Еве нешто интересно што за религијата и науката има напишано типот кој што ја има измислено микробрановата печка и и соодветно на тоа има добиено Нобелова награда за физика:
Physicist Charles Townes in his office at Birge Hall. The department will celebrate Townes's 90th birthday with a
symposium in the fall. (BAP photos) 'Explore as much as we can': Nobel Prize winner Charles Townes on evolution, intelligent design, and the meaning of life
By
Bonnie Azab Powell, NewsCenter | 17 June 2005
BERKELEY – Religion and science, faith and empirical experiment: these terms would seem to have as little in common as a Baptist preacher and a Berkeley physicist. And yet, according to Charles Hard Townes, winner of a Nobel Prize in Physics and a UC Berkeley professor in the Graduate School, they are united by similar goals: science seeks to discern the laws and order of our universe; religion, to understand the universe's purpose and meaning, and how humankind fits into both.
Where these areas intersect is territory that Townes has been exploring for many of his 89 years, and in March his insights were honored with the 2005 Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities. Worth about $1.5 million, the Templeton Prize recognizes those who, throughout their lives, have sought to advance ideas and/or institutions that will deepen the world's understanding of God and of spiritual realities.
Townes first wrote about the parallels between religion and science in IBM's
Think magazine in 1966, two years after he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work in quantum electronics: in 1953, thanks in part to what Townes calls a "revelation" experienced on a park bench, he invented the maser (his acronym for Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission), which amplifies microwaves to produce an intense beam. By building on this work, he achieved similar amplification using visible light, resulting in the laser (whose name he also coined).
Even as his research interests have segued from microwave physics to astrophysics, Townes has continued to explore topics such as "Science, values, and beyond," in
Synthesis of Science and Religion (1987), "On Science, and what it may suggest about us," in
Theological Education (1988), and "Why are we here; where are we going?" in
The International Community of Physics, Essays on Physics (1997).
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