​​​​​​​​Introduction

The weird (but undoubtedly proven) concepts of quantum mechanics (QM), i.e., the science of the very small, microscopic world of elementary particles, has always mystified me as well as any other scientist that tries to understand that world. However, in my case, I find I ask the question ‘why would God provide such a mysterious world at the microscopic level that is so ‘deliberately’ counter-intuitive to our experience at the macroscopic level that we all effectively live within?’. Surely there must be a divine reason behind this strange aspect of creation.

This link:  https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221003-why-does-time-go-forwards-not-backwards, completely rekindled my interest in the topic of QM and therefore this attempt to rationalise why God created the universe as He has at all size levels.

However, part-way through my research on this overall topic, I stumble across something that changes the whole intent and direction of this paper with some truly mind-bending concepts based on some work that began more than two decades prior to my writing this paper. You’d think I would be getting used to this by now! Strap yourself in; it’s going to be a roller-coaster ride!
 

Time Goes Forward?

Let me pick the bones out of the above link to demonstrate the elements that drew my interest:

1. Newton’s Laws of Motion apparently do not take account of the direction of the flow of time. This also seems to be the case for all the classical and quantum laws of physics; they all seem to work regardless of the direction of time. They could account perfectly well for everything we know going backwards in time. Weird huh? I have to confess that, as a science graduate, this is a factor that, until this very moment, had not occurred to me; equally one would have thought that some scientific source would have made me aware of this rather large elephant in the room! Time is a very strange thing anyway; this aspect has just made it even stranger in my eyes. This particularly since I have only recently (last 3-4 years) published my paper on Time, so this topic is still reasonably fresh in my mind.
2. It appears that the only law of physics that has a familiar and clear forward direction of time is the second law of thermodynamics. This dictates that the level of chaos in the universe can only get larger. Scientists measure chaos through a property called entropy which can only get bigger over time. If entropy were to reduce in size that would be a marker that time had gone into reverse. This just does not occur in the observable universe. More on this later.
   
3. Third, finally and crucially for this paper, it seems that the direction of time is indefinite at the molecular level. The rationale used in the paper, reviewed above, seemed reasonable but, before I settled on this point as being correct, I did some digging around to satisfy myself as to its validity. Somewhat disconcertingly, at first, I found that some work had been done to demonstrate that time still flows in the direction of increasing entropy at the quantum level: https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-confirm-that-time-moves-forward-even-in-the-quantum-world. Since this latter paper was some seven years prior to my writing this current paper, I started looking for some newer research and experimentation and found, to my relief(?), that recent work seems to have overtaken that proposition. Furthermore, it not only finds the arrow of time to be indefinite but has found that time can proceed backwards at the quantum level:  https://www.iflscience.com/time-might-not-flow-in-just-one-direction-in-the-quantum-world-61758. For the scientifically minded here is the research paper, should you be so inclined: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-021-00759-1 and a short article on the experiment: https://www.newsweek.com/time-reversed-quantum-computer-1361215?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter. And again for the scientifically minded, here is a related research paper should you be interested: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-40765-6#Sec4. I think it is noteworthy that the development of quantum computers has enabled this finding; the unusual, if not unique, case of technology preceding correct science. In science, theory alone is not enough. Concrete experimental evidence is required to provide proof of concept. I would have to acknowledge that this is still early days in this research but I think it demonstrates two things. Firstly, at the smallest quantum level, time reversal appears to be a statistical possibility. Secondly, as soon as we get into slightly more complex systems the arrow of time probability is largely restored to the forward direction that we are familiar with. So here we seem to be able to acknowledge why time looks different between the very small and the day-to-day macroscopic view of the world that mankind has.
   

 

Quantum Time and Other Properties

So, if we were to take this argument that time can move in either direction in the quantum world, can I relate this to the spirit world? Or, more specifically, to God’s divine universe. In my Time paper, I reached the inescapable conclusion that God lives outside of time. However, another conclusion could be that God can manipulate time to go forwards or backwards perhaps by manipulating entropy in either direction as He so choses.

