The neutrino’s size has never been measured, so it’s approximated by
reference to the field of its electroweak interaction, at 〈r²〉 = n × 10−33 cm²
(n × 1 nanobarn). Since it does not interact in the “normal” electromagnetic
sense, it’s a bit disingenuous to speak of it even having a size, as it’s more
of a wavefunction. But we have detected them, for many years now, in
several countries at numerous sites. Pretty amazing, right?
So, a simple question for the religious: If we can detect something this small
and this hard to detect, why haven’t we ever found god(s) or a soul? If we
have technology that can do this amazing feat of identifying a single
neutrino, why can’t we detect these supposedly everyday “facts” in our
lives?
So, what About Finding God(s)?
For finding a god, the response of believers will, of course, be that God
doesn’t exist in our world of three spatial dimensions. I guess he/she/it pops
into our reality to perform the odd miracle or hear a prayer or two, maybe to
start a tsunami. But he/she/it never stays around long enough to be
detected. God doesn’t dawdle over an extra caramel latte at Starbucks. Pop!
Earthquake, find the missing child, Cure/cause the cancer, etc., and then
pop! Gone again before we can ever train a god detector in his/her/it’s
direction. Where are the Ghostbusters when you need them?
None of this, of course, is in any of the major holy books because they were
all written by people who thought that God was in the sky, on top of a
mountain, or somewhere “up there” (and a few gods were “down there”
too). They had no concept of other dimensions, let alone the depths of
space, and I guess the gods didn’t either since there is no mention of them
in the holy books or any other literature of antiquity. Now, here I have to
make a possible exception for Hinduism, which was arguably a bit more
accommodating to conceptual extra-dimensional space in some
interpretations of its descriptions of the divine. It’s also interesting to
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