(^^) Glad to be your first then! I say the title "physicist" with reference to being a 4th year - meaning final-year undergraduate Masters - student of a MSci (Hons) Physics with Astrophysics degree. Technically, I have not graduated yet (although most of my friends have now left me, since they were on the Bachelors course), but we've been told that once into 2nd year it would be appropriate to term ourselves as physicists and I have been using the title since as such.
It's just personal opinion, but I do know some other physicists who share my observations, that physics and philosophy can come very close together at times - especially when one starts approaching the world of Quantum Mechanics, where you have to start thinking more abstractly (in the case of QM, trying to understand it using philosophical techniques as a placeholder is often the only way to grasp the inital theory of it, before applying physical knowledge).
If it makes any sense whatsoever, I am deep down, both consciously and unconsciously, an Atheist, but I would perhaps like to entertain the idea of Agnosticism (even though/but my rational and dominant mind will not let me), simply because the thought of "nothingness" terrifies me - the idea that I wouldn't be "aware" anymore. Please don't hold it against me. I'm basing my thoughts on 21 years of life experience, old enough, but still whimsical. One of my good friends helped a lot with that "fear" though, when he said to me, "Well... You didn't care before you wre born, so why would you care when you're dead?" :) An excellent point which has done much to alleviate me.
My thoughts on the subject aren't as well formed as yours, meaning I have opinions but I haven't thought all that deeply about it. What you have said regarding "why would unphysical beings generate a physical universe" make sense though, and was a view my father used to share. :D He used to half-jokingly hold the opinion that if there was an "afterlife" of a sort, it was simply a different dimension where physicalness didn't exist.
Until a few very serious things can be reasonably explained to me with reasonable evidence to support it, I shall hold my tongue.
Precisely my point-of-view. *glomps you* :DDDDDDD Which is epic, considering House's, "judging by the amount of natural disasters" comment. :DDD 'Nuff said.
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Date: 2009-09-01 07:57 am (UTC)It's just personal opinion, but I do know some other physicists who share my observations, that physics and philosophy can come very close together at times - especially when one starts approaching the world of Quantum Mechanics, where you have to start thinking more abstractly (in the case of QM, trying to understand it using philosophical techniques as a placeholder is often the only way to grasp the inital theory of it, before applying physical knowledge).
If it makes any sense whatsoever, I am deep down, both consciously and unconsciously, an Atheist, but I would perhaps like to entertain the idea of Agnosticism (even though/but my rational and dominant mind will not let me), simply because the thought of "nothingness" terrifies me - the idea that I wouldn't be "aware" anymore. Please don't hold it against me. I'm basing my thoughts on 21 years of life experience, old enough, but still whimsical. One of my good friends helped a lot with that "fear" though, when he said to me, "Well... You didn't care before you wre born, so why would you care when you're dead?" :) An excellent point which has done much to alleviate me.
My thoughts on the subject aren't as well formed as yours, meaning I have opinions but I haven't thought all that deeply about it. What you have said regarding "why would unphysical beings generate a physical universe" make sense though, and was a view my father used to share. :D He used to half-jokingly hold the opinion that if there was an "afterlife" of a sort, it was simply a different dimension where physicalness didn't exist.
Until a few very serious things can be reasonably explained to me with reasonable evidence to support it, I shall hold my tongue.
Precisely my point-of-view. *glomps you* :DDDDDDD Which is epic, considering House's, "judging by the amount of natural disasters" comment. :DDD 'Nuff said.
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