So we can argue that, in God’s universe, He can act in the same way regarding time as it exists in the quantum world. If that is so then might the other weird properties of quantum mechanics also find a parallel in the spirit world? If so then quantum mechanics’ weirdness was created to demonstrate to us mere mortals what awaits us in the systems to come. What seems weird to us now may become the norm that we will learn to live within. So let us go through the key weird QM Properties to see what we may be able to make of the spirit world. I have used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_quantum_mechanics as my main source of these properties.

Properties of Quantum Mechanics

So here are some of the other strange aspects of the quantum world to consider before trying to contemplate their spiritual counterparts. Properties of sub-atomic particles, such as position, speed, and angular momentum are quantized so they can only take specific values. There is no analogue aspect where these properties can take any value within the minimum or maximum range of values. One very specific example is that of angular spin which can only take a value of up or down. I list the main properties below:

1. The uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics, made famous by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, means that the more closely one pins down one measurement (such as the position of a particle), the less accurate another complementary measurement pertaining to the same particle (such as its speed) must become. So, its full set of property values cannot be known with certainty. In this sense a particle acts as a wave according to the equally famous Schrödinger Wave equation.
2. Wave function collapse means that a measurement has forced or converted a quantum (probabilistic or superposition) state into a definite measured value. So, measurement removes the probabilistic/uncertain nature of a particle. The non-deterministic nature of the wave function is reduced down to the deterministic properties of a particle but without the observer's being able to measure more than one of those properties.
   
3. Entanglement, in which a measurement of any two-valued state of a particle (such as light polarized up or down) made on either of two "entangled" particles that are very far apart causes a subsequent measurement on the other particle to always be the other of the two values (such as polarized in the opposite direction). Measurement of one particle would cause immediate collapse of the wave function of both entangled particles regardless of their distance apart thereby intimating a faster than light speed interaction.
   
4. As per the introductory sections of this paper, time can flow in forwards and backwards directions at the quantum level.
   
5. In physics, quantum tunnelling, barrier penetration, or simply tunnelling is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which an object such as an electron or atom can pass through a potential energy barrier that, according to classical mechanics, the object does not have sufficient energy to enter or surmount. Tunnelling is a consequence of the wave nature of matter, where the quantum wave function describes the state of a particle or other physical system, and wave equations such as the Schrödinger equation describe their behaviour. 

 

Particles, Waves and Spirits

Both light and sub-atomic particles behave like waves and particles. The famous double slit experiment demonstrates that a light beam and a stream of elementary particles both create an interference pattern behind the slits. This confirms that a beam of light behaves as a stream of particles, that are known as photons, and a stream of electrons behaves as a wave form like the electromagnetic wave properties of light.  For further details, check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment. An individual electron will land in a pile on the screen behind the slit that it passed through. But when a whole stream of electrons is fired at the screen all the combined probabilities of all the individual electrons provide the same diffraction pattern we see with light.  So here we are dealing not only with the dual nature of particulate matter and electromagnetic waveforms but also the probabilistic nature of how individual particles behave. So, what is a particle? Is it really a small point of matter that we can touch and feel? Probabilistically where is it; is it smeared out in a cloud of probabilities in space?

So how might this be representative of the spiritual existence? Let us look at a couple of verses from the Book of Job:

14 If He set His heart upon man, if He gather unto Himself his spirit and his breath; (Job 34 JPS)
14אִם-יָשִׂים אֵלָיו לִבּוֹ;    רוּחוֹ וְנִשְׁמָתוֹ, אֵלָיו יֶאֱסֹף. (Job 34 WLC)
15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return unto dust. (Job 34 JPS)
15יִגְוַע כָּל-בָּשָׂר יָחַד;    וְאָדָם, עַל-עָפָר יָשׁוּב. (Job 34 WLC)

Here we are being told that God will gather certain elements of a righteous man to Himself. Those elements are translated as 'spirit' and 'breath' from the Hebrew words 'רוּחוֹ' and 'וְנִשְׁמָתוֹ' respectively. From the second quoted verse we can see that these two attributes exclude man’s physical form and therefore his whole soul (Mind, Heart and Spirit).

