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I liked the part about the Big Bank Theory.  Creation out of nothing.
Sounds like the Federal Reserve.

Mark

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:26 PM, ADRIE KINTZIGER <parser666 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here they are referring implicitly to Eisteins so called biggest
> mistake, the cosmological constant.
> It's bashed since he gave up on it.
>
> nowadays science is turning around, very carefully it is assumed now, but
> hypothetical that there is a cosmological constant to be found, a mechanis
> sm behind it all.
>
> I think it will be found some day.
>
> Pay attention to the parts as where the authors are calling any subject or
> object
> statement meaningless.
> ggod book , btw, for a change.
>
> 2010/12/2 MarshaV <valkyr at att.net>
>
>>
>> M:
>>     "The Buddhist view does not, however, exclude the possibility of the
>> unfolding of the world.  Obviously the phenomena we all see around us aren't
>> nonexistent, but if we examine _how_ they exist, then we soon see that they
>> can't be viewed as a set of independent entities, each with its own
>> existence.  Thus, phenomena exist only as a dream, an illusion or mirage.
>>  Like mirror images, they can clearly be seen, but have no separate
>> existence.  Nagarjuna, the great second-century Indian philosopher, said,
>> "The nature of phenomena is that of mutual dependence; in themselves,
>> phenomena are nothing at all."  Their evolution is neither random nor fixed
>> by divine intervention.  Instead, they follow the laws of cause and effect
>> in a global interdependence and reciprocal causality.  The problem of an
>> "origin" comes about only from a belief in the absolute reality of phenomena
>> and the existence of space and time.
>>
>>     "In terms of absolute truth, there is no creation, no duration, and no
>> end.  The paradox is a good illustration of the illusory nature of the world
>> of phenomena.  It can reveal itself in an infinite number of ways because
>> its final reality is emptiness.  In terms of the relative truth of
>> appearances, we say that the conditioned world, called samsara, is "without
>> beginning" because each state must have caused by the previous one.  So,
>> with the Big Bank theory, do we have an _ex nihilo_ creation, a creation out
>> of nothingness, or the expression of some kind of preexisting potential that
>> is not yet manifested in the universe?  Is it seen as a real beginning, or
>> as a stage in the universe's evolution?"
>>
>>
>> 'Mathieu Ricard & Trinh Xuan Thuan, 'The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey
>> to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet',p.29)
>>
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