The title of Dr. Claude Swanson book is "The Synchronized Universe" which indicates a connectedness with everything operating in unison and simultaneously but seems to suggest further that it is mechanical and clockwork. I ask the question ...... is a synchronized universe the same as an infinite universe? To this question the answer is NO. On further examination of the book's claims we see why ....... it is attempting to link science and spirituality and thus muddle scientific analysis which is a big no no for the Denman.
There will always be this opposition between deterministic and indeterministic views of the world but science can only operate as deterministic. When we get mixtures of deterministic and indeterministic assumptions we get poor science, no science, serious confusion and dare I say corruption. This book starts with this indeterministic assumption about something called "dark matter" which is a derivative of another indeterministic assumption the "big bang" origin of the universe. So it goes on. People build their reputations on the perpetuation of this nonsense but worse, otherwise intelligent scientists promulgate these stooopid ideas too, selling books, talking about black holes, time travel, an expanding universe, or multiple universes, or parallel universes, or curved space or gravity as an attraction ....... which is just science fiction.
To put it bluntly, we want a scientific revolution that takes religious fantasy and that includes this obsession with our human consciousness, out of the scientific process. We are all scientists one way or another because we depend on finding a relationship between cause and effect. This behaviour demonstrates a belief in causality and to this extent we hold fast to a belief in the philosophy of determinism. THUS we need good science not something muddled nor corrupted with fanciful magic.
ps ......(just for George)
Kerry Packer, after being revived by an emergency medical team that happened to be passing, famously said: "I've been to the other side, and let me tell you, son, there's f..king nothing there."