Let us have a closer look at those two Hebrew words. ‘רוּחוֹ’ can literally take the meaning of ‘spirit’ or ‘breath’. ‘וְנִשְׁמָתוֹ’ can literally take the meaning of ‘breath’ or ‘spirit’.  Confused? It would appear both words are interchangeable albeit with their primary meanings as indicated in the JPS translation shown above. So, man has a physical body in this world but ‘only’ a spirit and breath when he will reside with God. Man acts as an individual particle in this world where his free-will actions are probabilistic based on his intentions at any point in time during his life on Earth. Even this probabilistic, and therefore non-deterministic, behaviour is mirrored in the quantum world. There is no way for us to know what decision a person will make upon being given a known set of circumstances. The actions that person did not take at that decision point, will probably never be known. Does this not sound like a particle’s being measured and presenting a previously unknowable state for one (and only one) of its properties?

When in the presence of God, we will revert to the less tangible (to us) form of a spirit or breath which is clearly more like an electromagnetic wave without a particulate form. But this wavelike existence is still nonetheless the same sentient being that he was as a fleshly man. Is this what quantum mechanics is telling us; that our future existence will be very different and non-materialistic from what we experience on Earth today? Well, no surprise there, I guess!

Paul, in his first letter to the congregation at Corinth, makes this distinction between our Earthly and Heavenly lives abundantly clear:

44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
45 So also it has been written, "The" first "man", Adam, "became a living soul;" the last Adam a life-giving Spirit. [Gen. 2:7]
46 But not the spiritual first, but the natural; afterward the spiritual.
47 The first man [was] out of earth, earthy. The second Man [was] the Lord out of Heaven. [Gen. 2:7]
48 Such [as is] the earthy [man], such also [are] the earthy ones. And such [as is] the heavenly [Man], such also [are] the heavenly ones.
49 And as we bore the image of the earthy [man], we shall also bear the image of the heavenly [Man].
50 And I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit [the] kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I speak a mystery to you: we shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed. (1 Corinthians 15 GLT)

And just in case of any further doubt, John tells us that God is a Spirit so He is of the wave form not the material:

24 God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth. (John 4 KJV)

Adam was made in God’s image. Therefore, Adam was spirit. We are all children of Adam, so we are all spirit, albeit encompassed within a, fleshly particulate body:

27 And God created the man in His own image; in the image of God He created him. He created them male and female. (Genesis 1 GLT)

Christ’s manifestation as a fleshly man could be argued as the spiritual becoming material according to John:

14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1 KJV)

Could this be akin to mankind’s ‘measurement’ of a waveform, with Christ’s physical interaction with mankind thereby ‘collapsing’ the wave into a particle without mankind really being able to see all His attributes? After His resurrection as a Spirit being, we have His restored ability to be with all of His followers at all times. Sounds like He was again turned back into an indeterminate waveform?

20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matthew 28 KJV)

And likewise with the Holy Spirit:

13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. (John 16 KJV)

There have also been several manifestations of angels appearing in the form of men. The two that visited Lot are one example:

1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. (Genesis 19 KJV)

So, I would argue that the material and spiritual worlds, described in scripture, are mirrored by the particulate and waveform manifestations of the quantum world.

 
 

The Fabric of Space-time and Quantum Entanglement

While I originally intended to address the items in their listed sequence in the QM Properties section above, I got overtaken by item 3, quantum entanglement, which Einstein famously described as ‘spooky action at a distance’. So, this is the point in time where you will need to hold on to your hats for that roller-coaster ride that I promised you earlier. Also, good luck in trying to understand what follows. I struggled with it myself but have tried to make it as easy as I can for my esteemed readers, as well as myself, to comprehend.

Just before we launch into entanglement, it is worth putting quantum mechanics into an appropriate context. Niels Bohr was a pioneer in the field and one of the first people to describe the weird things of quantum and I quote: “If you can think about quantum theory without getting dizzy, you don’t get it.”. Similarly, I have argued elsewhere that if you think you understand the Bible then you clearly do not! You need the True Bible Code at your side to demonstrate how much you do not understand! QM and scripture have much in common, at least to my mind.

