On the Road to God: Einstein’s Imaginary Journey Around the Universe
On the Road to God: Einstein’s Imaginary Journey Around the Universe
Author(s): Zdeněk SmrčkaSubject(s): Religion and science , Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science, Psychology of Religion
Published by: Международное философско-космологическое общество
Keywords: Albert Einstein; Euler’s identity; God; imagination; Lambert W function; scale factor; spacetime; thought experiment; Universe;
Summary/Abstract: A revived figure of teenage Albert Einstein is confronted at the threshold of the second millennium with a problem of a graphical likeness of the Lambert W function-based cosmological equations to a logarithmic-exponential discontinuous function that he has just plotted. To puzzle the issue out his mind is put onto an imaginary mathematical-philosophical-physical trail ride around the Universe. Euler’s identity that he invited to ride pillion on his Pegasus of Imagination spanks the cavalier’s horse to carry him on wings of Leibniz’ zero-nothingness unity-infiniteness array towards a non-Euclidean landscape of novel cosmological equations – which describe behaviour of principal cosmological parameters as an exclusive function of the scale factor. Zero, unity, π, and Euler’s number become in the rider’s eyes a quaternion of linesmen – and the imaginary unit the one who as a chief referee opens and controls on the space-time playground a collective mass-energy game. And while the young cavalier observes from a horseback of his mount that within the playground expansion the cosmic match is running into the order of timelessness and spacelessness the Universe with all of its ever existing forms and events, thoughts and memories, unveils to him its all-encompassing face of eternity and immortality attributable to God.
Journal: Philosophy and Cosmology
- Issue Year: 31/2023
- Issue No: 31
- Page Range: 116-132
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English