Critique Of Stephen Hawking's Book The Grand Design

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We submit a review of Stephen Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow's latest book, The Grand Design. The authors cite both physics and metaphysics viewpoint. Yet, physics excellence does not guarantee metaphysics expertise. Only syllogistic reasoning from the only true source can decide the rightness or wrongness in monotheism disciplines.

In attempting to critique The Grand Design, this author must confess to more than just a casual interest in 'the nature of things.' In my own small intellect, in the history from now, resides a reasonable assumption of beginning to matter: whatever its dimensions and product of force. Outside of reasoned debate arises the scientists' claim of 'something from nothing.' They state: "... the laws of gravity and quantum theory allow universes to appear spontaneously from nothing... that our known universe is only one among uncounted billions of universes."

Here, Hawking and Mlodinow opine Universe beginnings through spontaneity by Physics or creation by Super-intelligence. They accept the givens in physics observation and theory from experience or experiment; they acknowledge the infiniteness of Special and General Relativity and quantum mechanics; yet, they neglect to consider the experience and experiment of established theism. Rightfully, they cite religion's lack of mathematical precision; wrongly, they succumb to impreciseness in their own speculative consensus of multiple universes and equation theory. Ben Winter would question even the ubiquitous application of E=mc2. It cannot effectively prescribe more energy than is contained in the Ultimate Particle mass.

Their debate on God existence is also subject to the following logic: where, Emanuel Kant, states: "No man has the intellect to deny another man's god". Such reasoning must be accepted as truth in the absence of insight to evaluate another's inherent gnosis. Ben Winter would add to the observation: "A god can be instantaneously created by anyone at any instant and without need for verification."

We comment on additional opinion offered in The Christian Chronicle; where, noted PhD Rubel Shelly, longtime minister, author, and president of Rochester College in Michigan, also critiqued The Grand Design and made the following observation: "If there had ever been a time when absolutely nothing existed, nothing could exist now. Since something clearly has existed forever, you make the more intuitive, reasonable, and consistent-with-experience choice... Creative God or quantum mechanics?"

Respectfully, we wonder if the good Doctor's definition of 'forever' came from the traditional misconception of Bible semantics. In either event, Dr. Shelly is also in error. For, the word defines as 'until the set time' in biblical frame of reference.

So much for challenging everyone's perspective of everything! The Grand Design is a good way to refresh the mind on physics and metaphysics; however, in summation, this book is more dedicated to speculation than substance and leaves a huge gap between cause for the Universe basis and cause for modern religions. These issues are resolved in additional study.

Ben Winter, particles physicist, Bible scholar, and author of "THE GREAT DECEPTION: Symbols And Numbers Clarified," reveals there 'is' something new under the sun -- that is, for modern Bible students, addressing a correctness of language and true intent of the major Bible topics: solves Bible mysteries, defines Gog and Magog, reveals Daniel He-goat's surprising identity, daring to number the all important Ten Ages. Sign up for FREE book critiques at http://www.winterbriar.com/ and view more articles in blog format at http://blog.thegreatdeception.net/.

Critique of Carl Sagan's Book: Billions And Billions

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In life and in his book, this eminent scientist hoped to heighten awareness to the exponential immensity constituting our interstellar existence, to quantification in microscopic beginnings, to infinite potential in meaning and purpose for our own existence, and to "Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium." Early on, Sagan advises, "If you know a thing only qualitatively, you know it no more than vaguely. If you know it quantitatively -- grasping some numerical measure that distinguishes it from an infinite number of other possibilities -- you are beginning to know it deeply."

