सर रॉजर पेनरोज यांना नोबेल पुरस्कार मिळाला हे ऐकल्यावर खूप आनंद झाला कारण जानेवारी २००६ मध्ये माझी आई वारल्यावर त्यांचे वाचलेले शब्द मनावर सर्वात जास्त फुंकर मारून गेले... (डिसेंबर २ २००७ची माझी पोस्ट)
“…I think there is a positive side to this picture of space and time
being laid out there as 4 dimensions, because it tells you that all
times are there once and it can affect the way one thinks about people
who have died.
I mean, I remember thinking in this kind of way when
my mother died. In some sense she was still there because her existence
is still out there in space/time although in our time she is not alive.
A colleague of mine had a son who died in tragic circumstances and I
presented this idea to him and it helped his understanding also.
This
was before I heard that Einstein had a colleague died and he wrote to
the man's wife that Bessa was still out there, and that somehow this was
reassuring. I certainly think this way often, that space/time is laid
out and that things in the past and things in the future are out there
still…"
"So this means that in a sense, the present past and future are out
there, and that also gives us a very deterministic view of the world. We have no control of what happens in the future because its all laid out.
I think the trouble that people have with this idea is that you think
the future is under your control, to some degree, and so this means that
if the future's laid out then in a sense its not under your control.
The
question of the passage of time is something the scientists have rather
set aside, and taking the view that its not really physics, it's a
subjective issue; and subjective questions are not part of science. Now
when you start talking about phenomena like one's own perception of the
passage of time, then that is a subjective thing. And that's almost a
taboo subject for science because it's subjective. The
physical world at least according to Relativity, is out there, and there
is no flow of time, it's just there; whereas our feeling (we have this
feeling of the passage of time) are intimately connected to our
perceptions."
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