This post is part of the January 30th God or Not blog carnival based on the topic of the Definition of God to be held at the Uncredible Hallq.
In his Miracle Year of 1905, Albert Einstein proved the existence of God and thereby defined God. We’re all familiar with Einstein’s e=mc2 (energy equals mass times the speed of light squared) equation. However what most people don’t know is that originally Einstein wasn’t solving for “e”, he was solving for “m” so his original equation was m=e/c2 (mass equals energy divided by the speed of light squared). So what, what’s the difference? With the first equation we learn how to get energy out of mass which has led, for example, to the fission of atoms and getting energy (the atomic bomb and nuclear energy). But in the second equation we learn how mass is created by energy and that, for example, the energy generated by the blastoff of the space shuttle adds mass the weight of a flee to the shuttle. (For more authority on this idea listen to Frank Wilczek, Theoretical Physicist and Nobel Laureate at MIT, Sheldon Glashow, Theoretical Physicist and Nobel Laureate at Boston University and Albert himself!). It takes a tremendous amount of energy to create mass. So what would we call the energy that would be large enough, powerful enough and pervasive enough to create the solar system, the planets, the stars, the sun, you, me and everything on earth…come on…that’s right…say it with me…GOD! God is Energy.
This Energy has a certain quality that humanity has sort of been familiar with. Energy is abstract and we’ve been able to identify and work with this abstraction. For example Beethoven worked with joy when he composed Ode to Joy and when we listen to it we’re able to sense it. We can sense, or better yet, “intuit”, other divine energies such as the serenity in nature, the beauty in a rose, the freedom in the spirit of America, the compassion of a good teacher or the strength in a mountain range. So what would we call the quality of the Energy that put Itself forth and invested the effort to create and sustain every part of world, that developed a Divine Plan and that has the deep patience to allow the Plan to unfold over countless millennia and that, as Paul said, always protects, always hopes, always perseveres and never fails…come on…that’s right…say it with me…LOVE! God is Love.
As hinted at above God’s Energy has been fragmented into smaller bits of energy that we call joy, love, beauty, peace, compassion, wisdom, harmony, goodwill and strength. But is has also been fragmented into an energy that created you and me. This is a special energy because unlike all the other creations in the world this energy has allowed us to develop to the point of becoming self-aware. So what de we call the energy that’s “behind us”, that created and sustains us, that allows us to identify, contemplate and work with abstract concepts and that connects us to all…come on…that’s right…say it with me…the SOUL! We are divine selves that were made in God’s image.
Einstein proved that energy and matter are interchangeable, in other words they are one or whole. God and all things of this universe are interchangeable, in other words they are one or whole. Our divine self and our human self are interchangeable, in other words they are one or whole (a person who has learned to act as this integrated self is called “holy”). God and the soul are creative, loving, abstract energies that invested themselves into creating and sustaining you, me and the world.
Einstein is famous for saying, “I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details.” God is Energy. God is Love. My hope is that you, in your attempt to define and understand God, have a revelation and reaction like Einstein when he solved his theory of special relativity and the next day went to is friend Michele Besso’s home and, without even saying hello, blurted out, “Thank you, I’ve completely solved the problem.”
Cheers,
Brendan
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Have you seen god? Has anyone in the world seen god? Why would god let priest(words from god) to molest boys? Can you talk with god? no such thing exist. God is made up to keep our sanity. Something to keep believing in.
Einstein’s understanding that the universe is very organized is consistent with the existence of a supreme being (God).
It is sad, Sean, that you say such things. I highly doubt that you are educated enough to make any kind of statement regarding religion period. Brilliant men have been arguing for thousands of years over what you just summed up in one sentence. Unfortunately, the more science has tried to prove that there is no God the more they have proved that there is one. There are things that happen in this life that simply cannot be explained through science and reason.
Brendan, maybe you would appreciate my work at http://eucharist-emc2.blogspot.com … maybe not.
God who is pure act, and constant, and one in being is Divine Action and as the Greeks termed it energeia.
The trick comes when we have to decide the ontological difference between the Almighty Creator and His very dependent creation, the former is ABSOLUTE and the later is RELATIVE.
This is the problem in this age of the “dictatorship of relativism.”
God bless your work.
I’ve got my own ideas. Gravity is said to be nearly instant in action regardless of the distance. It’s speed is immeasurable because our instruments cannot keep up.
The idea that gravity may be instantaneous has many implications.
I’ve put quite a bit of thought into it and the idea correlates with certain anomalies such as entangled particles and the observer effect. If entangled particles can be separated by any distance, and can still communicate state and spin with no delay, then it should also be possible to at the very least, communicate voice and data wirelessly and the devices using this connection will be the bottlenecks instead of the “pipe” if you will. Gravity’s infinite speed is also consistent with the idea that there is a ground state, or zero-point energy that we are all bathed in, including the rest of the universe. The mere fact that gravity can go faster than the speed of light -many other postulations and theory are based on the speed of light!- gives science a clue to what we cannot yet see or agree on, which is the unknown. Isn’t it the role of science to uncover the unknown? Most of science’s firm laws and logic that deny or preclude the existance of the phenomena I describe will not last. These rules shall be broken in time by these new discoveries and many more we haven’t uncovered, and there will be a great deal of debate about it along the way. But there will be many benefits in discovery and progress with technology on a staggering level. It’s already begun.
