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Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimmensions, and the Future of the Cosmos | Michio Kaku

? "Bookstack With Sleeping Cat"?‍⬛

#Deshelving these as part of a gradual attempt to fit all my books into designated space!

Numberland is my son's which he no longer wants.
Breathe I accidentally ordered 2 copies of, so keeping 1, donating the other.
The books on the English I never got round to reading, & doubt I ever will (well, I definitely won't now!)
Parallel Worlds & The Later Bourgeoise World are both good, but I won't re-read.

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Leftcoastzen 😻awww, I need to do a major sort , resulting in donations or trades ! 3mo

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dabbe

Cosmos | Carl Sagan

#haikuaday #haikuhive #ranttime
Took this picture on our walk yesterday. Nature can be so gorgeous and so violent--sometimes at the same time. Sort of like humans. I cannot see a god in this chaos as the administration further reeks havoc with P. 2025. Any god who approves of this current government is not a god I want any part of. Period.
Yet ... I do believe in rainbows. 🌈

I do not believe
in God because of rainbows.
Where's God in this mess?

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AnnCrystal 🐝🫂🌈💝... Believing in Rainbows is magical 🪄🌈🐝💝.

Many in Native America has this difficulty.

Personally, I cannot believe that my God of Love had anything to do with the hatred/evils that my ancestors faced nor in the hatred that we are all facing today. As a Catholic, I have someone called Lucifer to blame...

Culturally... Mother Earth seems enraged...& like she's trying to send us a message.

I best quit. you know how I can ramble... 6mo

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dabbe @AnnCrystal No need to ever quit with me. I respect your views completely. I just don't see how a god of love could be okay with any of this. That is why I doubt. 💙🌈💚 6mo

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AnnCrystal @dabbe always heed the tiny wonders and maybe unexpected marvels will be revealed 🫂👌🏼💝😘💝🌈💝. 6mo

lil1inblue I agree, my friend! 🫂 🌈🌈🌈 5mo

DebinHawaii I totally get the doubt & I try to keep looking for those rainbows. 🌈 💛🐝🖤 5mo

dabbe @AnnCrystal Maybe. 💙🌈💚 5mo

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bellabella Still trying to catch up from my long break! Sorry this is late.
What if the god you mention doesn't approve of the government and he just decided to let it go because of how awful it is?

I certainly don't want to be controlled without wanting to just because I did something wrong. Could you even imagine? We would be like robots.
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bellabella That's why I believe in God. And those rainbows... I believe in them too. “I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.“ Meaning to not flood the earth again.

This is my humble opinion. I am in no way forcing you to believe what I do. And that is exactly what God is doing, not forcing us to be perfect.
He only asks us to try. 2w

bellabella Psalm 5: 4-7
“For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness; with you, evil people are not welcome.
The arrogant cannot stand in your presence. You hate all who do wrong; you destroy those who tell lies. The bloodthirsty and deceitful you, LORD, detest.
But I, by your great love, can come into your house; in reverence I bow down toward your holy temple.“ 2w

dabbe @bellabella “For God so loved the world“ ... that he walks away because he doesn't approve of the government? So he lets ICE do its thing, and he lets innocents get deported and he lets the government keep the guns where people keep getting shot--even when they're practicing their faith like they were in Australia? A hands-off God? The Deists embraced that kind of god; I just can't. 2w

dabbe @bellabella So the god who “hate{s} all who do wrong“ cannot be the same god who loves “the world“. The world means EVERYBODY and EVERYTHING. That he created in his own image, right? That includes the evil people, too. 2w

dabbe @bellabella You are COMPLETELY entitled to your opinion, and I wouldn't say it's humble but earnest. You have every right to believe as you do, and I have listened. I was brought up Christian and understand its tenets. I became a doubter when I learned that nearly every group of people has their own god with their own savior/creation/flood/temptation stories. Who's to say that the Christians are right? Hence ... I doubt. ♥️💙💚 2w

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The Grand Design | Leonard Mlodinow, Stephen Hawking

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Scientific takedown of creationism. A good intro to quantum physics. It does get very slightly technical in some places. Quick read.
#StephenHawking #LeonardMlodinow #TheGrandDesign #QuantumPhysics

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The Grand Design | Leonard Mlodinow, Stephen Hawking

It‘s Stephen Hawking. What can I say?
#StephenHawking #LeonardMlodinow #TheGrandDesign #QuantumPhysics

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Robotswithpersonality

How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang | Harry Cliff

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Based on the number of times I found myself exclaiming aloud some variation on the theme of “nifty!“, this book is worth a read. The humour and wonder the author exhibits, the playful framing, greatly increased my enjoyment and comprehension, and the likelihood that I'll engage in a non-fiction topic I don't have an educational background in. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I'd say the book is about equal parts science history, covering the people, theories and experiments of times past, and science present, introducing current people in various specialities, the current theories, and the impressive new tools available. I'll admit to finding the history portions more satisfying, seeing the contrast between what worked and didn't work when experimental proof arrives to vindicate one theory/angle of focus over 13mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? another. The latter third of the book focusing heavily on possible theories and repeatedly bumping up against 'but here's why that doesn't totally fit, or here's why we may never find any evidence to prove it', was a bit unsatisfying, even if Cliff is right that there are still many exciting discoveries and avenues to pursue, that theories can be useful for disparate reasons. 13mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? The subtitle on the cover allows me to say this without spoiler concerns: this is a book by a particle physicist (I know what that means now!) who freely acknowledges that we don't have the full recipe for the universe and may never, and again it's his indomitable curiousity for what we can discover now and in the future that stops that conclusion from being a downer. 13mo

Robotswithpersonality 5/5 Sidebar: I really appreciated the equality in acknowledgement of scientific discovery, not just the contributions of women in the history of the field, but where people of different nations made the same discovery at basically the same time, all are recognized, and there's a reverence for all instances of collaboration, as well as commiseration for those who were not properly acknowledged in their time. 13mo

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Robotswithpersonality

How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang | Harry Cliff

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Robotswithpersonality

How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang | Harry Cliff

When the scope of the project hits home.
Jaw. On the floor.
Here I am reading about transparent blocks thinking of a glass block wall and then:
Ten years?!
$10 million dollars worth of platinum?! 😲

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Robotswithpersonality

How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang | Harry Cliff