An outspoken iconoclast, to both leftist and rightist extremes, Sagan advocated urgent attention to our headlong plunge toward an uninhabitable earth. And, of course, he was right; differing political systems attempt to advance agreement with his notion of patrimony and environment preservation. Even so, we call attention to Sagan's rise to the top of his profession; thus, he becomes the greater consumer rather than greater environmentalist. At the ladder top, he urges lower rung climbers to lesser energy expenditures as they attempt ladder ascendance; yet, despite these imposed limitations, even those at the bottom would, like Sagan, spend the necessary energy to enjoy a view from the top. At the top, Sagan recommends global effort to bring living standards to optimum levels. Yet, to elevate plebeian from the bottom rung to like-levels, society must, in itself, require a greater expenditure of natural resources; therewith, such ambition defeats the very conservatism advocated to inspire environmentalism ploys and, simultaneously, to alleviate the starving masses syndrome. Basically, inhering a socialist mindset, Sagan politicizes mankind's primitive inherence so faithfully replicated in genes, man's propensity to hunt and gather as impelled. To circumvent this inherency, Sagan would make all consumers subject to the state (though he did not directly state the means): thus would man be made to observe environmental dictates, to reside in industrial conformity, to live indistinctively in miscegenation, and to lesser rung submission.

Sagan's racial finiteness belongs in a fictional work, not scientific exposition. Like most white liberals, he capitulates to popular desideratum and proposes mankind to have evolved from black beginnings -- neglecting the paucity of evidence -- and ignoring natures neglect to deposit contradictory fossils in easy to find locations throughout the world. No! Mankind had to evolve from a wider potential in the chemistry environment necessary to produce early and diverse specimens. By Sagan's heuristic creation medium, all fish, all birds, all reptiles, all bacteria differentiated from individual protist and isolated into species. We should expect more from Carl Sagan. In paraphrased briefness, he said: 'Only in the visible (light spectrum, bw), with many transparent molecules can the anomaly of white skin be possible. Over much of the spectrum, all humans are black.' Nonsense! Would Sagan's 'light spectrum' explain the marked difference in physiognomy amongst ethnic diversity? And would not the following Sagan observation, concerning 'important discoveries,' treat the above mankind origins theory as mere speculation?

At the end, Sagan admitted: he would love to believe, at the advent of death, he would live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of him would continue. But as much as he wanted to believe and despite the ancient and worldwide traditions asserting an afterlife, he knew of nothing to suggest it as more than wishful thinking. He lived as he died, setting forth logic as a guiding principle, at peace with himself, and trusting in scientific intellection. Was he correct in all his deductions? Yet, his was a strong voice condemning our selfish quest for industrial superiority, to energy foolhardiness, and to our tendency toward supernatural dependency. In this, he was right on target!

Truly, Carl Sagan's practicality regarding afterlife is confirmed by strict review of the only monotheism legal-historicity, the Bible; herein, limits to the theist experiment are found to circumscribe Ten Ages as a whole to the Covenant enterprise. Further bold conclusions are available to those with abiding interest in the symbols and numbers coded into the Bible's hidden language.

Ben Winter, particles physicist, Bible scholar, and author of "THE GREAT DECEPTION: Symbols And Numbers Clarified," reveals there 'is' something new under the sun -- that is, for modern Bible students. He addresses correctness of language and true intent of the major Bible topics: solves Bible mysteries, defines Gog and Magog, reveals Daniel He-goat's surprising identity, and dares to number the all important Ten Ages. Sign up for FREE book critiques at http://www.winterbriar.com/ and view more articles in blog format at http://blog.thegreatdeception.net/.

Critique of Frank Close, Et Al: The Particle Explosion

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For those with a need to know, this book furnishes the latest in quantum mechanics, particles science, and ultimate theory as we know it; the author explores the known parameters and perimeters governing theory, in minute detail, and to date in 2005. In pictorial review, we glimpse the latest in collider technology and efforts to isolate the ultimate particle. Here, the writers introduce particles decay or annihilation into lesser quantities; where, particles disseminate their mass into energy parcels ultimately transmutable to differing or original state. Thus, science demonstrates the known state of mass in flux, easily transmutable into lesser or greater particles and force.

Frank Close, Michael Marten, and Christine Sutton combine to explain the latest in particle explosions, decay, or annihilation. Here, we begin a spectacularly illustrated tour of subatomic worlds, the science of particle physics, and participation in attempts to understand the very nature of matter and energy. In so doing, we come to understand, how, at one time or another, our body will reuse atoms or energy once included as a part of Moses the patriarch, or Isaac Newton the physicist; also, we will have breathed an oxygen molecule whose parts might already have been inhaled by every other person who ever lived!