In my search to determine why God’s creation at the fundamental level of quantum mechanics was so counterintuitive to mankind’s experience of the ‘real world’, it seemed to me that God was trying to tell us that the reality of His existence was fundamentally different from ours. Was this a clue for us to start to imagine the limitations of our current existence and compare it with the life to come. It is as if our reality is perhaps no more than a holographic image of the true reality. For reference, I provide a description of the holographic process: https://physicswave.com/how-does-holography-work/. As you will see this is germane to what follows in that mankind is able to project a 3-D image on a 2-D format.

I had struggled over numerous attempts to find coherence in the various debates about the nature of the quantum world until I came across the current theories that link arguably the strangest of quantum phenomenon, that of entanglement, with the very fabric of space-time. Dear reader, you will have to hang on to your seats since I must confess that the material that I am about to present to you is at the very edge of my own ability to comprehend.

Before we get into the heavy lifting, it is worth reading the following link. It provides a clear statement on the issue that has always concerned me and all the world’s physicists. Why is the quantum world so weird compared to classical physics and how can we link the two together given that our 'normal' is built on quantum weirdness. The cosmological scale of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, based effectively on classical physics, is built on the very small and weird Quantum Mechanics. Both have been proven experimentally to be correct but they do not relate to each other in any way. How can that be? This link also provides a good connection between this dichotomy and the relevance of the holographic principle introduced above that is fundamental to the material that follows: https://phys.org/news/2018-03-universe-hologram-mind-blowing-theories-theoretical.html.

Still with me? Now, before we get started, it is probably a good idea to provide an introduction to quantum entanglement. The following link is as good as any other I have reviewed: https://theconversation.com/what-is-quantum-entanglement-a-physicist-explains-the-science-of-einsteins-spooky-action-at-a-distance-191927.

As if that wasn’t enough, we now come to the truly mind-blowing stuff. Research over the last couple or so decades has come up with the theory that quantum entanglement is not just a strange quantum effect but represents the very basis of the construction of our universe!! Whilst the research is still at a very theoretical level, it is an area that has numerous research groups working on it. The scientific community consider this to be one of the most important areas of work in trying to discover the ‘Theory of Everything’ together with a working basis for uncovering the nature of Quantum Gravity. These are the two most pressing topics for physicists since Einstein put together his concepts of General Relativity.

Ok, so here we go. Current work is based on a theoretical construct put together by Juan Maldacena in a paper from 1998. To demonstrate its importance, since it was published that has been the most highly cited paper in high energy physics work with over 7000 citations as of 2010. The subject of that paper was on the 'anti-de Sitter Space/Conformal Field Theory correspondence'.

Maldacena’s idea was based on a theoretical construct of a model universe (not ours but that was to keep the theory simple to start with). We can think of that universe as being represented as a cylinder. The volume represents anti-de Sitter space-time with the vertical axis representing the time dimension and horizontal slices through the cylinder representing slices of hyperbolic space.

So, first off, what is hyperbolic space? Accepted Euclidean geometry draws straight lines on a 2D flat surface with several rules that apply to this geometry. However, as accepted as this is to the mathematical community and its being used successfully by engineers and architects to build man-made structures, it is noteworthy that there are no straight lines in the natural world. I found the following link helpful in describing the three basic geometries of zero (Euclidean), positive (spherical), and negative (hyperbolic) curvature. Like me, you may want to avoid the mathematics which only appears towards the end of the paper: https://collignon.github.io/2020/07/notes-on-hyerpbolic-geometry/.

The following link provides a ‘simple’ introduction to anti-de Sitter (AdS) space as its climax and, in doing so, covers a good wealth of information on other related factors. Warning: whilst this is a good introduction to AdS, do not expect an easy read; oh yes and feel free to ignore the mathematical section at the end of the document if you are so inclined: http://www.quantumfieldtheory.info/dS_and_AdS_spaces.pdf. The following link offers an alternative intro in its ‘Non-Technical Explanation’ which may be helpful: https://handwiki.org/wiki/Anti-de_Sitter_space. Apart from these two, I am afraid that I have been unable to find a more suitable simpler explanation of AdS space-time. I have tried pulling together my own AdS basic description but found that all I was doing was copying elements from the above two papers. Not a lot of point in doing that and I would probably be losing something in the translation. Maybe we are being told plainly that it is just not simple and neither are the creations of our God!

