The 10th Dimension
I tried to walk my wife through the last post and she smiled in her cute way and politely stated that this kind of stuff is beyond her. That’s cool – maybe it’s way beyond me as well. I write these kinds of posts late at night after a few wines so maybe they are in the realm of la la land.
Then again, maybe they’re not. I was listening to the sound track of The Animatrix I was writing that last night and felt quite inspired by the soft drum and bass/electronic vibe of the music – not to mention the entire content of the film.
If you bothered watching the video’s, the closing statements in the second go along the lines of this:
Super strings vibrating in the 10th dimension are what make up our sub-atomic particles in our universe. Therefore all possibilities are contained within the 10th dimension.
How do you feel about this reality? A scientist would be tripping out with mind boggling possibilities. A Christian would instantly think “God”.
You’ve probably heard the question, “if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it fall, did it make a sound?” Well quantum physics says that if no-one was observing that tree, then it didn’t exist in the first place. Confusing? I agree. Some scientists have committed suicide as they grappled with the reality of quantum physics. This science has literally discovered the edge of reality.
As confusing as it may seem, it is also completely predictable. The fact that you are sitting there and reading this post right now was made available with technology derived from quantum physics. In their pursuit to make computers even faster, tech geek’s are now looking at Quantum Computers to dramatically increase the power of computers.
But what does all this have to do with the way I ended my last post? Let’s have a look at Psalm 2 again..
“Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”
OK here is my stab at this passage. It could be way off the mark, but I need to nut it out. Here we have mankind declaring war on God. In my understanding of history, I don’t think this has happened yet!
The setting is one of rage against God and a plot is birth to achieve a very specific aim – to “burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” In light of what we have talked about, I find this very interesting. Man will aim to “burst their bonds” and “cast away their cords” – hmmm sounds like super string theory to me.
Super string theory is the latest thinking in theoretical physics – the aim to get that all elusive “theory that binds all the laws of the universe together.” My prediction is that science will discover the reality of God very soon. When it does, a fallen and depraved mankind will freak at the notion that we are controlled by a higher power than ourselves. Little do they understand that this “higher power” has given us a free will.
The Good Book says that in Christ, all things are held together. I strongly believe that this includes our “reality” as much as our “theology.” If you look at a nuclei and observe the protons and electrons spinning around it like crazy, the force keeping those protons and electrons in orbit is mind boggling and scientists haven’t really nailed the origin of that force. Yet it’s this force that makes things solid in our dimension. The fact that your fingers can type on a keyboard comes from the atomic binding of your skin clashing with the atomic binding of your keyboard.
And yet the space between the nuclei and the proton and electrons is vast. A good analogy is if you were a nuclei and you were standing in the middle of a football field, your protons and electrons would be spinning around the boundary lines. Mind you, you are a speck and so are your protons and electrons. So in reality, your physical mass is nothing at all. It’s the energy binding you to your protons and electrons which makes you solid.
I believe this “energy” is Christ holding all things together. The Creator God in a dimension so far beyond our ability to comprehend – the Bible calls this eternity – playing on those super strings and holding together the reality of mankind in the palm of His hand. When you look at it this way, Jesus’ ability to perform miracles becomes a scientific reality and completely “do-able.”
It staggers me to think that mankind will one day declare war against God. But I laugh with God at His response..
He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision. Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.
I can almost imagine God bursting into laughter as He looks at mankind. Then as His laughter subsides and turns into wrath, He utters..”But Jesus.”
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very interesting.
I have not heard anyone say science will discover God. But that just makes it more fun to think about, a brand new thought. In the book (that turned out being the answer to my comment) Brave New World (written in 1938) there is a conversation about guys among a couple of the leaders. And in this scenario it is not a denying of God but rather “yes he does exist” but “we no longer have need for him”… so they buried books and all references and conditioned people to have no thought of God. I would pull out direct quotes, but I’m tired. As a society they pretty much took the place of God, they replaced parents and raised children pre-determined in a lab and with sleep hypnotism. They did all they could to eliminate pain, sickness and disease from society…. really interesting parallels all throughout the book.
I will have to think on the verses though.
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Zabs,
The Kaballah Jewelry thing is out of my control! I wish I had a bit more control over what is on my site with the adds but I don’t unfortunately. I monetize my blog to break even and cover costs – even though i fall way short.
About science discovering God. When Jesus said that if we had the faith the size of a mustard seed, we could move mountains into the sea, many Christians have reduced the mountains to the “mountains in our life.”
But my take on this is that we have the ability to alter matter the way Jesus did – through faith. We are fallen creatures – but inspired by Christ to be redeemed. Scientists have said that we use 1/10 of 1% of our brain’s capacity – an extremely small mustard seed indeed.
And yet our Creator Jesus said that if our faith was the size of a mustard seed – ie a little bigger then 1/10 of 1% we could alter space time – in effect moving a mountain into the sea, I believe “faith” is redeeming back to God that 99.9/10’s of our mind’s capacity to function.
Here’s a question to you. What does “righteousness” mean? Or what does “holy” mean? To me, Abraham was declared “righteous” when he believed something his 5 senses couldn’t perceive. It had nothing to do with morality – but more mindset despite reason. Evidently, God admires this attribute in humans.
And holiness has nothing to do with wearing your Sunday best to Church. Rather holiness means means “separated” or “distinct” from the rest. This is where God resides as He alone is beyond anything else. No wonder the angels cry out Holy, Holy, Holy!
In effect, they cry out, “you are so distinct from anything else in all of reality – you are unique and separated from anything else there is.” And they do this 3 times over in an attempt to emphasise that God is unique.
But man has warped holiness into pathetic ritual which really means nothing at all. My God is a Being beyond human perception.
“For this is what the high and lofty One says— He who lives forever, whose name is holy:
“I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.” Isaiah 57:15″
This high and lofty place is what I believe science will one day discover – not understand – but discover. I get my authority through this scripture regarding the time of the Tower of Babel:
“But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
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Just saw that you had commented back, sorry about that!
I see where you are coming from and it makes perfect sense. That is a great application of the tower of bable. I have often wondered about that.
I also agree with the mustard seed analogy. I long to have that faith of a mustard seed and work toward it!
Holiness- absolutely.
Oh and you asked a quesiton… righteousness.
) I think many will be surprised that it wasn’t about how it looked to others or what they did… but their motives, their thought life, the goals, their relationship with him….
Well simply “right standing with God” but I suppose many would interpert that differently. People make it complicated when really it is about dicoutinuing walking away from Jesus and walking toward him. Accepting and believing in faith in such a way that it changes the things we do, the way we act. We have a new litmus for right and wrong. And in all that I do not mean in a legalistic way, but rather a heart condition. Obviously we are imperfect, we have blind spots, at times we sin without even realizing it… but it is the heart set on God that once realizing a sin repents and changes. God is all about our heart… having US… on judgement day (what ever that is or whatever deminsion that is in
That all probably isn’t super eloquent… my brain is fried and i have a lot left to do.
I agree with your defn. of righteousness as well though. I think our eyes are to be fixed on him whether it is reasonable or seems to defy reason for sure.
God bless. Have fun with your (cute smile) wife and with your little ones! Too bad we all can’t have you guys over for a cookout and discuss all these types of things.