Quantum laughter in the Apocalypse

As pesky as quantum behaviors might be, they are helping us come closer to understanding quantum gravity.

Post-Covid California has to go online for us to have faces.  Max Picard writes in the 1930's: and never shall I cease bringing this up as a steady stern sudden slap in the face as delivered to Macron. A rebuke. A rousing up and up with fury. Authority created by corrupt law; then tumbling quickly afterwards educated children like scholars, clerics, theologians, pious laity swayed by those swayed by thirty pieces of silver, Man’s face is the image of God. And the image of God is like a call to the spectator: the whole being of the spectator is called together and held together. It is as if the image of God were being shown that man is still the whole creature that he was when God placed him upon the earth." For Max Picard, it was a technocratic civilization that arose to avert our gaze away from the human face by manufacturing only "technical surprises as if to convey: There are no more spiritual surprises, only the machine can astonish"

This abolition of the essentially human and our abdication to it's abolition signals a profound and mysterious disconnect with the direction of civilization.  In Genesis 1:26, 27; 5:1; and 9:6 two terms occur, “image” and “likeness,” that seem to indicate clearly the biblical understanding of essential human nature: humans are created in the image and likeness of God.   According Rabbi Akiba, the "image” of God seems to mean the unique human capacity for a spiritual relationship with him; this interpretation thus avoids any suggestion of a physical similarity between God and humans.

https://themindunleashed.com/2022/12/scientists-claim-to-have-created-a-tiny-wormhole-in-the-quantum-realm.html

The relationship between quantum entanglement, spacetime, and quantum gravity is one of the most important questions in fundamental physics and an active area of theoretical research,” California Institute of Technology physicist Maria Spiropulu, the paper’s primary author, claimed in a press release. “We are excited to take this small step toward testing these ideas on quantum hardware and will keep going.“

It’s time to take a breather. It should be made clear that the researchers did not really transmit quantum information via a spacetime rip, which in principle would unite previously disconnected parts of the universe.

Think of it as folding a sheet of paper in half and sticking a pencil in between the folds. Since the paper represents spacetime, you may use it as a gateway to connect two seemingly inaccessible locations.

Or in 1931. First published in 1931, Christianity and the New Age offered a hard and inspired look at a world being torn apart by fascisms, communisms, materialisms, and the Great Depression. Since the Renaissance, Dawson feared, western culture and society had embraced an arrogant form of humanism, one that place too much emphasis on the goodness of the human person without recognizing his innate failings or his dependence upon God. With the loss of the Medieval beliefs in the Economy of Grace and the Great Chain of Being (each of which placed man higher than the animals but lower than the angels), culture had adopted two radically dangerous institutions: 1) the machine; and 2) bureaucracy. If, however, Dawson could convince the world to reshape and hone its understanding of humanism, it would have to become a Christian humanism, a humanism that recognized the dignity of the human person, made in the Image of God, born unique in time and space, and armed with the freely-given grace of the Holy Spirit. As Dawson wrote: “Every Christian mind is a seed of change so long as it is a living mind, not enervated by custom or ossified by prejudice. A Christian has only to be in order to change the world, for in that act of being there is contained all the mystery of supernatural life. It is the function of the Church to sow the divine seed, to produce not merely good men, but spiritual men—that is, to say, supermen.” (from the Foreword) https://www.amazon.com/Christianity-New-Age-Christopher-Dawson/dp/1621386783?asin=1621386783&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1https://www.amazon.com/Christianity-New-Age-Christopher-Dawson/dp/1621386783?asin=1621386783&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1