My personal take on a Theory of Everything is that there is a single field of energy, interconnected over vast distance and able to communicate with any other part of the universe. This energy is the culmination of all things, places, and times and gives rise to us all. We feel it directly in the observed forward dimension of time which biases our outlook on what is actually taking place. The universe is in a state of creation of subatomic particles, but what we sometimes don’t realize is that those particles aren’t even solid. Everything is made from an energetic field or energy which has unlimited potential and probability.
An explanation of the universe in a unified theory may include the following:
1) Every point in space is connected by at least one field called gravity, therefore every “particle” or wave that it is made from knows where the others are and the state they are in, supporting the idea of an infinite amount of information being transmitted. We see this action as gravity, but the actual function communicates interactions between our physical universe’s constituant components and it is instant in action. There is no other way for the universe to maintain order without this information.
2) The physical universe as we know it is a construct supported on a framework of that information, which is what creates what we believe to be physically there. In other words, matter is a property of that information, as are waves of any kind.
3) The “ether” or zero-point energy or cosmic flux is another property of the information, and can be described best as unfocused potential, but it is also responsible for all energetic reactions occuring in the universe.
The sheer scale of how much of the universe is actually empty space is astonishing, yet even that emptiness holds surprises. Harnessing the apparent power and performance of the “backdoor to the universe” could possibly hold the keys to practical use of instantaneous travel and communications as well as provide an interesting alternative to replication, or creation of items seemingly from out of the air, instead of using advanced molecular assemblers. Force fields will also be a reality, and will be nothing more than a computer-generated signal with the proper information about where and what should be generated by the field. Replicator, transporter, and communications devices will in fact be one device. The device will be able to perform all of these tasks if we tap the potential that exists under our noses. This can be done through the combination of the universal flux of energy creating on a subatomic level, the power contained within that flux, and of course the infinite potential of the speed of gravity and my example of entangled particles as a possible means to communicate the “program.”
Going even further, we could also toss consiousness into the equation along with experience. What if the information the universe is made up of also has the potential of experience? Call it God, call it universal Consiousness, call it Fate. You can also call it The Force, Chi, Manna, Spirituality, and Time. Now we have an explanation for any odd occurances, results, and coincidances because time and space are irrelevant to the universe. Just like the instant effects of certain events regardless of space, those effects must be measurable outside of time as well. What we observe from Earth is an effect of finite lifespans (perception of time) and limitations or properties of what the information generates as physical to us. With the infinite information flowing between all particles in the universe in what we call gravity, the possibility of all events and objects being broadcast the same way from one source does not seem so far fetched, in fact it unifies all events and objects as a whole system.
In essence, there is only ONE, be it God or something that we named so.
hi Brendan and all, I had stumbled across this post in September when I had been thinking the EXACT same things (god=love=energy). I especially agree with ZeusEnergy in his comments. That was the scientific and philosophical definition that I had been seeking but could not put into words! I have a posting on my blog that I thought you might want to read:
http://godloveenergy.blogspot.com
Cheers!
In regards to the existence or not of a ’supreme being’, I have only this to say. The one that exists in my world, not only guides and directs my life on a daily basis, but ‘He’ also sent down His only natural born Son named Jesus Christ to free me from all my guilt and shame(sins). I have His promises of His future return to rule His creation ‘Earth’, which gives me hope. And hope is something that no non-believing person can truly give to you. That God is real, no one can deny to me!
The existence of a god has eluded me for many years: mostly because of the “Good vs Bad” thing expounded by all religions. My question has always been this, If God is the creator of all things, then God created “Bad”(or evil if you will), embodied by God’s creation of Satan. In short, “If God is perfect and he created me, then I must be perfect too because perfect can not create something imperfect. This is obviously not the case therefore, there is no God and I was not created by God.
I have now however realised that God is in fact energy and that is “the Truth” that has been realised by every prophet in every religion. Unfortunately, (and I’m really struggling here) this is a very difficult message to put into a cogent philosophy without drawing upon analogies to explain it in words. Energy is neither good nor bad it just “Is”. We can not see it but we know it exists because we can experience it’s effects as Light, Heat, Sound and Motion. Everything that exists is pure energy and nothing else but energy exists. Everything we experience, see, touch and hear are merely the effects of energy. I feel as though I’m rambling now…
I just happy to realise that I now have the answer.
Kevin, first of all you need to belive in God to understand Him. Yes “perfect creates perfect”. But can’t perfect turn perfect into imperfect?
@Kevin and @John I posed a similar question at a forum of Carl Japike’s at Light. I highly recommend reading it and checking out his books particularly the Art of Living and Life of Spirit essays. Did God create evil?
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