Yep, that's what I meant to say

I have been interested in science fiction since I was a young kid. In high school I took advanced calculus, physics and chemistry. Then I got into college and pursued film and other creative endeavors. But those original interests have never really waned.

One specific topic has always been of special significance to me - the issues relating to time travel and our perception/relationship with time. Trying to negotiate between my perception of time and my unwavering belief in Judaism has sometimes caused problems. However, I do not believe there is any contradiction between science and religion. NONE.

How can we have free will if G-d knows the future? What good does prayer do if everything is already "written?" How do corporeal beings with beginnings and ends relate, communicate with and perceive the Infinite?

I just came across an archive of articles by one of those super physics geniuses who also happens to be an observant Jew. Here is just one small excerpt, about what it means to be beings bound by time relating to the unbounded Almighty. It is something I have come close to explaining myself but he says it much better:

If God is omniscient and knows the future, how can we have free will?

God knows the end already. God knows the future, but not as a future. Having created time, God is outside of time. In such a dimension, future, past and present are meaningless. They are all simultaneous. The four-lettered Hebrew name of God, Y/H/V/H, is composed of the letters that spell in Hebrew "I was, I am, I will be." The three tenses fold into one eternal "now."

We, however, live in time. So for us, the future has not yet occurred.

Nature gives a hint of what it means to be outside of time. The laws of relativity have shown us that at the speed of light, time stands still.

To our perception, light travels for eight minutes as it moves from sun to Earth. But if we could move along with the light in its journey, we would record that zero time passed during the flight from sun to Earth.

Here on Earth, being inside of time, those eight minutes afford us the opportunity to choose among a variety of activities. Yet their beginnings and endings would appear as occurring simultaneously from the perspective of the light.

In this sense, although totally outside of human experience and so difficult to comprehend, God knows the ending even at the beginning.

Read more articles on science and Judaism by Dr. Gerald Schroeder.

A bit about the good doctor:
Gerald Schroeder earned his BSc, MSc and PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of GENESIS AND THE BIG BANG, the discovery of harmony between modern science and the Bible, published by Bantam Doubleday; now in seven languages; and THE SCIENCE OF GOD, published by Free Press of Simon & Schuster, and THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD, also published by Free Press of Simon & Schuster. He teaches at Aish HaTorah College of Jewish Studies (in Israel).