An Idea in the Mind of God

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"The goal of physics, we believe, is to find an equation perhaps no more than one inch long which will allow us to unify all the forces of nature and allow us to read the mind of God. And what is the key to that one-inch equation? Super symmetry, a symmetry that comes out of physics, not mathematics, and has shocked the world of mathematics. But you see, all this is pure mathematics and so the final resolution could be that God is a mathematician." -- Michio Kaku

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  1. Samson Corwell10:19 AM

    Do you think the physicists who invoke God might be getting spiritual about what it is they are discussing? Like Michio Kaku here, for instance?

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  2. Silas Barta2:06 PM

    If this is how they presented it in Sunday School, I'd have been much more inclined to listen...

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