if not the only factor in this accident? it certainly is a good candidate for the top of the pile. obviously there will be a lot more analysis done of the scene et cetera, et cetera. but double the speed on a obviously difficult curve is certainly a candidate for being right up there. mr. halstead we just watched tom foreman show us the physics of this. 100 miles an hour versus 50 in a crash like this. what s your experience in similar crashes? well right off the bat, looking at the size of the debris field that we had here the fact that we had a passenger car that was bent virtually in half and the entire train itself was located a significant distance from the track it was
physical world. at the end of it he said there are areas of the human spirit untrammelled by the physics. things of art, things of beauty. at the end of the day the light beckons ahead and the spirit surging within our natures respon respon responds. what he meant by that is there s a lot more to us than merely physics. even m theory, that there s something transcendent. human beings desire at the core of their being. larry: deepak, if people talk to a heavenly father and believe from that talk they get solace, so what? yes, nobody objects to that. on the other hand, as father spitzer said, human beings have a need for meaning. now, you know, leonard and stephen hawking in the book categorically state that this is a deterministic universe, that therefore, free will is an illusion. by saying that, they also imply
whether empirically obvious or not. perhaps there is something more to human beings than merely physics or m theory. maybe we re capable of unconditional love. maybe we have a spiritual nature. we re constantly inquiring because we want the most out of our lives. we don t quash the mystery. we enter into the mystery. most of the time we turn to the mystery by asking questions. there was a great physicist, sir arthur eddington, wrote a book called the nature of the physical world. at the end of it he said there are areas of the human spirit untrammelled by the physics. things of art, things of beauty. at the end of the day the light beckons ahead and the spirit surging within our nature responds. what he meant by that is there s a lot more to us than merely physics. even m theory, that there s something transcendent. human beings desire at the core of their being.