I ended my last post with a question: There may exist some forms of energy that cannot interact with light and hence are invisible, but they are able to influence us, interact with us and guide us and they are constantly near us, seeing us, and may be even controlling us, but we never get to know! But surprisingly, we do have a name for such kind of energies! What is it?
Let me give you the answer: God! Many of you would think: This is a science blog. Then why are we becoming philosophical? Well, Science does support the existence of God. What matters is how you define God! I define God as the creator of "our" universe, creator of everything we know about, and some things we are yet to discover.
Often people assume scientists to be atheist. While that may occasionally be true, but it is majorly a myth. "http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/sciencefaith.html" gives you a list of 13 GREAT scientists who believed in God. Give it a thought, all that has happened to make us possible: big bang, formation of Earth as a planet, most suitable distance from the Sun to allow us to survive, a moon to protect us from asteroids, evolution, etc. how can it all just be a coincidence? I fail to believe that there was no driving force behind all this!
Very interesting indeed it is to know how scientists used the fact that God exists, to make scientific breakthroughs. Albert Einstein said that he always wanted to know how God made this Universe. While speculating a theory of his, he would often imagine himself as God and think, "If I was God, would I impart such a feature in my Universe?" And whenever he realised that the concept was too complex and God would never have used such irrational and unsymmetrical concepts, he discarded the concept.
Evidently, the way I define God did give me a way, rather unconventional, to define us, our universe and our existence. How many of you have heard of those virtual reality games? Wikipedia defines virtual reality (VR) as a computer-simulated environment that can simulate presence in real or imaginary worlds. Meaning to say, that you have a virtual identity, a virtual character, and you live in a virtual world with other virtual beings.
You can control your character, make him do things, and watch him constantly. Now, imagine if that character inside the computer somehow gets to know that there is someone outside his world, who is controlling his actions, making him do things and watching him constantly. What do you think the character will call that someone? GOD!
On considering the above statement, you might have already got my point. God may be a higher dimensional being, and by higher dimensional I mean of greater dimensions than just 3 of them, who made this extremely advanced virtual reality game, called the Universe. He is able to control us, manipulate us, guide us, and constantly watch us, but He cannot physically interact with us, just like we cannot physically interact with a character inside a computer game.
Upon thinking, you will get more analogs and relations. Like a new character is born whenever a new user signs up, similarly, may be a new Universe is born whenever a new higher dimensional being makes His own computer game. This is exactly what Multiverse is, multiple universes existing simultaneously. Then what are Black Holes? Black Hole may very well represent the universes which are dead, or in other words, the higher dimensional beings who signed off or stopped playing.
It may seem too unconventional and insane to even consider this thought, but the concept has some scientific basis. The String Theory has a principle called the Holographic Principle which suggests that the Universe can be seen as a 2-D Hologram.
The virtual world we play in in computer games is itself two dimensional but it appears to be 3 Dimensional, much like what the Holographic Principle tells us about our existence. Hence, the idea may not be entirely gross!
In conclusion, I would like to say that may be we will never be able to know who created us. Our lives are way too short to decipher the mysteries of the entire universe. In this post, I tried to present an idea which can define our existence. But wait, even if God created us in the form of a computer game, how did it all start? How did our universe come into existence? Scientists give an answer: the Big Bang. We all know what happened after the Big Bang, but WHY did the Big Bang happen? We will see in the next post!
P.S. - I am not trying to hurt any religious sentiments. Like all religious people, I too believe in God and I am just trying to present an idea that came upon my mind. So, take it easy!
Let me give you the answer: God! Many of you would think: This is a science blog. Then why are we becoming philosophical? Well, Science does support the existence of God. What matters is how you define God! I define God as the creator of "our" universe, creator of everything we know about, and some things we are yet to discover.
Often people assume scientists to be atheist. While that may occasionally be true, but it is majorly a myth. "http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/sciencefaith.html" gives you a list of 13 GREAT scientists who believed in God. Give it a thought, all that has happened to make us possible: big bang, formation of Earth as a planet, most suitable distance from the Sun to allow us to survive, a moon to protect us from asteroids, evolution, etc. how can it all just be a coincidence? I fail to believe that there was no driving force behind all this!
Very interesting indeed it is to know how scientists used the fact that God exists, to make scientific breakthroughs. Albert Einstein said that he always wanted to know how God made this Universe. While speculating a theory of his, he would often imagine himself as God and think, "If I was God, would I impart such a feature in my Universe?" And whenever he realised that the concept was too complex and God would never have used such irrational and unsymmetrical concepts, he discarded the concept.
Evidently, the way I define God did give me a way, rather unconventional, to define us, our universe and our existence. How many of you have heard of those virtual reality games? Wikipedia defines virtual reality (VR) as a computer-simulated environment that can simulate presence in real or imaginary worlds. Meaning to say, that you have a virtual identity, a virtual character, and you live in a virtual world with other virtual beings.
You can control your character, make him do things, and watch him constantly. Now, imagine if that character inside the computer somehow gets to know that there is someone outside his world, who is controlling his actions, making him do things and watching him constantly. What do you think the character will call that someone? GOD!
On considering the above statement, you might have already got my point. God may be a higher dimensional being, and by higher dimensional I mean of greater dimensions than just 3 of them, who made this extremely advanced virtual reality game, called the Universe. He is able to control us, manipulate us, guide us, and constantly watch us, but He cannot physically interact with us, just like we cannot physically interact with a character inside a computer game.
Upon thinking, you will get more analogs and relations. Like a new character is born whenever a new user signs up, similarly, may be a new Universe is born whenever a new higher dimensional being makes His own computer game. This is exactly what Multiverse is, multiple universes existing simultaneously. Then what are Black Holes? Black Hole may very well represent the universes which are dead, or in other words, the higher dimensional beings who signed off or stopped playing.
It may seem too unconventional and insane to even consider this thought, but the concept has some scientific basis. The String Theory has a principle called the Holographic Principle which suggests that the Universe can be seen as a 2-D Hologram.
The virtual world we play in in computer games is itself two dimensional but it appears to be 3 Dimensional, much like what the Holographic Principle tells us about our existence. Hence, the idea may not be entirely gross!
In conclusion, I would like to say that may be we will never be able to know who created us. Our lives are way too short to decipher the mysteries of the entire universe. In this post, I tried to present an idea which can define our existence. But wait, even if God created us in the form of a computer game, how did it all start? How did our universe come into existence? Scientists give an answer: the Big Bang. We all know what happened after the Big Bang, but WHY did the Big Bang happen? We will see in the next post!
P.S. - I am not trying to hurt any religious sentiments. Like all religious people, I too believe in God and I am just trying to present an idea that came upon my mind. So, take it easy!
