Catholic Philosophy and Modern Physics

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I just watched this documentary and thought to bring this subject to discussion.

The Universe - Parallel Universes

Nowadays Physicts are starting to move forward and many are embracing the many world interpretation of quantum mechanics, as the modern view of physics.
This interpretation poses in a nutshell that particles can be in superposition (in several places at the same time), due to the mass wave duality they have. We are made of particles therefore we are in several places at the same time as well.

There have been other new theorys like string theory which claim that there are many parallel unvierses of the type 4. This seems to support at least intuitively the MWI of quantum mechanics, furthermore there are many logical arguments that modern physicist gvie in support of the existence of parallel universes, which seem to show that it is only a matter of time until we find out empirically about their existense in high energy particle colliders.

How can the catholic philosophy which has to do with a unique soul one Christ etc could deal philosophically with these new breakthroughs about reality?

Secondly there has bee new developments in pre big bang physics, string theory has claimed that the unvierse might coem from a subbubble in an ocean of bubbles and other unvierses.

From Universe to Multiverse.

Soon a satellite called LISA
is going to be lauch to meassure the gravitational waves before the big bang this would give physicist a pre big bang picture.
Though this might be a new copernican revolution in science and philosophy regarding creation and other philosophical and religious subjects.

If this is proven to be true catholic philosophy should need to be reshapen or expanded a lot in my opinion.

-The concept of a creation of everything might be difficult to reconcile.
-The many world interpretation of quantum mechanics says that there are many replicas of everyone in diferent unvierses having different lifes this affects morals , and religious traditions, and it goes further to say that every possible outcome must happen in one universe.

However I believe these scientifical breakthroughs would improve a lot the argument of intelligent design.
 
I once read a book where there were such parallel universes, and the idea was in each one you made different decisions, right or sinful, and then at the end you were judged based on the whole picture, whether despite your decisions who were inherently good or inherently bad. This was fiction though. If it is like that however, then I don’t think it would disprove religion, it would just show that God works in mysterious ways. (Like we didn’t already know that ;))

Personally I don’t like when scientists get this ego about them and start assuming things are right rather than proving them. Whatever happened to physicists when they look at the two opposing theories of light? How they are still forced to admit that they could never understand the mysteries of light fully. Show these tv fad scientists the work on light theory, maybe that will humble them down a bit.

Personally I think it’s extremely creative, but it doesn’t sound plausible.
 
I think the terms used are inadequate.

Example; multiple personality disorder when there can be only one person. It was changed to dissociative identitiy disorder.

There is one universe

u⋅ni⋅verse ***–noun ***1.the totality of known or supposed objects and phenomena throughout space; the cosmos; macrocosm.
 
jimmy85 said:
I just watched this documentary and thought to bring this subject to discussion.

The Universe - Parallel Universes

Nowadays Physicts are starting to move forward and many are embracing the many world interpretation of quantum mechanics, as the modern view of physics.
This interpretation poses in a nutshell that particles can be in superposition (in several places at the same time), due to the mass wave duality they have. We are made of particles therefore we are in several places at the same time as well.

There have been other new theorys like string theory which claim that there are many parallel unvierses of the type 4. This seems to support at least intuitively the MWI of quantum mechanics, furthermore there are many logical arguments that modern physicist gvie in support of the existence of parallel universes, which seem to show that it is only a matter of time until we find out empirically about their existense in high energy particle colliders.

How can the catholic philosophy which has to do with a unique soul one Christ etc could deal philosophically with these new breakthroughs about reality?

Secondly there has bee new developments in pre big bang physics, string theory has claimed that the unvierse might coem from a subbubble in an ocean of bubbles and other unvierses.

From Universe to Multiverse.

Soon a satellite called LISA
is going to be lauch to meassure the gravitational waves before the big bang this would give physicist a pre big bang picture.
Though this might be a new copernican revolution in science and philosophy regarding creation and other philosophical and religious subjects.

If this is proven to be true catholic philosophy should need to be reshapen or expanded a lot in my opinion.

-The concept of a creation of everything might be difficult to reconcile.
-The many world interpretation of quantum mechanics says that there are many replicas of everyone in diferent unvierses having different lifes this affects morals , and religious traditions, and it goes further to say that every possible outcome must happen in one universe.

However I believe these scientifical breakthroughs would improve a lot the argument of intelligent design.
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IMO if scientists prove that there is another plane in which I exist , they will have proven that what they found is not me.
 
Scientists are not postulating the existence of science-fiction type mirror universes, where you can find alternate earths with alternate Barack Obamas and Stephen Hawkings. Rather, they have hypothesized that there exist completely different bodies of spacetime, so to speak, each with somewhat randomized uniqueness. Whether or not life exists in such universes remains to be seen even given success of the hypothesis, which as you may know isn’t even close to having been accomplished. And if life does exist, then I very much doubt it resembles ours.

In any case, I doubt this is a problem for Catholicism, much less an insurmountable problem. Your Church dogma seems to have stood the test of time thus far, and I don’t see that changing soon.
 
It dosent has to do with scientists proving or disproving dogmas but about an updated and more in depht look at reality,rather than the traditional one that everyone has. The Church dogmas have stood the test of time, in my opinion in part because they were enriched by empirical knowledge of reality as well. evolutionism, astronomy etc. If you have religious dogmas they can be extended and they can avoid change.
 
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