Quantum Logic, Resurrection, and the Last Days

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I am doubtful at this point whether Quantum Theology will ever become included in seminary curricula.

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Resurrection of the Dead; Last Days:Quantum Logic, Cosmology - Catholic Stand

Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
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I am doubtful at this point whether Quantum Theology will ever become included in seminary curricula.
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This article and it’s conclusion is very materialistic in nature although interesting i suppose. It seems to operate on the idea that the sum total of reality is physical processes and thus the conclusion ensues. Essentially it suggests that the events of the universe including the events of our lives are happening over and over again. This is an idea i have entertained before. It seems to me a veiled argument for a cyclical universe but with quantum physics as it’s defining feature. Of course if it is true then we are always being physically resurrected. But i don’t think it is true because God has the final say on the matter and not physics.

What got me frustrated about this article is that it brought Aristotle in to the discussion and i don’t see the relevance.
 
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Protip: almost any time someone includes the word “quantum” when discussing anything outside of theoretical modern physics, he’s probably a charlatan.
 
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Protip: almost any time someone includes the word “quantum” when discussing anything outside of theoretical modern physics, he’s probably a charlatan.
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Yes, but you have to add that anyone who does not include the word “quantum” when discussing theoretical modern physics is probably a charlatan.

The problem is discerning what is, or is not, theoretical modern physics.
 
I don’t get how the author of the article concludes that the double slit experiment and the wave/particle duality property of photons contradicts the law of non-contradiction. Does anybody have any ideas that can be explained in words without recourse to logic equations? Is he suggesting that the wave/particle duality property of photons contradicts the law of non-contradiction? Why? A man can be tall, skinny, and white at the same time.
 
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I don’t know. I’m just wondering whatever happened to string theory and M-theory. And have subatomic particles now been replaced by strings and/or branes?
 
The article never really gets into noncontradiction. Instead he emphasizes the distributive property of logic, which is a principle like noncontradiction.

As I understand it, the dual slit shows that a particle/wave goes through both slits, not through a single slit. He uses this to describe our ego or body or some other observer knowing our current self and our resurrected self as 2 parts of a single experience.

I don’t really know why he brings in the Big Crunch, except that it is an analog of the Last Judgment in being at the end of time. Maybe it justifies a broader view, beyond just 2 moments, now & resurrected, to an eternal existence. That sounds like strings and branes but he wants something like the end of time.

Anyway, I do not think he really addresses noncontradiction, but is more concerned with nondiscrete moments like particles going through two slits at once.
 
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I don’t know. I’m just wondering whatever happened to string theory and M-theory. And have subatomic particles now been replaced by strings and/or branes?
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Does this mean you are not going to tell us in plain English what this has to do with the Resurrection???
 
So the same combinations of atoms, the same space volumes corresponding to human bodies, cars, buildings and so on, will come again. All events in spacetime will be reorganized or ‘resurrected’ but not in such a way that they will be in time…It is not that the dead will arise from their graves, as it were, but rather sets of events of any life can arise again, together with the consciousness of those who were alive.”
Andrej Grib
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The article linked to is a short summary of a longer article by Andrej Grib which concludes with the above. The resurrection described is a consequence of nature, caused by the non-linearity of time viewing the process of the Big Crunch.

The resurrection is of consciousness because that is needed for the object to be measured=exist. It is of body because of the nature of material existence approaching the Big Crunch. The point is that the mathematics for that process was worked out by Grib.
 
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