The authors illustrate an extended particles panorama provided through the great accelerator and collider experiments; where, particles are hurled at ever increasing speeds to collide with other particles; particles are thus treated to determine the very essence of matter and causality for our existential serendipity. If you can imagine 1-TeV, that is, one trillion electron volts, you can partially grasp the speed now artificially imposed on particles too small for natural observation, racing toward collision with targeted components --and with collision, leaving telltale signatures of presence and decay from the building blocks of matter on prepared registry.

The authors provide hundreds of film-exposures illustrating particle annihilations, and entirely reproducible in other elements as proof of particles diversity. This journey into the heart of matter encounters a subatomic 'zoo' habituated with quarks, bosons, leptons, 'strange,' 'charm,' and other peculiarly named antiparticles and companion particles. Holding Doctorates in their chosen field, the authors describe major particles and groups of particles in great detail and furnish collider tracks to verify findings.

Particle physicists can now transform our understanding of atom workability; still, they do not approach the Grand Unified Theory, the theory reaching matter's ultimate particle isolation. But such is only in the wings of science and will burst forth in the near future. If readers desire pictorial demonstrations, knowledgeable text, and a scientifically advanced flow into matter investigation, this book is a must.

Two great mysteries complicate the mystery of life: the 'ultimate particle' able to instigate and sustain life and eventually to also erode humanist life force, plus the Theocratic Essence esteemed to prolong human life-force from its created existentialism into an invisible. Seemingly, the two are at odds with one another and have perplexed the greatest minds over centuries, seeking answers to theories most difficult to envision. Science is hard at work to discover the former, and theist/atheist debate is hard at work to resolve the latter. As to the first, an equation is possible to explain the first and which equation questions the present ultimate speed of light; additionally, the argumentation of atheist and theist are both wrong in basis, positioned from biased opinion or emotion, and neither extreme syllogistically proving their position. Yet, recent research exists to resolve both the Ultimate Particle and Ultimate Destiny.

Readers are invited to peruse our best research and test the answers now accepted for these age-old questions.

Ben Winter, particles physicist, Bible scholar, and author of "THE GREAT DECEPTION: Symbols And Numbers Clarified," reveals there 'is' something new under the sun -- that is, for modern Bible students. He addresses correctness of language and true intent of the major Bible topics: solves Bible mysteries, defines Gog and Magog, reveals Daniel He-goat's surprising identity, and dares to number the all important Ten Ages. Sign up for FREE book critiques at http://www.winterbriar.com/ and view more articles in blog format at http://blog.thegreatdeception.net/.

Critique of Kenneth Amdahl's There Are No Atoms

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Contemporaries praise Amdahl's effort to reduce electricity to its most simple dimensions and allegorical illustration. His peers offer the greatest recommendation: "We all feel somewhat dumb when it comes to electronics... a proper tonic for this ignorance... is a major breakthrough in teaching the elementary physics of electricity... should be required basic reading for high school science students...even a blockhead like me, who could never visualize the abstract, was able to penetrate the nebulous mists of amps, volts, current, induction, and conductors, and actually understand what the hell they're all about. But above and beyond the practical, Amdahl, with a magical energy all his own, has created a wonderful book about a beautiful and powerful mystery. Actually, this book is about electricity and everything else, too.

Amdahl introduces reality with an admmonishion to people who honestly believe they understand electricity -- but can no more explain the inner workings of electrical phenomenon than they can breathe life into a crescent wrench. This dire prediction opens a more modest pathway for students who might be intimidated but desirous of filling the gaps in particle science. Even now, after years of study and silent debate, we read of emerging theory for 'The Ultimate Particle' -- with offered dimensions -- basic to understanding this same force of electricity but heretofore unpublished.

The most basic understanding revolves around static electricity; where, like charges repel and unlike charges attract; which phenomenon results in the positive and negative assigns readily recognized in basic science. Realizing how man resorts to analogies or parables, he reverses technique by bringing the complex into simple uniformity. Thus, Amdahl converts the world of resistors, capacitors, diodes, current, amps, watts, and volts into easy conceptions of electrical magic transforming our utility and technological masterpieces.

