Re: DIE SCHERE #18: Notes

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Günter writes:

> For EJ says here that in the biblical miracles as well as in the
"Vorweisungen" of
> modern physics "hope" is extended to every human being. What hope? The
> miracle story of Lazarus, be it fact or fiction, is essentially a
"Vorweisung", a
> glimpse through a chink in the prison wall of time.
> The definition of a miracle - and the parables of modern physics are for EJ
> even more miraculous than those of the bible - is that it is an
encouragement to
> face boldly the threshold of death.
>

Modern physics is indeed talking in parables, trying to map what goes on in
the subatomar realm and trying to explain the nature of space and time. (Maybe
a good example and intro is Stephen Hawking, Black Holes, Baby Universes and
Other Essays - in German Einsteins Traum, a kind of short history of time for
beginners). If you take later Star Trek (excuse the introduction of inspired
trivia), it composes a whole background of advanced physics using such
parables lavishly, and people find it plausible and even entertaining.
And the mighty demonstrations are also here, number one the explosion of
atomic bombs of course (in the early fifties one had to be set off in the
atmosphere every week because it was so hot), and, more subtle, the electron-
microscope.

The awakening of Lazarus is the strongest miracle in the Testament next to the
resurrection of Christ himself, exactly because it gives hope and because it
is of great concern to everyone like EJ sais - I can understand the analogy to
the parables of modern physics or science, but I cannot yet see anything as
powerful among the modern ones. I even doubt if time-travel would do, apart
from not being demonstrated yet. And as far as progress of medicine is
concerned, it may be soothing to read about new methods sitting comfy in an
armchair, but as a patient in the hospital its more like in a Hieronymus Bosch
scene.

Titans just are not gods.


Greetings

Walter