Physics Maths & God

Ruminations on science, God, Life, the Universe and everything

This website explores some of the lesser-known regions of physics, maths, philosophy and science and their relationship to God, in a series of small whimsical articles. The collection will slowly enlarge as further snippets get polished.

Try browsing a few to see if they suit your taste.

The two snippets below will give you a feel for the kind of articles you will find on this website:

Sodom and Bolides

In the Biblical story of the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, the towns are destroyed by “fire and sulphur” from heaven. Did it really happen? The most recent scientific evidence is that it probably did, in 1680 BC.

A long article in Nature (2021) by a large collaboration of scientists describes decades-long archeological studies at the largest city ruins in the Jordan Valley, to be found just north of the Dead Sea. The authors of the paper avoid calling the ruins “Sodom”, but the coincidences are very great, and I think the city was indeed Sodom. This snippet describes the results and further explains some features not covered in the paper.

Scientists speculate on the destruction of Sodom

A Miyake Event would look like this - all over the world

Miyake Events, Human DNA and Space Travel

Once in about every thousand years a huge dose of cosmic rays hits earth and radiation dose rates for earth-dwellers rise to about 100x normal. A Japanese scientist called Fusa Miyake, and her co-workers, discovered the phenomenon in 2023 and other scientists, particularly those working on Antarctic ice cores confirm these events, which have now been called Miyake events.

Who am I? I am Dr Neil Whitehead, a scientist from New Zealand. I have worked in many inter-disciplinary fields for the NZ Government, Japanese Universities and the United Nations. I am the author of 160 published peer-reviewed papers and books.

My preoccupation with abstract ideals started at an early age, and philosophy, science, physics, maths and God have fascinated me ever since. It started when I was apparently 10 months old and has never stopped. But it's become subject to God - the Divine Reality - who to my great delight is Infinite.

The snippets simply assume God exists and is not the rather impersonal God of some physicists, mathematicians and philosophers, but laughs, acts, speaks, cares, cleans up our messes, and rescues. He is not identified with matter or principles, but pervades them all, and somehow acts on and through them.

They are whimsical on my part rather than God’s! I hope you find them intriguing, sometimes provocative, but positive. They are novel and some to my knowledge are completely original.

The small snippet below introduces me.

Some ideals can be made of sand

Cone of Sand

My first memory is of an ideal cone of sand!

It was on the road in a small town called Blenheim, in New Zealand. My mother always claimed I was 10 months old when this happened, which would have made it August 1944. I remember I could walk, but not yet speak. Although the age may be wishful thinking, it was still remarkable and unusual for a first memory. My mother and a neighbour were talking alongside the sand, outside our house.

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