You are sooooo lucky.. I would love to do theoretical physics.. but I don’t have any kind of school education.. I was in the class for special needs children..
Don't let that put you off! A unique mind is often the key to unlocking new discoveries - Einstein himself is meant to have had no 'central groove' in his brain, which is why he could conceive all the weird things of General Relativity.
I have mostly done gardening to make a living. But in my spare time I like to read up on stuff.. and I think a lot about what I’ve learned.. and then come up with good ideas…... I enjoy problem solving.
Then you and I share an innate curiosity about the world
Do you have lots of new ideas and theories.. ?
Have you tried meditation to boost intuition.. ? ……….It works!
I do meditate from time to time, more as a habit from my Pagan days. Nothing like wandering down to my local forest and meditating under my favourite tree in the height of Summer.
This very much depends how you define – atheist
"One who is not a theist".
In this respect we must agree to differ.
Doubting Thomas that I am.. I searched.. but...
No results found for "max Planck was an atheist
But I did find this..
Max Planck (1858-1947)
Planck made many contributions to physics, but is best known for quantum theory, which revolutionized our understanding of the atomic and sub-atomic worlds.
In his 1937 lecture "Religion and Naturwissenschaft," Planck expressed the view that God is everywhere present, and held that "the holiness of the unintelligible Godhead is conveyed by the holiness of symbols." Atheists, he thought, attach too much importance to what are merely symbols.
Planck was a churchwarden from 1920 until his death, and believed in an almighty, all-knowing, beneficent God (though not necessarily a personal one). Both science and religion wage a "tireless battle against skepticism and dogmatism, against unbelief and superstition" with the goal "toward God!"
Max thinks the much the same as I do.. symbolic language has nothing to do with the supernatural. This is a wide-spead mis-conception.. and the reason I dropped out of atheism.
Sorry I can’t post any links till I notch up 50 posts.
I searched for that particular quote, and all I could find were sites about 'scientists who believed in God'. I've seen those sorts of sites before, and they sadly routinely spread lies about the beliefs of these men and women, even when said scientists have explicitly refuted those claims.
A common chestnut is to use Einstein's frequent poetic use of the word 'God', such as "I am convinced [God] does not play dice", etc. However, Einstein himself set the record straight: "
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
As for Planck, when questioned about whether he had converted to Catholicism (as was being spread among religious circles), he said he did not believe "
in a personal God, let alone a Christian God".
But yea. While about 40% of scientists believe in some form of deity, the remaining 60%, as well as the greats (Plank, Einstein, Darwin, Hawking, etc) do not. Sadly, this doesn't stop viscous rumours being spread.
Aren't black holes formed from neutron stars collapsing,,?
It's been a long time since I read up on this stuff.
But black holes are fascinating..
Indeed they are. In general, a black hole is any lump of matter being squeezed so much that it fits inside a particular imaginary sphere (the radius of the sphere being defined solely in terms of how much mass there is). Once that happens, it will become a black hole, as the gravity cannot be countered by the other forces - it continues to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze, creating all sorts of funky phenomena.