I agree. Putting too much faith in the rational of mathematics, for example, will hamper freedom of expression, every time. Of course I can only say this from a non-academic viewpoint, viz. i'm no scholar. Though I can imagine a collapsing universe where there is less and less time for calculation, as mathematics inevitably breaks down, ie the numbers becoming too large and bulky for an ever decreasing concentric curve of space\time. The singularity\bottleneck of the collapse is just too damn small for any number of any description to have any use whatsoever.Vraith wrote:peter wrote: absolutely chimes with my (sometimes overwhelming) need to see the world in terms of connections and correspondences that sit above the brute scientific.
Really? What exactly is so brutal about science? It might be "cold" in some sense---but brute is hot, and seems more applicable to things less rational.
Logic tells us that a leap of faith is much better experienced than understood.
After all, isn't that what life is - one leap, after another!
And so an idea occurs that a collapsing universe is forever imminent. Like life and death. It may happen yesterday or tomorrow - God Forbid - never today!
But what if it did happen, today?
The total collapse in all probability would be too fast for matter itself. When Time draws away from the Space holding it all together, the life is sucked out of every living atom of our entire universe, too fast to observe, too fast to understand, too fast to calculate. Then, and only then, the beating Heart of God breathes life into a new universe, once again.