What Science Has To Say About God

            We live in a world that we believe we understand.  We say that matter can exist only in one place at a time.  We take that for granted.  Matter is also solid, right?  Or maybe it is liquid or gaseous.  Maybe we understand that it is made up of atoms and molecules. 

            Maybe we believe that atoms have a nucleus and that electrons orbit it, just like we were taught in high school science.  Maybe we think that matter and energy exist independent of our observations, that something exists even when we are not looking at it.  This is common to all people.  These things seem to be obvious.

            We take for granted that gravity is a force that pulls us down.  (How often has N.A.S.A. defined gravity as a force that pulls us down?  Have we not been taught this from birth?)

            We also tend to believe that time and space are separate things.  We believe that time is always the same no matter where in the Universe we look.  It would pass at the same rate under all circumstances and that a second, on Earth, is the exact same second everywhere else.  We also believe, commonly, that space is a constant.  That is, a mile on Earth is the same distance as a mile somewhere else.  Time and space seem to be, to us, immutable and unchanging.  They are backdrops in front of which all things happen.    It is upon these assumptions that we base our feelings about God.  We ask, “How old is God?”  “Where is he?”  “How does he travel?”  This is because we are inside space and time and look at things from that perspective.

            Now let me lay a bombshell on you.  Those who study atoms, molecules and time and space show that all of these assumptions about physical matter, time and space, are WRONG!.

            Let me say it again.  They are false assumptions and are proven to be wrong.  Matter and energy are the same thing.  Time and space are not separate entities.  They are not constant.  A mile here on Earth is not the same distance as the same measured mile somewhere else in the Universe.  Time does not flow at the same rate everywhere.  A second passing in one part of the Universe might occur at the same time a billion years passes here on Earth. 

            Surprising?  You bet.  But Albert Einstein, the most credible and famous scientific genius in the world, established these facts at the beginning of the 20th century, over one hundred years ago!  He found out that  (In fact, this might embarrass you, but the knowledge you gained from your high school geometry class is the first thing Einstein attacks in his book on his theory of relativity over 100 years ago!  He considers it all tto be completly false!)

            1: Time and space are the same thing. Time and space warp in the presence of matter and the measurement of them changes when you accelerate any object. Gravity is a warping of time and space, it is NOT a force that pulls you down.  The speed of light (although he originally proposed it to begin with) is NOT the ultimate speed in the Universe.  Contrary to his own previous thoughts, he had to agree that information can travel faster than light even without a signal to move the information from her to there.  It can be transmitted instantaneously from here to the other side of the Universe.

            Other modern scientists prove that:

            2: Nothing is solid.  All matter is nothing but empty space, (99.99 percent) held together by magnetic force. 

            3: Matter, at the subatomic level, is always in more places at once.  In fact, a photon (a particle of light) can be everywhere within a sphere a billion light years across, all at the same time.  This is called the “superposition” for it can not only exist in many places at once but also in different physical states that are contrary to each other simultaneously.

            4: You can change the past by what you do in the present.  This is surprising to some but it is very simple and quantum physicists can do it any time they want to as many times as they want to.  You can determine if light traveled from a distant start to the Earth over the last 10 billion years as a wave or a particle simply by testing whether the light received arrived as a particle or as a wave.  You do this by making a decision as to how to measure it.  This forces the light to be, in the past, what you cause it to become by observation, today.  But other experiments expand on this and bring out the true nature of time so that changing the past is doable in other ways.

            5: All matter behaves as light does in that it is both made up of particles, when we want to detect it as particles, or waves, when we want to detect it as waves.  In fact, until we decide what we want it to be it has properties of neither.  It doesn’t even exist without observation (Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics as it is commonly trusted.)  The mere observation of light and matter causes it to be defined as one or the other, for they can not exist in both, diametrically opposite states simultaneously. 

            I can go on and on.  Did you know that reality is only how you experience your surroundings?  You don’t see your desk as energy and empty space, do you?  You see it with its color. You feel its texture.  You think you see it across the room and you can measure its distance.  But remember.  It is nothing but pure energy.  Its waves affect your eyes so your brain receives signals which interpret the desk as being there.  You, as an observer, are presented with the information by your brain.  You experience the desk.  The desk is in your mind as a desk.  In “reality” it is energy and space and is made up of the same “stuff” as air, and water and the stars and fire and heat and light.  It exists because you experience it.  The same goes with distance.  It is “over there” because your mind accepts it as being “over there” when actually the image and other sensual input are only in your mind.  (For this reason we can hallucinate and see optical illusions and believe what we see is real but it is not.)  So things are real when you observe them and only as real as your brain tells you that they are or your mind discerns that they are despite what you see, hear, touch, taste and smell.

             So we talk about everything is made out of energy?  What’s that?  It can’t be defined except with the word “quantum” (plural) which means a “quantities of something.”  “Something” is not defined as anything in scientific terms.  It is indefinable.

            Quantum can go both forward and backward in time.  Quantum can be in many places at the same time.  Quantum do not follow any of the laws of physics.  Time and chance and illogical things that defy our understanding of nature are commonplace in the world of quantum.  It’s not like you can treat it like a pool table ball where you can strike it with another ball and it deflects at a predictable speed and angle.  You try that with quantum (as if it were an electron) and you have no idea at what speed or at what angle it will be deflected.  You try to define it as being a particle and, lo and behold, it insists on creating interference patterns as if it were a wave, though you know it can only be a particle as you are testing it.  Yet the results are mystifying.

            .  If you want to ask the questions about God you will have to first know what is a proper question  When you ask “How old is God?” you must ask if time has any existence of itself or you must define that which can not be defined.  If you ask, “Where is he?” you must first define what space isn’t.

            The fact is, time and space are spoken of but time doesn’t move when you are near the surface of a black hole.  No space exists there either because both are infinitely warped.  You can’t say something is solid because it is solid only in your mind, as you perceive it and define it.  In reality it is space held together by “magnetism” which is, in itself, basically undefinable. 

            So scientists say we live in a poetic world where everything is described as “particles” and “waves” and “atoms’ and “electrons” but these are just poetic words.  A “particle,” in quantum physics, has no size.  A “wave” has no medium to wave in.  A “solid” has nothing solid in it.  “Space” and “time” can not exist because of what is called “action at a distance” where you can affect something at the other side of the Universe instantaneously from right here on Earth. 

            So let us ask about God in light of modern science and not by old fashioned ignorance.  God has no age and he has existed as long as his Universe’s age whatever we determine that to be.  He is everywhere at once, just like a photon can be, and he can be located wherever you decide that he is for no matter where you point, he is there.

            Now here is the conclusion.  In order for any quantum to be defined as existing to begin with, it must be observed. (This is called the “problem of observation” in scientific terms and is well established in science.)  So the conclusion must be that if God isn’t observing us, do we exist at all?  It was with his thought that we are created and we, with our thoughts, decide, by observation, what is real and what is not.  We are, indeed, made in God’s image, with his likeness.  He has imbued us with part of his very nature for we are made of him.  Do not think in terms of “matter and energy.”  Think “we are made of God.”  For time, space, matter and energy are what we make of it through observation and experiment and that is ever shifting.  Also, consider this:  If we, by observatoin can force a bit of light to take the form of a particle, or take the form of a wave, are we not taking part in creating that particle or wave?  This is another aspect of being in the "image of God."

            Any question?  Research quantum physics, not for answers, but to explore why these things can’t be answered.  You will find that there is nothing chaos in the quantum world and contradiction.  The only reality that is sure to be reality is God.