One fault in Amdahl's science is his description of atom theory: he proposes electron theory to maintain everything in the universe is composed of tiny particles called molecules; and most are too small to be distinguished even when using the best microscopes in the world. This definition of universe particles is not entirely correct, according to the minuteness expected in basic particles; therein, we might expect the ultimate particle to be a tiny, small, nanometer fraction of molecule mass (molecule mass composing two or more atoms). Even so, this journey into ultimate physics is not important to the simplification of electrical terms and workability but is offered here solely as a basic energy constituent.

While electricity might be hard to understand, as to wellspring and discontinuance posits, there can exist no doubt as to workability. Home appliances, transportation, computers, and other electronic marvels attest to the electron's driving force. Truly, Amdahl simplifies a very complex subject -- worthy reading for the professional electrician or the homebody who only flips a switch to advantage this most basic boost to advanced living.

Amdahl's use of the biblical 'parable' to express electron mystery and complexity is well-used to magnify the hidden force in particle motivation, as was the use of kabala or cabbala in biblical communications. Cabbala and parables were extensively used to hide the real meanings of prophecy and principals in the legal-historicism giving rise to monotheism. Recent research converts the complexity into simple understanding. You are invited to further investigation and thus to compare these findings with traditional rote. And we must ask the question of Amdahl and other exponents of physics: What is the physical quality of the electron's ground state as opposed to its quantized maximum at the 204th orbital? Solution will determine size for the Ultimate Particle.

Amdahl's book is highly recommended reading for the budding physicist or career-minded electrical tradesperson.

Ben Winter, particles physicist, Bible scholar, and author of "THE GREAT DECEPTION: Symbols And Numbers Clarified," reveals there 'is' something new under the sun -- that is, for modern Bible students. He addresses correctness of language and true intent of the major Bible topics: solves Bible mysteries, defines Gog and Magog, reveals Daniel He-goat's surprising identity, and dares to number the all important Ten Ages. Sign up for FREE book critiques at http://www.winterbriar.com/ and view more articles in blog format at http://blog.thegreatdeception.net/.

Critique of Gordon Frazier's The New Physics: For The Twenty-First Century

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Utilizing the considerable contribution from twenty-three eminent Physicists, adept in their particular field, and together with one hundred eighteen bibliographic gems, Gordon Frasier brings the world up-to-date concerning advances and theory championed by experts working in the multiple physics departments.

With considerable research to his credit and employing contribution from twenty-three other physicists, eminent in particular fields, and together with one hundred eighteen bibliographic gems, the author brings the science world up-to-date concerning advances and theory from experts working in the several physics departments. These leading physicists explore the modern science frontier: evaluating the standard atom model, particles, forces, stars, and satellites. This knowledge assembly emanates from scientists in multiple disciplines and is rather technical for the layperson. At the same time, one cannot help but garner a modicum of insight by exploring these 526 pages of selective indoctrinations.

Fraser gently eases the reader into difficult science mysteries, easily quantized into logical measures and qualities at the first, from the microscopic to macroscopic. Here, we discover the transmutation of particles into recognizable mass and vice versa; where, neutrinos are theorized at a very minute portion of electron mass -- experimentally proven to transform into other neutrino bodies -- even into photon, lepton, and baryonic character.

In total, The New Physics encompasses a scope too broad for wide address in critique; also, much is left hanging in mysterious presentation. We offer an example, concerning supersymmetry: "Supersymmetry is the name physicists have given to a possible new symmetry of Nature, hitherto unobserved, that underlies one of the most audacious efforts to build a theory more comprehensive than the Standard Model." Surely, we can agree with supersymmetry eventuality; however, the author's theory advances into more fundamental quantities as the basis for supersymmetry. This above quote is only one example of the theoretic approach serving to explain physics and the Standard Model. A new paper on the ultimate energy basis is forthcoming; wherein, the ultimate, micron particle will demonstrate a sufficiency for perpetual energy employment.

