Science, Religion, and the multiverse

Which is true science or religion? Which religion is true if science is not? The way they conflict either all are true or none are true. All religions cannot be true in the same reality.

However there is no reason that there has to be only one reality. There may be multiple realities in what science has come to refer to as the multiverse.

Different outcomes branch off into different universes or realities. There is no reason that realities need to be either completely separate from each other or completely the same. Rather there may be a kind of co-mingling where by realities intersect at many places and part at others.

At church, realities divulge allowing each religion to be true for its believers. Conversely non-believers are not affected by the religions of others having their own realities to insulate them from vengeful gods not theirs.

Science, by its nature, must exist in many if not all realities. It is not changeable or dependent on belief. It sets the ground rules that differing realities must adhere to. This brings the obvious question as to the validity of miracles. Can miracles happen without breaking the rules of science?

When Joshua got extended daylight for battle it did not have to be because the earth stopped in its orbit. The earth cannot stop in its orbit. However there are sources of light not inconsistent with science. There could have been a supernova or a black hole digesting a planet in a nearby solar system. A comet or series of comets could have entered the atmosphere lighting up the sky in their death throes. An alien space ship with an active fusion drive could have been visiting.

There are any numbers of sources of light for 3 days. The people of that time period were not well versed in science that had not yet been discovered. They may have thought that the earth or the sun stopped in the sky,regardless of the real source of light.

Therefore miracles could have occurred without breaking any rules of science. Some miracles just involve an unlikely event occurring in conjunction with prayer. Some sick patients not expected to survive may get well. This happens all the time. Medical science is not all knowing. Prayer may well improve the chance of recovery. Within the rules luck and faith have the flexibility to influence outcomes.

Quantum entanglement teleportation

Quantum entanglement may allow the eventual deployment of matter teleportation. With quantum entanglement two electrons created together will continue to interact even if separated by a great distance. This continued interaction could allow for long distance information transfer and reconstruction of the original.

Teleportation could allow a kind of time travel that provides a work around to the light speed limit on space travel. The late great Carl Sagan wrote of a method of time travel using wormholes. Wormholes are tunnels in space-time. Sagan noted that if you were able to accelerate one end of a wormhole to a speed approaching the speed of light, then time dilation would cause that end of the wormhole to fall into the past relative to the other end. There is no reason that connected teleportation terminal could not be used in place of wormholes in the same manner.

Star travel could be practical using this method. The closer one gets to the speed of light the slower time passes for the speedy traveler. However the rate of time does not change for outside observers. Therefore it would be possible for a space ship undergoing sufficient constant acceleration to travel to many stars and explore the galaxy. The problem is that the traveler could not return to those they left behind because millions of years would have passed on earth. That is why the return journey would have to include time travel using the teleportation terminals.

Simply leave one of the terminals at your starting point. Take the connecting terminal with you and use it to return home to your date of departure. Follow up trips to the same destination would be even easier once the connection is made.