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December 31, 2007
Chestnuts Roasting on an Exploding Planet
The site LiveScience has a compulsively readable section of Top Ten lists, from useless limbs to killer tornados. For readers with a sweep of vision, you can't do better than "Top Ten Ways to Destroy Earth." The list proceeds according to probability. The one way you need to least worry about is Total Existence Failure:
You will need: nothingMethod: No method. Simply sit back and twiddle your thumbs as, completely by chance, all 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms making up the planet Earth suddenly, simultaneously and spontaneously cease to exist. Note: the odds against this actually ever occurring are considerably greater than a googolplex to one. Failing this, some kind of arcane (read: scientifically laughable) probability-manipulation device may be employed.
Utter, utter rubbish.
This being Kesher Talk, I like to present an opposing view, from that eminent scientist-philosopher Maimonides. The last two of his 13 Principles apply here. Take it away, Rambam:
12. I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah. How long it takes, I will await His coming every day..13. I believe with perfect faith that the dead will be brought back to life when G-d wills it to happen
Doesn't that make you feel better? It does for me.
Van | 12/31/07 at 08:39 AM | Categories: - Amazing things
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