Fermi reportedly said: "Physics is what physicists do late at night." And as physicists slowly resolve theory with experiment, we will increasingly find new prophetic intuitions penned in books such as The New Physics and resolved in future experiment. Only the seasoned physicist and intrepid logo-phile dare read this book in its entirety; but for the patient, the curious, it will open to avenues scarcely traveled before. The secret to atoms, to molecules, to life, to mechanics, even to life origins, rests in the physics surrounding fundamental particles origins, utility, and transmutation.

This book is recommended for those with an abiding interest in physics, metaphysics, and especially particle science.

While physics has its mysteries, so does metaphysics present almost the same puzzling backwash of unanswered questions flowing from the strokes of mystic writings, closed to common people, and reserved until the answers appear too late for benefit. Now, the bottom line is available for those with the need to know. The necessary research has been accomplished and awaits your critique.

Ben Winter, particles physicist, Bible scholar, and author of "THE GREAT DECEPTION: Symbols And Numbers Clarified," reveals there 'is' something new under the sun -- that is, for modern Bible students. He addresses correctness of language and true intent of the major Bible topics: solves Bible mysteries, defines Gog and Magog, reveals Daniel He-goat's surprising identity, and dares to number the all important Ten Ages. Sign up for FREE book critiques at http://www.winterbriar.com/ and view more articles in blog format at http://blog.thegreatdeception.net/.

Critique of Kenneth W Ford's The Quantum World

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How small is small? Five billion electrons per second are said to travel through a light bulb. Ten million atoms in a row stretch less than one-tenth of an inch. Thus, in the first Chapter, Beneath the Surface of Things, on the first page, Kenneth W. Ford introduces readers to Lilliputian measures. Here, we discover atom smallness, its power, and the governing force for life itself: contributor of industrial might and expounding on the uniqueness of speed, light, and time.

Ford introduces us to a minuscule mass of leptons and hadrons, in company with fermions and bosons; and in so doing, he reveals the soul of element characteristics, of sub-particles quick to change configuration, and of specific activity inhered in particular matter evolution. We discover the pairing of particles and sub-particles into mirror reflections of particle self, the particle and antiparticle: able to miraculously merge into other classifications and yet split again to go separate ways. We begin to unravel of particles in powerfully controlled conditions.

Certain fundamentals are necessary to grasp the significance of Cyclotrons, Linear Accelerators, and even the powerfully endowed Tevatron. These devices are able to propel particle missives onto collision courses, at almost visual light speed, and thus create evidence and decay of matter particles. But to understand cause leading to the experimental effect is to read the fundamental instigation of matter interchanges as laid out in orderly fashion in this book and other physics endeavors intended to simplify the atomic world. Here, Kenneth W. Ford writes an appealing account of quantum physics, to help the serious reader make sense of advanced science. Admittedly, with all its successes, quantum mechanics remains mysterious even to professional scientists.

At the core of this book are big ideas of quantum physics, including energy, granularity, wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle, nature of fermions and bosons, plus superposition and entanglement, where, an atom can be in two or more states of motion at once.

This book imparts both wonder and fundamental knowledge concerning the strange laws governing atom workability, nuclei force, and interchanges regulating our quantum world. If the reader enjoys physics, experiments, and theory, they will enjoy this comprehensive insight into super-speed and minuscule-sized worlds of motion, space, and matter. Readers with abiding interest in particle mass and behavior will enjoy this journey into the minute and busy world of quantum interactions.

Those interested in the almost incomprehensible world of quantum mechanics, thus the physics world, might also be interested in the less translucent world of metaphysics. While the world of physics deals with physical reality, the metaphysical deals with those things not answerable to science and including the supernatural. In this area, serious enquiry raises questions and changing interpretation of biblical code, of secret principals, and of the time line faulty in traditional conclusions. Such error is understandable, for Bible authors intentionally wrote in cabal or parable to hide theological intent. Recent research has penetrated the legal-historical cabbala and disclosed its true intent to those with interest. Readers are welcome to compare these findings with traditional misinformation.