I have also tried to find an easy-to-understand description of Conformal Field Theory (CFT), the other half of Maldacena’s work. I could find no such useful link. So, I think the best thing to do now is to proceed directly with the AdS/CFT concept. The following link provides a wonderful ‘Janet and John’ explanation for the concept; the easiest that I could find: https://physicsworld.com/a/knitting-space-time-out-of-quantum-entanglement/. So, what we basically have here is that a 4-D AdS space-time volume is created from a 3-D surface made up of quantum entangled connections. The 3-D surface is a holographic representation of the 4-D space-time bulk. Whilst still a toy universe, it is nonetheless, providing a rich vein of research that, hopefully, will lead to a better understanding of how our own universe has been created. If this theoretical model is correct, God is demonstrating to us here how the very large is created from the very small.

I have found a couple of links on this topic that may help explain things perhaps a little more easily than my own writings. This first one is a relatively easy read to start you off: https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/ads-cft-correspondence-maldacena-25-years/. I also found the following link helpful as a good entry point on the topic: https://www.nature.com/articles/527290a. This is another relatively easy read on the subject, should you want more: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2019/quantum-origin-spacetime.

An excellent introduction to the subject is to be found at the following link; but please do not expect such an easy read as the previous articles: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/entanglement-gravitys-long-distance-connection. One of the exciting things about the ideas, expressed in this article, is that they appear to be bringing the notions of black holes and wormholes back from the arena of science fiction to the world of real scientific theory. Also, these ideas look promising in finally coming up with the ‘theory of everything’ that would incorporate the notion of quantum gravity. This is one very large missing piece that has, thus far, defied the understanding of far greater minds than this humble servant of God.

Apologies for going a little ‘off-piste’ but the following link from the above paper goes on to also propose that string theory has a major part to play in bringing together quantum theory and the very fabric of the universe: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/shadow-world. So perhaps my ideas as expressed in my ‘A Brief History of Darkness’ paper are not so outlandish after all?

As I stated previously, the above links relate the AdS/CFT duality to a holographic principle. As a reprise, the basics of holography are also reasonably well covered in the following link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography. So, mankind already has the techniques available from our technology to produce a 2-D representation of a 3-D object from the characteristics of light waves. If mankind can project the effect of a 3-D solid object onto a 2-D screen, then it does not seem to be much of a stretch to expect our God to be able to do the converse on a much larger (and smaller) scale.

 

Quantum Mechanics and the Scriptures

I have presented much deep scientific theory in the above section, so I think it is time to determine how this might be reflected in the scriptures. One verse of note in this respect can be found in Paul’s letter to the Roman congregation. In the current context, ‘the unseen things’ of those times could include the quantum world which we can ‘see’ today but not fully ‘understand’. The ‘seen’ are built upon the edifice of the ‘unseen’. The ‘clearly seen’ represents the world that man can see and ‘understand’ whilst their creation remains a mystery of God’s power both then and now:

20 For the unseen things of Him from [the] creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both His eternal power and Godhead, for them to be without excuse. (Romans 1 GLT)

In a similar vein, we also have Paul’s letter to the Hebrew congregation. In this verse we are being told that the things we can see (our apparently real world) were made from things that do not appear. The latter are arguably the very small quantum world that was certainly completely unseen in biblical times and only seen now by high energy physics experiments and complex mathematical theories:

3 By faith we understand the ages to have been framed by [the] Word of God, so that the things seen [should] not come into being out of things that appear. (Hebrews 11 GLT)

In keeping with the previous two examples, this further verse from Paul’s second letter to the Corinthian congregation is possibly even more telling. All these verses are literally referring to the spiritual as opposed to the material. So, again, this is telling me that, in the greater meaning, the quantum world is representative of the real existence not the one that is our everyday temporal experience. The quantum world maps onto the spiritual and is the eternal reality and not our current temporary and mortal existence on the Earth:

18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal. (2 Corinthians 4 KJV)

