The Physics of Divine Communications
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Does God Speak?
The Bible makes many claims that appear to conflict irreconcilably with science. For example, this one: God can speak to us, and we to him.
Is there any reasonable way we can square that fantastical assertion with science? Yes - and quite easily, actually.
Conventional Communications
When I was a boy madly in love with science, I learned there are just two forms of communication: acoustic (sound) and electromagnetic (light).
Sound consists of forward-and-backward vibrations - what we scientists call “longitudinal waves”- that travel at speeds that depend on the medium through which they’re moving. Sound moves about four times faster in water than in air, for example.
Light is a bit more complicated. Simply described, however, it consists of up-and-down vibrations - what we call “transverse waves” - that travel at speeds that, once again, depend on the medium though which they’re moving. Light moves fastest through a vacuum.
Through most media, light travels much faster than sound - although there are exotic materials called “Bose-Einstein condensates” where that’s not true. In any case, scientists once believed that nothing in the material universe - not even information - can travel faster than light does through a vacuum.
Quantum Entanglement
Starting in the 1970s, however, that shibboleth was thoroughly upended by the shocking results of certain quantum experiments. The development was so revolutionary it earned three scientists - John Clauser, Alain Aspect, and Anton Zeilinger - the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.