Universal Thinker

Really? He doesn’t? Lets look at a couple of the following quotes courtesy of Space and Motion.com Perhaps some analysis of his quotes will bring a frame of reference on which to make judgement.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism. (Albert Einstein)

It’s not that Einstein does not believe in God, its that he does not believe in the anthropomorphized version of God that the world’s three main religions (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) espouse. Einstein is not religious, he is spiritual. He feels that organized religion treats humanity as childlike, needing a father figure; needing a being to which they can relate, someone like themselves.

I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one? (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, 2000 p. 208)

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know his thoughts. The rest are details. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, 2000 p.202)

Try to comprehend all possibility, all potential, everything that is in one moment, and then is not. One cannot. That is why we are human.

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support for such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, p. 214)

As the Guardian article points out below, once again, they are attempting to put words into his mouth:

In the letter, he states: “The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.”

This is not an affirmation of atheism, rather it is striking out against the concept of a reduction to human stature that organized religion has created for the idea of God. You cannot limit that which is limitless. To limit is to control. Einstein does not believe in organized religion but that does not mean he does not believe in Spirituality. Those are two distinct differences.

It seems that the primary source of funding in this endeavor is none other than the Pentagon itself. There is no doubt that there is a definate use for invisible shielding or a cloaking device to create actual (and not just radar) stealth vehicles for use in instruments of war.

The technology that allows for invisibility is known as metamaterials. A metamaterial (or meta material) is a material which gains its properties from its structure rather than directly from its composition. To distinguish metamaterials from other composite materials, the metamaterial label is usually used for a material which has unusual properties.

The property that allows for invisibility in a particular spectrum of light is the negative refractive index. In layman’s terms, this allows a ray of light to be refracted around, for instance, a cylidrical object in such a way that the light bypasses the object entirely thus rendering it invisibile in that particular spectrum of visible light.

This brings to light (absolutely no pun intended) an interesting situation if this were to be engineered to work for all visibile light. Whoever is enclosed by the object, would be in complete darkness due to the fact that all light is bent around the object. How would one see anything? You would still have to have some aspect of the cylinder allowing light to pass through, therefore the object would not be totally invisible, but would have some minute measure of visibility.

If invisibility becomes a possible impossiblity - what type of social ramifications would there be? As Plato wrote in the Republic about the ring of Gyges:

“No man would keep his hands off what was not his own when he could safely take what he liked out of the market, or go into houses and lie with any one at his pleasure, or kill or release from prison whom he would, and in all respects be like a god among men.”

For a man or Government to have this type of power is a dangerous situation indeed.