And more of the same in his letter to the Colossian congregation. Here both God and Christ are specifically identified as invisible in keeping with their invisible creations again, arguably meaning both spiritual and quantum are being referenced:

15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
16 for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him; (Colossians 1 ASV)

In a somewhat different manifestation, Matthew tells of Jesus’ transfiguration. This appearance of Christ, together with two of the (apparently alive) Patriarchs could only have been some form of heavenly manufactured film or a vision based on a heavenly reality given that all three disciples saw it. Again, either of these two alternative explanations would be an impossibility in terms of our day-to-day experiences of this life and in terms that our classical science can explain. The art of this apparent impossibility is as the quantum world presents itself perhaps:

1 And after six days, Jesus took Peter and James, and his brother John, and brought them up into a high mountain privately.
2 And He was transfigured before them, and His face shone like the sun, and His clothing became white as the light.
3 And, behold! Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. (Matthew 17 GLT)

Similarly, Jesus’ appearance to the disciples after His apparent death:

26 And after eight days, His disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. The door having been locked, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said, Peace to you. (John 20 GLT)

And in the parallel account of Luke, the disciples thought they were witnessing a spirit. Jesus then tells them that a spirit does not have material properties, i.e., no physical body. It is as if Jesus is saying that He has transformed from a collapsed waveform into a particulate entity with deterministic properties:

37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?9
39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. (Luke 24 KJV)

Can we find any examples of spirit/quantum entanglement in the scriptures? Well, yes, how is this for starters:

30 I and the Father are one. (John 10 ASV)

As per my Trinity paper, Jesus and the Father are two separate spirits which presumably means either spirit can be anywhere at any time, subject to the rules of the spirit world. So, if they are one, they must be in a mutual and intimate relationship. However, whether this means they must both reveal their particulate state at one and the same time I very much doubt. So perhaps we cannot take this comparison too far? 

In a similar vein, David sings of the close tie between himself and God in both thought and deed:

1 O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me].
2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.
3 Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.
5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thy hand upon me.
6 [Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there. (Psalms 139 ASV)

And then we have the case of the Holy Spirit being intimately involved with the disciples:

26  In like manner the spirit also joins in with help for our weakness; for the [problem of] what we should pray for as we need to we do not know, but the spirit itself pleads for us with groanings unuttered.
27  Yet he who searches the hearts knows what the meaning of the spirit  is, because it is pleading in accord with God for holy ones. (Romans 8)

Another example might be Jesus’ healing powers being executed instantaneously at a distance:

6 and saying, Lord, my child has been laid in the house, a paralytic, being grievously tormented.
7 And Jesus said to him, I will come and heal him.
8 And answering, the centurion said, Lord, I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof, but only speak a word and my child will be healed.
13 And Jesus said to the centurion, Go, and as you have believed, [so] let it be to you. And his child was healed in that hour. (Matthew 8 GLT)

In my JC Superdoc paper, I suggest the possibility of the use of a wormhole for Jesus’ healing abilities. Given the above scientific theories, maybe even this outlandish proposition is being given more credibility with modern high energy physics considerations.

Probably one of the biggest miracles of God (apart from the creation!) was when He made the heavenly bodies stop in their tracks for a whole day. This is tantamount to temporarily changing the physical laws in our universe. According to the AdS/CFT proposition this would be akin to altering the three-dimensional surface that governs the nature of our projected four-dimensional universe:

12 Then spake Joshua to Jehovah in the day when Jehovah delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; And thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.
13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, Until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. (Joshua 10 ASV)

In fact, God made this happen on a second occasion also by causing the shadow on a sundial to go backwards:

9 And Isaiah saith, 'This {is} to thee the sign from Jehovah, that Jehovah doth the thing that He hath spoken -- The shadow hath gone on ten degrees, or it doth turn back ten degrees?'
10 And Hezekiah saith, 'It hath been light for the shadow to incline ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow turn backward ten degrees.'
11 And Isaiah the prophet calleth unto Jehovah, and He bringeth back the shadow by the degrees that it had gone down in the degrees of Ahaz -- backward ten degrees. (2 Kings 20 YLT)

