{"id":159819,"date":"2023-03-08T09:24:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/more-speculations-on-superfluid-vacuum-physics-and-theology"},"modified":"2023-03-08T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:24:52","slug":"more-speculations-on-superfluid-vacuum-physics-and-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/more-speculations-on-superfluid-vacuum-physics-and-theology","title":{"rendered":"More speculations on superfluid vacuum physics and theology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/more-speculations-on-superfluid-vacuum-physics-and-theology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I <a class=\"\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/turingchurch.net\/consciousness-crystal-brains-and-superintelligence-in-the-superfluid-quantum-vacuum-a419938bf04\">recently speculated<\/a> on a toy model for scientific theology, with superintelligent God-like entities that live in the bare quantum vacuum. More speculations below.<\/p>\n<p>This is not (yet) science \u2014 it\u2019s far too vague and speculative to be called that \u2014 or theology. Call it science fiction (or \u201creligion fiction\u201d in the sense explored in my article \u201c<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.transfigurist.org\/2015\/01\/religion-fiction-inspires-real-religion.html\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Religion Fiction Inspires Real Religion<\/a>\u201d) without the fiction. I guess I should write a science fiction story as a container for these speculations.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I\u2019ll often refer to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superfluid_vacuum_theory\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">superfluid vacuum theory<\/a> (SVT) as \u201c<a class=\"\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/turingchurch.net\/the-cooper-hofstadter-theory-of-the-superfluid-vacuum-78b9d0934758\">Cooper-Hofstadter theory<\/a>\u201d \u2014 a SVT that was featured in \u201c<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Big_Bang_Theory\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em class=\"\">The Big Bang Theory<\/em><\/a>\u201d TV show, of all things! Also, I guess <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sheldon_Cooper\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sheldon Cooper<\/a> is more known than <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leon_Cooper\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Leon Cooper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently speculated on a toy model for scientific theology, with superintelligent God-like entities that live in the bare quantum vacuum. More speculations below. This is not (yet) science \u2014 it\u2019s far too vague and speculative to be called that \u2014 or theology. Call it science fiction (or \u201creligion fiction\u201d in the sense explored in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}