Bilocation and the speed of light.
“You shall be as gods!” - Genesis
Two German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light:
“The pair say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - energetic packets of light - travelled “instantaneously” between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart.
Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences.
For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving.” - Telegraph
Almost better than bilocation.
This stuff fascinates me. What if that is what Ven. Mary of Agreda did when she catechized the native peoples of the southwestern U.S. before the missionaries got there? Or when Padre Pio was seen in Rome, though his superiors insist he never left the friary?
We will be like gods! (Sinister laughter.)
August 16th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
I have two degrees in Physics and I’m more sceptical about those cheeky microwave photons than I am about bilocation!
What about those saints that regularly defied gravity? Christina Mirabilis was busy defying gravity in the 1220s and that is excusable. Lots of strange things happened in the 1200s. BUT what about St Joseph Cupertino (d. 1663)?! Galileo was dead and buried, and St Joseph Cupertino was there smashing the laws of Physics as Newton, Huygens, Descartes and Pascal were constructing them and the “rational” world that most peoples’ minds still inhabit. Sheer brilliance, if you ask me!
August 16th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I am forever fascinated with the idea of bilocation (can I use it, if I get it, to spy on my children?… guess that’s why I don’t get it:>) and time travel.
Very interesting.
August 16th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
I kind of like the idea of moving faster than light to go back and change a few decisions that I have made over time and prevent a bunch of sins, too.
August 16th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Yeah Ray - I went over to Cathy’s and back again and never left my chair.
August 17th, 2007 at 6:36 am
Padre Pio is an amazing saint, who had so many charisms. I just heard a story on Relevant Radio that he chased a woman out of the confessional just as she knelt down to confess. She returned, indignant, to find out the reason. He scolded her and told her that when she entered the confessional he had a vision of her three children being in hell because of her permissiveness and negligence, then told her to get on her knees and confess. I bet she wished she could travel back in time and correct things. The whole bilocation thing makes me wonder if it would make me more busy or if I would be able to get more done ;}
August 17th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Monica - the saddesst part of that story is the part where Padre Pio told the woman her children were in hell. It remids me of what st. John of the Crosss said regarding parents so aanxious for children, only to raise them for hell when they get them. Parenting is an awesome responsibility.
August 17th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Occasionally, Father Corapi has been called upon to serve as a one man SWAT team for an engaged couple in a Pre-Cana Conference.
He quickly reminds them that the truest evidence of their love for each other is that both are totally committed to make sure that the other makes it to Heaven.
And that goes for the children, too.
August 17th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Terry:
The saddest part is that the children were in hell BECAUSE OF HER. Now that I have kids, the responsibility is almost overwhelming. Today on RR, Father Corapi was talking about his own very pious mother who’s own three children fell away from the Church…eventually all to return. It’s a hard thing to parent because one has to completely rely on God, especially in this day, to assist (lead may be a better word) in raising the kids with any chance of remaining Catholic. That’s the heavy responsibility part, but it is outweighed by the joy of having them!
August 21st, 2007 at 6:21 pm
That was Mary Agreeda? I thought it was the Blessed Virgin.