Ben Winter, particles physicist, Bible scholar, and author of "THE GREAT DECEPTION: Symbols And Numbers Clarified," reveals there 'is' something new under the sun -- that is, for modern Bible students. He addresses correctness of language and true intent of the major Bible topics: solves Bible mysteries, defines Gog and Magog, reveals Daniel He-goat's surprising identity, and dares to number the all important Ten Ages. Sign up for FREE book critiques at http://www.winterbriar.com/ and view more articles in blog format at blog.thegreatdeception.net.

Critique of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History Of Time

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Probing Quantum Mechanics and Relativity to probability limits, the author envisions a theoretical progression from The Big Bang to Black Holes. He explores matter origins, energy excitation, physical dualism, metaphysics, and universe destiny. Finally, he predicts: with physics and metaphysics conjunction, 'we would know our own mind!'

Wheelchair confined at an early age, the eminent physicist has since battled the ravages of Lou Gerig's disease, all the while wrestling with controversial particle behavior and managing the prestigious office once held by Isaac Newton at Cambridge University. One of the top twenty physicists in our time, Hawking communicates via a voice synthesizer. Immobile, except for reduced digital dexterity, he remains undiminished, a legend in his own time.

Concerning Determinism and earth genesis, Hawking remarks "According to early Jewish-Christian-Muslim tradition, the universe started at a finite, and not very distant, time in the past... today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from." The author disputes popular creationism and monotheistic timing for a more realistic and exceeding time span beyond religionist yearnings. But most recognize the immense time in evidence; even casual interest will intercept the number of light years necessary for visible light particles to travel from the most distant galaxy to earth, 14 billion light years. This immensity disputes monotheism's claim to a late creation and proves astronomical time to far exceed traditional finiteness.

Hawking's interest centers in the ultimate particle and how to overcome Plank's quantum hypothesis; compromised by electron behavior to induction of energy, "... one cannot use an arbitrarily small amount of; one has to use at least one quantum. This quantum will disturb the particle and change its velocity in a way that cannot be predicted." Yet, theorists should be able to predict a speed and quanta outside visible light and with considerable accuracy.

Hawking concludes: Other intelligent life forms might exist; and other universe scenes might appear very beautiful; but they might not contain an intellect able to wonder at that beauty. "One can take this either as evidence of a divine purpose in Creation and the choice of the laws of science or as support for the strong anthropic principle... that this whole vast construction exists simply for our sake. This is very hard to believe."

For a coup de grace, Hawking quotes the philosopher Wittgenstein: "The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language." Hawking then adds: "But if we do discover a complete theory: it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason-for then we would know the mind of God."

"Analysis of language," from the above, is especially relevant in the evaluation of physics and knowing "the mind of God." In biblical immutability, in an analysis of language, we discover a key to resolve the atheist/theist debate and as it might relate to 'the mind of God.' We appreciate the great mind of Stephen Hawking; but in biblical prose, we discover the God residence was moved from its early First Century site: the Temple, to another place: man's intellect. This God residence was finally destined to end the God-husband to tribal-wife marriage contract.

Do any wonder where the God anomaly resided and was to reside at the new site -- and length of tenure? Aside from incomplete records and in lieu of advanced theory, we cannot know the mind of God; for, in the legal-historicity furnishing God ideation, lies an immutable realization: God resides in the mind of men, millions of different minds, and once resident in the Temple until the 'end of all things:' that is, to the end of contract, to the end of Ten Ages. The Bible is much easier to decipher once fully understanding time frame and terminus for the Ten Ages contract. Even so, A Brief History Of Time is an interesting read from front to back.

The key for intercepting mind over matter is available to those with interest.

Ben Winter, particles physicist, Bible scholar, and author of "THE GREAT DECEPTION: Symbols And Numbers Clarified," reveals there 'is' something new under the sun -- that is, for modern Bible students, addressing a correctness of language and true intent of the major Bible topics: solves Bible mysteries, defines Gog and Magog, reveals Daniel He-goat's surprising identity, daring to number the all important Ten Ages. Sign up for FREE book critiques at http://www.winterbriar.com/ and view more articles in blog format at http://blog.thegreatdeception.net/.