Communication, Argument and Conversation for Anglicans
Abstract
BruceKaye Fred Hoyle was one of the most distinguished astro-physicists of the twentieth century. In 1957 he published a science ction book, The Black Cloud. This was the story of a black cloud of immense intelligence that settled itself between the sun and the earth, gradually freezing the earth. A special group of highly intelligent scientists was set up in a country house in Nortonstowe, England and with highly complex computers tried to communicate with the cloud. This did not work and one scientist connected the information stream directly to his brain and died. His brain was not up to handling the material. While the scientists reviewed this development the gardener, a simple person, wandered into the radio shack and put the earphones on and conducted a conversation with the cloud. He was able to converse and obtained an extensive story about how the cloud had been looking for the beginning of the universe, and had searched for some super nova which had occurred in the vicinity of the universe. Fred Hoyle, with tongue in cheek, was trying to say that the way in which the physicists had learned to think was inadequate. A different kind of thinking