write how I feel about you…

Some people say I don’t believe in you! That’s obviously wrong! If I didn’t believe in you how could I write to you? The only question to ask is whether you were the creator or us?!

Yes you got it. Initially we made you up to fill the gap of our knowledge about our origins. At that time you were such an innocent kid, like a lightening; you remember?! But then we gradually evolved you and made you more complex to fit the improving human society. You helped people control each other… You’ve become opiates for the masses, such that they couldn’t imagine their existence without you…  People started killing each other because of your delusion! More you’ve become complex more your believers become dangerous! Now there are a group of them who has a book, which they think, is sent from you and every single verse is literally true and unchanged! This is the dodgiest thing a society can believe in! Because as soon as they believe they are totally right and the others are totally wrong they’ll become to enemies and they’d fight! No, you are not doing well mate! You are definitely not! So I want to fire you from our world!

Having said this introduction, I shall explain why I think you are such a delusion. Then I’ll survey different religions and I’ll explain why I am not a believer in any of them. Nevertheless, to make the entries readable,as you are not that almighty to be able to read it all at once, I’ll publish each part separately. In this post, I’ll mention some of the contradictions of the existence of God of religions. I’ll explain them in the next post. Then I shall describe the reasons I don’t believe in any other Gods. Finally I’ll end with an argument about the reason that none of the religions could be brought by a supernatural creature!

To explain why the God of religion do not exists, I have to bring some contradictions in the properties of such a God. Here is the first one:

1. Paradox of the state of being infinite and almighty
2. Paradox of being omniscience and allowing free will
3. Paradox of justice vs. creation
4. The problem of theodicy
5. Relatively minor questions such as “Does it give any useful explanation?” and “Does it make any good contribution?”

Later for the discussion about all other Gods, I’ll ask the theists for their evidences. Then I shall repeat part 5 above for this case.

Finally, I’ll choose two of the religions which have the largest number of adherents, namely Christianity and Islam. And I will explain why their arguments are not valid. Why the scientific facts in Qur’an are either coincidence or misconception. And interpretations of Bible are just complications in human’s mind…