What is more terrifying than love? How can one not be overwhelmed by the majesty of a creator who gives and destroys life in equal measure, with breathtaking swiftness? You look at all the swelling rose hips in the garden that will wither and die without ever germinating and it seems a miracle that you are alive at all. It’s very confusing.” “Ah,” said Sheikh Bilal, looking melancholy, “but that’s the point. And then at the same time, you ask us to love the God who has this terrible sword hanging over our necks. Real life is awfully permanent compared to that, and a lot of religious people make it seem even more permanent-one step the wrong way, one sin too many, and it’s the fiery furnace for you. “You’re not a failure, Uncle,” he said, the words awkward and insufficient in his mouth.
I've never heard anybody make that comparison.” Let me rephrase what I think you have said in language from my own field of study: they say that each word in the Quran has seven thousand layers of meaning, each of which, though some might seem contrary or simply unfathomable to us, exist equally at all times without cosmological contradiction. Quantum computers could use ones and zeroes in an unlimited number of states, so in theory, they could store massive amounts of data and perform tasks that regular computers can't perform." Regular computers use a binary language to figure things out and talk to each other-ones and zeroes. It will use qubits instead of-well, that's kind of complicated.
"Quantum? Oh dear, I've never heard of that."
Quantum computing will be the next thing, but I don't think it will be capable of transcribing thought." "Thinking it?" Alif smiled contemptuously. “At what point will I be able to write an e-mail to my grandson in Bahrain merely by thinking it?" Willow Wilson, quote from Alif the Unseen Man’s knowledge of the universe may grow, but ºyw does not change.” “That’s. Thus, in man’s infancy, ºyw was a grain of sand. No part of it lifts out-it does not mean smallest, nor indivisible, nor particle, but all those things at once. That is the meaning packaged in the word. ºyw must refer to some fundamental thing. Each of those will be the original meaning of ºyw.” Alif snorted. In a hundred years, some vanishingly small object so foreign to the human mind that only Adam remembers its name. But why stop there? Tomorrow, it might be quark. Today, the original meaning might be hadron. In the twentieth century, atom became the original meaning of ºyw, because an atom was the tiniest object known to man. He looked, Alif thought, like some demonic caricature of a saint. There’s no way atom is the original meaning of that word.” “Ah.” Vikram held up two fingers in a sign of benediction. “You don’t find that strange, considering atoms were unknown in the sixth century?” The convert chewed her lip. How do they translate ºyw in your English interpretation?” “Atom,” said the convert.
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