Ted,
Thank you so much for the two papers. I read them carefully, thank you. Up until today, I had never heard of John Polkinghorne. What an amazing person. Working with Gell-Mann, Wienstein and Salem on weak-electromagnetic unification. Really amazing work that benefited humanity in the basic understandings of the real physical world.
After reading those two papers, I needed to go back and solve a more fundamental problem. My original title for this thread was “Does Quantum Mechanic Disprove an All-Knowing God?” Clearly
from John Polkinghorne, QM doesn’t disprove an all-knowing God. You can’t prove there is no God or any supernatural agent not impacting the outcomes of QM systems like quantum computers, radioactivity, and genetic mutations. So from both the physical and metaphysical realms, a person or machine can’t know if the results were random or there has been intervention by a supernatural, metaphysical realm. So here is now the new fundamental problem and it is more of an engineering problem than anything else. And it has an engineering solution to it rather than a theological answers as I am a better engineer than a theologian.
Problem: I (and many others) have told the Government that it is possible to build a perfectly secure communications system using quantum entanglement and other quantum mechanical properties. A lot of progress has been made on such systems this century. Alice sends a quantum encrypted message to Bob and Bob can be 100% sure that the message he receives is the one Alice sent and that nobody has intercepted that message or manipulated it in any way. Should some entity try to intercept the message, they would not get the message just garbage as the quantum states before detection by Bob is unknowable and would collapse to a different state (message) if intercepted by anybody before Bob’s detector. Polkinghorne discusses this very case and concludes that in the physical domain, it is easy to prove that the communication system is perfectly secure. But he also says that it is impossible to show that God can’t know or can’t intercept the communication. I accept this. But I still need to design a prefect QM communication system that I am 100% certain is not possible to intercept both physical and metaphysically.
I break the problem into two parts: how to design the prefectly secure QM physical system and how to design the perfectly secure physical AND metaphysical system. The physical system is hard work, taking years of research but it coming along well. There are presently QM communication systems using entanglement that work pretty good. Improvements are need but the science and technology are progressing. But I still want to make this QM system 100% secure against intervention by God and other supernatural agents.
Why? well God doesn’t keep his knowledge secret. He tends to tell people and they tend to misinterpret what He says. So I want Bob to know that when He receives the message from Alice that it hasn’t been intercepted nor manipulated. I am not okay with the God of the OT intercepting the message and telling other people, He is kind of vengeful and I don’t know what He would do to Alice or Bob or all the rest of us. I certainly don’t want Allah to intercept the message, as the people who believe in Him want to kill us all as non-believers. The NT God, the son Jesus, and the holy spirit together three in one is much more forgiving, I don’t mind them intervening but they then to eigher do nothing or tell very different message to a large number of Christian groups and individuals. And because I want Alice and Bob to use this QM communications systems anywhere even in space and the rest of the universe, I want to make it secure from interception and manipulation from other supernatural agent, spiritualistic, anything metaphysical, anything Deepak Chopra can come up with.
Solution: I went to millennial computer scientist Nancy for help. She is very bright and a great coder. What she build was a software module to put right after Bob detector right before he gets the message. The piece of code is called a Supernatual Intrusion Nullifier (SIN). SIN has the following properties. SIN knows what Alice’s message is, even before she sends it. SIN uses the exact same metaphysical powers as God, Allah, Spirituality uses. In fact SIN is super-supernatural. It is God 2.0, Allah 3.0. This software module sits after the Bob’s detector and looks at the message that comes in and compares them with Alices message that was sent (And that it knows). If the message are the same, SIN does nothing at all. If the detected message is different, SIN inverts the message, nullifying the manipulation that God did. Bob is 100% certain that the messages he recieved are from Alice non manipulated. Problem solved! The QM communication system is 100% secure both from physical and metaphysical manipulation.
Test Results: In extensive testing of all QM system to date with the SIN module installed has shown that it has never had to nullify God’s manipulation. It just keeps run comparing messages with no nullification needed, as if God wasn’t making any changes to the messages that Alice sent.
So God may have the power to influence the QM system, but so far He hasn’t and no other spiritual metaphysical entity has. With the SIN module installed I can confidently proclaim that the QM Communications system is secure against manipulation by both physical and metaphysical entities.
Lastly I want to say that we are training millennials coders how to design better SIN modules - we call it secular education, critical thinking, and reasoning so that they can lead meaningful purposeful lives.
Thanks again for pointing me to John Polkinghorne.