The Greek gods, fickle beings whose erratic movement on earth seems quite puzzling, were useful to the Greeks as a way of explaining the strange world thaey lived in. They were faced with many hard to explain phenomenon like violent weather, draught, changing seasons, and mountains that spew fire. These illogical explanations for how the universe operates, now referred to casually as myths, have become outdated and have been replaced by modern explanations of the world called science. Today those who look to religioun and faith for answers are often held with contempt and thought of as ignorant. The world is becoming a faithless place where many would have you believe you that things merely happen because they happen with no divine design or purpose. The Greeks gods had much in commmon with modern explanations of the world conceived by science. They both offer little to hope for. Faith in explanations fashioned by man comes with no great reward except,being better off in the eyes of the learned. One of the new gods created by science to explain the universe, are subatomic particles that like the Greeks gods are very spontaneous. They appear to be here one moment and gone the next, with such a haphazard nature that their movement is near impossible to explain. These are the particles described by Plank and his contemporaries known as quantumn physicists. Disturbing as these particles were to scientists such as Einstein desiring to understand them, thier existance is even more troubling when to apply thier existance into our lives in a philosophical sense. For it seems that these unstable particles in their nonsensical microscopic movement govern the universe and the way in which it operates. And its done by pure chance. The problem with this system is it leaves no room for humans to make choices. Free will doesn't exist in a system of pure chance. Humans to say that all human choices are random and predicted by probability is to say that we have no choice. But that we instead operate in complex system of randomnity. In a world ruled by these random actions human choices can be explained easily as mere aspects of cause and effect, like other objects in the universe. One could then casts all responsibility for our actions on the system we aperate in. Einstein upset over the prospect of the world created by quantum physicists exclaimed, �God does not play dice�. To which he was absolutely correct. A caring God would not leave our lives in a hazardous system based on chance and probability. The destiny of mankind would not be left to an indifferent turn of the card. But scientists continue to make observations and gather evidence showing what seems to be the ultimate truth: that we live in a world governed by pure chance. Which in a philisophical sense could be taken further to say a world with no God or at least no God that cares about us. For what kind of God would gamble his precious creations destiny in such a fashion?
I would like to pause here to reflect. Are we not the masters of our own universe? Can we truly accept a universe governed by chance where our lives our under no control of our own? Can our destinies truly be determined by mother nature�s roll of the dice? Another idea of mans(conceived by science ,indirectly, via industrial and technological development) is that he is continuing his mastery of the world he lives in. The power to alter the world she lives in order to suit his desire has become immense. She can change whole landscapes for development, clear forests for lumber, and even alter the make-up of life in order to make an organism more useful to him. It seems mans eventual mastery of the universe is imminent with further advances in technology and greater understanding of the world she lives in. Could it be possible that humans while believing they are free to act for themselves are in fact slaves to the same universe we are seeking so earnestly to control? More importantly, can our God have truly left us in this state? Has He abandoned us, cursed us to live our lives as in an awful game of chance with no choice and therefore no moral consequence?
To answer the first series of questioning I will say the following: Firstly, not only are we the master of this planet but of the entire universe, because our choices directly influence the entire universe�s course. Second, We are still at the mercy of our mother Earth and need to take into consideration the consequences of our actions.
Human choice is a vital part of the universe and the way it functions. To understand this and still accept quantumn physics (which is a pretty good system for understnding the universe) you must understand the concept of a fifth dimension. Now the first three dimensions you�re probably quite familiar with as they are the most basic in terms of how we experience the universe (i.e. length, height, width), you should even have some experience with the fourth as it explains the way you experience the world in time, but the fifth dimension you have probably never been made aware of, but is just as important to understanding the way you experience the world. This dimension deals with the way you experience the world according to human choice. Now you may or may not be aware of the idea of a multiverse. It is the idea that our view of the universe is too limited and doesn�t take into account a myriad of universes that share the particles in our universe and countless other universes that don�t. This concept was introduced to explain an unusual phenomenon of light: when light in a highly concentrated form, such as in a laser, is shone through a series of parallel slits the patern that results is vry unexpected and it appears as though the light is being interfered with by some unknown factor. This factor was eventually determined to be photons (particles of light) from universes very like ours. These photons called by some �shadow photons� are in fact the same photons in the experiment shared by two different universes so they are at once part of our universe and behave as they do here and also part of another universe and behave as they would in that universe. So it appears that the light is taken off course, when in fact it merely becomes entangled with light in another universe, and since it can�t be in two place at the same time in our universe as it is in the multiverse it simply doesn�t shoe up at all. Bear in mind that light is not the only thing that exists between universes. Particles of matter are also at once in this universe and in other universes within the multiverse. This explains why scientists are unable to track the movements of very small particles, because a single electron is at once here and there and everywhere somewhere in the multiverse and can be in any one of these places at any given time according to how we observe it or according to the humans choice in observing. Humans also exist in other universes but we only are only able to experience one. In other words although we exist everywhere and those little particles exist everywhere we only experience the ones in our universe. So, while my finger is typing on this keyboard in this universe and the sub-atomic particles in my finger are at the keyboard in this universe those same particles are across the room fixing me a sandwich in another universe. Those same particles (which can only exist in one of the two different places in the two seperate universes) exist in both places at the same time in the multiverse. So while those particles are here and there and can be anywhere according to my decisions, I won�t observe them there till I�ve made my decision. This is why scientists can�t predict the paths of these particles. They just seem to appear one place in our universe and then appear in another, because in reality they are in both places in the multiverse, and can readily assume their position in our universe with accordance to our decisions. This is important to bear in mind when trying to understand the fifth dimension.
The fifth dimension deals with (as stated earlier) the way you experience the world according to your choices and the choices of those around you. You exist in different positions throughout the multiverse, just as you exist throughout time in varying positions. If you could see people, as they would exist in the universe without time, you would see huge pinkish centipedes with babies at one end and old people at the other end. But as it is we experience space and time differently. In time we only see an objects movement one event at a time. We don�t see an objects path. If you were able to see the multiverse as it exists you would see every possible position an object could be in. But just as we�re not aware of ourselves elsewhere in time in this universe we also aren�t aware of our countless other selves making different decisions in the multiverse. Now if our mind were able to perceive the multiverse we would see our human centipede again, only now instead of following one set path it would branch off in a million directions for every time we�ve had to make a choice. But as it is we are only aware of the world dominated by our choices at this point in time. The universe we perceive is dominated solely by our actions; hence we are the masters of our universe because the universe we live in is a product of the human race�s election. Humans decide which path this world will take and which universe in the multiverse we will belong to. This puts a great amount of responsibility on us as a race to make this universe a good one, which in the end puts ourselves once again at the mercy of nature and God as our choices must reflect a desire to live in the best possible universe in the expansive and possibly desolate multiverse.
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