December 11, 2005
Sudoku, Cosmology, and Theosis
They say it is addictive. I didn't try it until a few weeks ago. It hasn't become a compulsion yet, but now Mrs H has picked it up.
Sudoku is a very simple puzzle format. A 9x9 grid of 81 square divided into nine 3x3 grids. Digits 1-9. The goal is to put the numbers in the boxes so that every row and column has each digit and every mini-grid has each digit. Couldn't be simpler. Couldn't be more difficult. Mathematicians have calculated that there are 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 (that's over 6.6 sextillion for those who do better translating numbers into words) possible solutions to the 9x9 grid. The puzzle is set up when most of the numbers are removed from a solution grid.
On the Web Sudoku site, the average time for solving an easy puzzle is 7 minutes 42 seconds. I have gotten my time to usually under 10 minutes. I haven't even attempted anything rated more difficult.
The universe is like a giant sudoku puzzle. The grid is just a bit bigger than 9x9. That is why science will never have it figured out. (In fact, give mathematicians a 16x16 grid, and they cannot calculate the number of possible solutions.) They've been given just enough numbers to keep them working at it, because cosmologically there is only one answer.
Scientists have done everything from denying the grid exists to changing the given numbers in an attempt to rule out meaning and purpose. The do not want to be foiled by the simplest argument in the apologist's arsenal, that the existence of a watch necessarily leads to the existence of the watchmaker.
And is it too Calvinistic to say that our lives are like sudoku grids as well? Think of them as mini-grids in the fabric of time and space - a small part of the big plan. God gives a lot of the numbers we need, and knows all of the numbers and where they go, but we have to fill it in. And there's no penalty for looking in the hint book.
We spend our lives facing problems and developing solutions. That we don't solve them all doesn't undermine the underlying perfection of the grid. We'll see the grand solution at the Final Day. I'm sure we will be in for some surprises as we discover that, like cosmologists, we have tried to change the some of the givens to suit ourselves. This is probably one of the reasons we can't get the puzzle solved before our time runs out.
Posted by david at December 11, 2005 01:34 PMDoomHamster is addicted to Sudoku, and she is pretty good at them. I can`t do them to save my life.........
BTW, Happy Name Day to your Abby....we celebrated ours today. Many years to Abby !!
How strange. I was thinking of something similar just yesterday, although I am too helpless at math to do Sudoku. Actually, I was taking a shower (often too complex for me too) and wondering how we could tell the difference between chaos and an order of complexity too great for the human brain to process. I don't suppose we could. How could we even know the difference? Hmm.
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