An Open Mind, 075

The Bible starts with the words “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth”, (Genesis 1:1) and the last chapter of Revelations includes “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.” (Revelations 22:13). Time is a central theme of the scriptures. To give perspective of looking at time from outside an earthly perspective, Psalms 90:4 says “For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.” 2 Peter 3:8 expands on this to teach “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” Time and space are throughout Christian scriptures, with most references pointing to the limited time which a man or a woman spend living and experiencing life on planet Earth. For instance, Job teaches us there is “an appointed time to man.”^2.47

Christian scriptures take the relationship of time and space farther than science, by describing when both sides of the equation will end. To men and women of faith, a more proper perspective of time and space will become self-evident when “the earth is rolled as a scroll and all things are revealed.” Isaiah 34:4 teaches us “And all the hosts of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their hosts shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.” Revelations 6:14 teaches us “And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their place.” The end of time is illustrated in Revelations 10:5-6, which teaches us “And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer.” These concepts are like the quantum physics of religion.

Time and space are the central themes of quantum physics. This is highlighted in Einstein’s famous equation E=MC², where E is energy, M is mass (or a property of a physical object which takes up space), and where C is the speed of light, a derivative of time. General relativity, as summarized in the above equation, is mainly based on the force of gravity.^2.48 Quantum Mechanics adds the other three fundamental forces physicists have identified,^2.49 namely: the strong force, which represents the interactions between quarks and gluons;^2.50 the weak force, which has a field strength 10¹³ times less than the strong force and whose most familiar effect is beta decay;^2.51 and the electromagnetic field, a field encompassing all of space and which exerts a force on those particles which have an electric charge.^2.52 In addition, dark matter has been proposed by astronomers as a fifth essence, which helps explain several anomalous astronomical observations, such as anomalies in the rotational speed of galaxies. Estimates of the amount of matter present in galaxies, based on gravitational effects, consistently suggest that there is far more matter than is directly observable, and dark matter resolves inconsistencies in the Big Bang Theory.^2.53

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