Title: The Low-faith Concept of the Soul from The God Patent

Speaker: Ransom Stephens, Ph.D., Ransom@RansomStephens.com

Description:

Every belief – whether in accepted fact, empirically based mathematical science, or myth and legend – is predicated to some extent on faith. In this presentation, we examine a model for the soul that is inspired by well established physics principles. At those points where faith is required to step forward, we insist that, instead of taking blind leaps, the questions of faith be explicitly defined. Using superposition from quantum mechanics, the concept of identical particles and the character of quantum states from statistical mechanics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the concepts of real and virtual processes and the principle of observability, together with a thought experiment involving neural networks and St. Thomas Aquinas’s definitions of free will and the soul, we will derive a model for the eternal soul that is aware, eternal, consistent with a specific model of reincarnation, and whose acceptance/rejection is distilled to a single question of faith.

Details:

Available as a 50 or 75 minute speech.

Presentation includes PPT slides and requires an overhead projector.

Each presentation is customized to address the specific needs of the audience.

About the speaker:

Ransom Stephens, Ph.D., is a professor of particle physics turned writer and speaker. He has worked on experiments at SLAC, Fermilab, CERN, and Cornell; discovered a new type of matter formed by the fusion of two photons, made the most precise measurements of rare bottom quark decays in the world, and was on the team that discovered the top quark. His new novel, The God Patent (www.TheGodPatent.com), is set in the battle between science and religion over the nature of the soul and the origin of the universe. The story is wrapped around the role of faith in both science and religion and concludes with a surly adolescent math prodigy’s discovery of the nature of the eternal soul.