Celebrated Physicist Suggests Fifth Fundamental Force of the Universe is "Psychic"

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Submitted by Stouffer 9 months ago

I ran across an incredibly interesting interview with Dr. Michio Kaku, co-founder of string field theory and popular science author. The interview offered profound implications for religion and science -- please join me in the comments for the FULL POST!

Here is my would-be 'blog post' if there had been sufficient tolerance for this many characters in the main post...

MY THOUGHTS...

I ran across an incredibly interesting interview with Dr. Michio Kaku, co-founder of string field theory and popular science author. The interview is several years old, but there was something within it that struck me. The good doctor, who happens to be one of my favorite authors, asserted that the fabled fifth fundamental force of the universe (currently only four are recognized by the scientific community) might be “some kind of paranormal or psychic force” but proceeded to note that scientists have found “no reproducible evidence of a fifth force.”

That said, for a devoted, reputable person of science to frame the potential force in such a way is breathtaking – in an interesting way.

Think about it. With all the religious fundamentalists of the world battling the scientific community and commonsense in general, there has been little effort (that I have seen) to make a very important point – faith and science can coexist and still maintain their self-respect.

True, that cannot happen if various religious texts are taken literally, but the broader assertions of faith need not be in conflict with science.

For example, though many could debate the legitimacy of personifying a ‘creator’ (most people would surely screw-up creation) there would likely be less conflict if the broader context of ‘life after death’ – that there is more ‘out there’ than we can necessarily perceive ‘in here’ In fact, various findings of the scientific community – at least on the theoretical side of the community -- support the idea of ‘something more’.

Look no further than the implications of ‘quantum leaps’, ‘quantum cornering’, electromagnetic fields, cosmology or the ideas of the multiverse, black holes, or the Big Bang and you will see that there is plenty of reason to believe, without much branch-walking, that all we see before us is not all there is to see.

In fact, such an intellectual journey would likely show that most religious texts are actually lacking in imagination, dwarfed by the profundity of reality… realities?

- Stouffer
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Here is my would-be 'blog post' if there had been sufficient tolerance for this many characters in the main post...

MY THOUGHTS...

I ran across an incredibly interesting interview with Dr. Michio Kaku, co-founder of string field theory and popular science author. The interview is several years old, but there was something within it that struck me. The good doctor, who happens to be one of my favorite authors, asserted that the fabled fifth fundamental force of the universe (currently only four are recognized by the scientific community) might be “some kind of paranormal or psychic force” but proceeded to note that scientists have found “no reproducible evidence of a fifth force.”

That said, for a devoted, reputable person of science to frame the potential force in such a way is breathtaking – in an interesting way.

Think about it. With all the religious fundamentalists of the world battling the scientific community and commonsense in general, there has been little effort (that I have seen) to make a very important point – faith and science can coexist and still maintain their self-respect.

True, that cannot happen if various religious texts are taken literally, but the broader assertions of faith need not be in conflict with science.

For example, though many could debate the legitimacy of personifying a ‘creator’ (most people would surely screw-up creation) there would likely be less conflict if the broader context of ‘life after death’ – that there is more ‘out there’ than we can necessarily perceive ‘in here’ In fact, various findings of the scientific community – at least on the theoretical side of the community -- support the idea of ‘something more’.

Look no further than the implications of ‘quantum leaps’, ‘quantum cornering’, electromagnetic fields, cosmology or the ideas of the multiverse, black holes, or the Big Bang and you will see that there is plenty of reason to believe, without much branch-walking, that all we see before us is not all there is to see.

In fact, such an intellectual journey would likely show that most religious texts are actually lacking in imagination, dwarfed by the profundity of reality… realities?
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