How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
My dad is a physicist. He works with people who deal in all kinds of weird cosmic s***. String theory. Parallel universes. The viability of time travel. It's not going to build you a better toaster, but it is trippy stuff that makes you spend all day trying to figure it out. (4.43)
It's like trying to do math to prove God exists. Oh wait, can they do that?
Quote #2
Last night, I was so bored I actually watched a public television special about some scientists building their own big bang machine—some kind of super-duper, atom-smasher, supercollider thingy they want to use to discover strings and super-strings and parallel worlds our brains aren't wired to see yet; worlds that could be as small as a snow globe or as big as the Milky Way. Eleven dimensions. That what they say there might be. (10.1)
We're willing to place some bets that this TV special heavily influenced the basis of Cameron's delusional quest. Doesn't this big bang machine sound an awful lot like the Infinity Collider he goes into that was built by Drs. O, T, A and M?
Quote #3
"I will find it. Time, death—these are only illusions. Our atoms, the architecture of the soul, live on. I'm sure of it. […] Somewhere in those eleven dimensions we cannot yet see, like the answers to the greatest questions of all – why are we here? Where do we come from? Where do we go next? Is there a God, and if so, is He unconcerned or just really, really, really busy?" (10.53)
Some argue that religion is something that people have created to answer otherwise unanswerable questions. Faith can provide explanations for the things that remain mysterious to us, the most agonizing question being about whether or not there is an afterlife, and if so, what it's like. In Going Bovine, Bray finds a way to contemplate these questions using an amalgamation of religious beliefs and new wave quantum physics. Instead of using science against religion, she kind of melds it. Cool trick.