Angelus News | August 2-9, 2019 | Vol. 4 No. 27
A nationwide trend pushing to remove tributes to certain historical figures of U.S. history has seized on a new, unlikely target: the bells lining California’s iconic El Camino Real. The reason? The belief that Spanish missionaries — among them St. Junípero Serra — were oppressors, captors, and even murderers of California’s first peoples. On Page 10, renowned historian Gregory Orfalea examines the most common critiques of the Spanish evangelization of California and makes the case for why the bells represent a legacy of love, not oppression.
A nationwide trend pushing to remove tributes to certain historical figures of U.S. history has seized on a new, unlikely target: the bells lining California’s iconic El Camino Real. The reason? The belief that Spanish missionaries — among them St. Junípero Serra — were oppressors, captors, and even murderers of California’s first peoples. On Page 10, renowned historian Gregory Orfalea examines the most common critiques of the Spanish evangelization of California and makes the case for why the bells represent a legacy of love, not oppression.
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Waking up from the<br />
quantum pipe dream<br />
A renowned physicist makes his case for why<br />
modern science needs to make room for God<br />
BY SOPHIA BUONO / ANGELUS<br />
When Wolfgang Smith<br />
applied to Cornell University<br />
at the age of 14,<br />
he wrote that he wanted<br />
to study physics because he believed<br />
it was “the key to understanding the<br />
universe.”<br />
But he soon changed his mind.<br />
A voracious reader and deep thinker,<br />
the young Smith (who went on to<br />
earn a master’s degree in physics from<br />
Purdue University and a Ph.D. in<br />
mathematics from Columbia University)<br />
found himself drawn to philosophy.<br />
But he found the cold, academic<br />
environment of graduate school a<br />
“profanation” of what he viewed as<br />
a sacred enterprise, one that calls for<br />
wisdom and love, in accord with the<br />
etymology of “philosophia” (“love of<br />
knowledge”).<br />
Fortunately, these setbacks did not<br />
stop Smith’s pursuit of truth, which<br />
finally led him to a realization that<br />
upends modern materialistic science<br />
as we know it.<br />
This realization is the subject of In<br />
Ohm Entertainment’s newly released<br />
documentary, “The End of Quantum<br />
Reality.” As the title suggests, the film<br />
posits that quantum physics, which<br />
has dominated modern science’s interpretation<br />
of the world for decades, has<br />
now been proven untenable, thanks to<br />
Smith’s work.<br />
Spearheaded by Katheryne Thomas<br />
(director and producer) and Rick<br />
DeLano (producer and narrator), the<br />
documentary proceeds to explain the<br />
history, ideas, and paradoxes surrounding<br />
quantum physics.<br />
Physicist Wolfgang Smith.<br />
Katheryne Thomas, director and producer.<br />
It soon becomes clear that while the<br />
theory, which has developed since<br />
the 19th century by various physicists,<br />
most notably Max Planck and Albert<br />
Einstein, provides a mathematical<br />
description of physical reality with<br />
pinpoint accuracy, it also raises some<br />
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Rick DeLano, producer and narrator.<br />
serious metaphysical problems.<br />
Essentially, quantum physics rests<br />
upon the notion that particles only<br />
come into existence upon observation<br />
and that they are otherwise in a state<br />
of “potentiality.” This, in turn, leads<br />
to the conclusion that our world holds<br />
SCREENSHOT VIA VIMEO<br />
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28 • ANGELUS • <strong>August</strong> 2-9, <strong>2019</strong>