The Rabbi

Greene writes superbly, highly technical vocabulary and concepts become understandable as his simply stated arguments describe Einstein and quantum mechanics cojoined by string theory. Macro and micro physics have merged in ways previously, even recently, unimagined. The reader's attention lies in Greene's hands as he works back in time, space, and temperature to the instant of the big bang, a mere 15 billion years ago. But then the mathematics, physics end being replaced by speculative cosmology and the scientists hope of better observations, data, calculations that would yield theory currently unexplainable.

Here are some words to ponder, "In plain language, things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice." That is, perhaps no matter how physicists proceed, the answer to the question how did it all begin?, lies beyond our ability to discern. I guess one could say that is god, but then physicists don't include one in their calculations. I guess the world-view proponents propose such an exercise as christian math, but I don't get that point.

More christians should read Greene to better understand the platform from which science operates, its strengths and weaknesses. This is hardly a idle occupation.