Wonderful mix of the scientific with the magical, immaginative, and spiritual. Combined to deliver a heart warming and beautiful story.
The conservation of energy, schrödinger's cat, and the original source of the elements in our bodies in this case.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
It makes sense for Sam to entertain the idea with his mom first rather than risk being shunned and ridiculed by a hard headed scientist.
forming a ball of light that would then send its rays out into infinity, seeking the direction of the window of the room where her son slept, to illuminate it with its eternal light.That was a beautiful ending.
Hello @yaziris ! I like that you have identified Schrödinger's Paradox. It is a postulate that makes think the physical away from the static idea of physical laws.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination surrounds the world".
I am no one to criticize Einstein, but this phrase that opposes imagination and knowledge does not really seem correct to me. No one can imagine what he does not know, only from a certain knowledge we can imagine. The opposite is also true, without imagination there is no knowledge. So these two manifestations for me are complementary and cannot be opposed.
Thanks for the attentive reading and for the generous comment, @yaziris
I actually agree with you about the complimentary relationship between imagination and knowledge, their "opposition" is more like the Yin and Yang if anything.
To defend Einstein's point of view a little, however, we have to keep in mind the field he was indulged in, and the very knowledgeable people he was running against. I believe that's what he said after he proved his -preposterous at the time- ideas, and very imaginative view to be correct.
It was his way to express his triumph over his peers who were considered more knowledgeable than him.