WEEK #2

Post #1 Little Things That Jiggle
After watching this video, i thought it was more of a science or physics film. But really i think this film trys to explain that science is the main explanition to everything on this earth. Little things, like atoms on this earth, combined with other atoms, makes things. They show how a nucleur bomb explodes. How atoms combined with others makes the explosioion. Everything in life can be explained by science.
The UFO sighting that was at the beginning of the film can also be explained by science. At the end of the film, They provide a quote from Albert Eienstein, "it should be possible to explain the law of physics to a barmaid." This means everything on this earth from what grows out the ground, what lives on the earth, etc, can be explained by sceience.

Post#2 Gods Too Decompose
I didn't find this video very entertaining. Its a very controversial topic and is a very delecate one to the society. I think this film was trying to show how society doesn't believe in god anymore? The film says it's been too long since there was any proof. The religious people in this film says that we are the ones to blame for the murder of god.It also says society trys to make "sacreed" deeds to try and raise god back to life, Which i totally do not believe at all. I think this film is trying to convice people to stop believe that there is a god.
I personally don't beleive alot of the stuff that was talked about in this film. This movie is a one-sided film. Its a persusive film which can be very controversial among others. I thought that this video was very werid and strange. Maybe it was because the whole mood it puts out or the vibe of the music.

Post #3 Lisa Randall and Edward O. Wilson
This interview was very interstresting. It didn't bore me like some of the other interviews that i have watched. Her question that she asks in the film is, "is it really true what we see is all that's there?" Lisa's theory of the hidden dimensions was the best scientific idea in the whole centrury.She connects what she beleives with what Einstien anddiscovered back in the days. She then explains and tells how Eistein was the first person to discover physics. She also says that it helped people to understand the fundemental forces of matter and how and why they both relate to each other. Her beliefs and theory has scientificexperiments that lead up to her assumption, that there may be other dimensions. Her theory has little evidence that can lead up to her thoery.
Edward O. Wilson talked about religious respect. Everyone is free to practice any kind of religion that they want. Practicing a religion should be as important as respecting one. This interview was the most interesting one ive seen from the others that ive had watched.

Post #4 Stephen Wolfram
In Stephen Wolfram's lecture he talks about complexity and Randomness. In our world, what you think is complex has a specific design. He shows the programs that stimulates the shape of a leaf. It is very interesting to see his explanation on complexity by a program. If we understands the rules then everything would be more simpler. For example, in school if you dont follow rules in class it leads to detetion. Or, at work if you dont't follow instructions and you break the rules, you get fired. Or when you speed down a road, you might get into a car accident. Wolfram came up with 30 that can be applied or relate to randomness and predict it. When rain drops or snow flakes hit the floor, the size and the shape of it can't be predicted. Its the randomness or each one that makes each one individual. He says when a rule is concrete the rule can be used universal. This lecture on randomness and complexity was very interesting and i can compare it to every day life.

Post #5 The origins of the universe: inflation
Cosmic inflation is a thoery in which rapid exponeitial expansions of the
universe. "Inflation", is used to refer to the hypothesis that inflation has
happened. This is the thoery in which gives information for the occurance of the
"Big Bang". Scientists explain that this theory answers mutiple questions being
asked about this world; why does the universe appear flat?,heterogeneous
universe?, on the basis of the physics of the Big Bang, a highly curved? It also
explains the large-scale structure of the cosmos. Could the Big Bang be explode
with massive amount of TNT?
The Big Bang was far more homogeneous, than can be explained by an ordinary
explosion.The early Universe was so hot that electrons would have been taken
away from atoms, when this occurs it would be left with a plasma that filled
space. The photons that now make up the cosmic background radiation were
constantly absorbed and re-emitted.
There are many and many theories in which how the earth was created. The
inflation backs up the theory of the Big Bang, but many of the information
provided are still unknown.

Mini Book Selection "The Unknowable" by Nicholas of Cusa
When i finished reading this book by Nicholas of Cusa, I didn't quite understand the full concept. So i went back and watched the film of his and then began to understand both the film and the book. I didn't get what the film was talking about up untill i read this book. I thought it was just he invented numbers or something, but after reading this book i now understand there is more to it. Anything that is knowable can be compared to something esle. Meaning, anything that you know from when you were born, how to walk, how to talk, etc., can be compared to something esle. Even the knowledge of math, or school work, or even how to drive a car, can be compared to something esle. Numbers is a nesssary element to comparative relations, so it emcompasses anything. Infinite, maximum, or minimum is different from other things. These you can't compare to other things, so this puts them as "Unknowable". The more that someone knows that they are unknowing, the more someone can learn. Sometimes this may lead to ignorance.

Magazine Selection "God 101"
Dont judge a book by its cover! This magazine article was very interesting to read. The beginning was a bit one sided on how god is a fictional character, But the comparsion between Charlie Manson and God was very on point. I think the point about the sheeps blood and the snicker bar was hilarious but rather not so much. Although i don't go to church i do believe in God. I think that God is real but i don't believe you need to go to church 24/7 to believe in God. Sometimes people that are overly going to church and too religious and thinking that if they don't praise God every minute of their lives dont get to actually live their life that God had gave them. The middle point of this article was very very interesting. Peter Mcwilliams, i found to be an very interesting man. He published a book titled: "Life 102" about John Rodger Hinkins. He Later sold it to him for 2 million in cash?! Iam guessing someone doesn't wants his beans to be spilled. As i kept reading, Medical Marijuana popped up. He uses it to relieve his nausea feeling after taking his AIDs medication. Whats the problem with that? Marijuana can relief a substatial problems a person might have. He ended up dieing from vomiting because a judge wouldn't allow him to use medical marijuana? Marijuana today is almost about to be legalized in general. The book that he was going to write before he died would i think be a interesting book to read even though its from an atheist stand point. One of his quotes that i find very fascinating was “All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all ofthe things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's reality. That's happened. No changing the past.” this quote i very much believe in.