Then we have the scriptures about God’s stretching out of the heavens. There are several examples of this in the scriptures, but I found one of the Isaiah verses particularly interesting in this context. The Youngs Literal Translation of this verse does not translate the Hebrew word ‘כַדֹּק’ as ‘curtain’, as most English translations do, but as ‘thin thing’ which is a much more literal translation. Could this perhaps be describing the surface that has been proposed that surrounds and defines the universe:

22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: (Isaiah 40 KJV)

22 He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants {are} as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in. (Isaiah 40 YLT)

22הַיֹּשֵׁב עַל-חוּג הָאָרֶץ, וְיֹשְׁבֶיהָ כַּחֲגָבִים; הַנּוֹטֶה כַדֹּק שָׁמַיִם, וַיִּמְתָּחֵם כָּאֹהֶל לָשָׁבֶת. (Isaiah 40 WLC)

We have not explicitly said much about quantum tunnelling in this paper. Is Christ’s finding His way into the locked room the spiritual equivalent of a particle tunnelling through a barrier or is it ‘merely’ His transportation through a wormhole I wonder?

19 Then it being evening on that day, the first of the sabbaths, and the doors having been locked where the disciples were assembled because of fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said to them, Peace to you. (John 20 GLT)

 

The Measurement ‘Problem’

The so-called ‘measurement problem’ relates to whether or not a conscious observer is required for the collapse of a measured wave function. This is a matter of intense debate within and between numerous different disciplines and has raged ever since the double-slit experiment was first carried out.

To kick this section off, the following link is coming out with the ‘objective collapse’ proposal that does not require human consciousness for a wave function collapse: https://landing.newscientist.com/department-for-education-feature-3/. This argues that the large-scale structure of the universe could not have otherwise occurred based on the theoretically requisite wave collapses due to the absence of human observation, oh yes, and the absence of God! A Christian might suggest that this position is effectively proving the view that consciousness DOES cause wave function collapse if one accepts that there is a God who made and controls the universe.

From this link alone, objective collapse seems to have mixed views within the scientific community and has its own share of flaws currently as we can see from the next link on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-collapse_theory. The following article appears even more damning in its view of such theories: https://www.quantamagazine.org/physics-experiments-spell-doom-for-quantum-collapse-theory-20221020/. These objections will not be resolved any time soon, if ever. Once again, I am thinking that this is yet another attempt by man to deny God’s consciousness throughout the creation of the cosmos and thereby His very existence. I am reminded of the following scripture quoted in my Wisdom paper:

13 Which things we also speak, not in words taught in human wisdom, but in [Words] taught of the Holy Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual [things].
14 But a natural man does not receive the things of [the] Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know [them], because they are spiritually discerned. (1 Corinthians 2 GLT)

In addition, I am sure that God’s retort to Job would be appropriate for the writers of the ‘objective collapse’ hypothesis:

4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. (Job 38 KJV)

31 Can you tie fast the bonds of the Kimah constellation, Or can you loosen the very cords of the Kesil constellation? (Job 38 NWT)

Even the following paper: https://philosophynow.org/issues/121/Does_Consciousness_Cause_Quantum_Collapse, which appears to support the concept that consciousness causes wave function collapse, still is not capable of recognising the essence of the human spirit (check out my paper: Spirit v Brain) in their effort to ignore the presence of God.

Whilst this is still a hot debate for many, I am now firmly coming off the fence and stating that I believe, without any doubt, that man’s conscious effort to measure quantum effects is the direct cause of wave function collapse.  Furthermore, I believe that such collapse is due to man’s spirit somehow interacting with the quantum world, not some physically explicable function of the human brain’s biochemistry. God can make physical changes with His spirit so why cannot man:

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. (Genesis 1 KJV)

Similarly, Christ told His disciples that a small amount of faith will enable them to literally move mountains. What more evidence do we need of the power of the spirit over the material:

20 He said to them: Because of your little faith. For truly I say to you, If you have faith the size of a mustard grain, you will say to this mountain, 'Transfer from here to there,' and it will transfer, and nothing will be impossible for you. (Matthew 17 NWT)

 

Information Conservation

The conservation of quantum information was not an aspect of quantum mechanics that I had any prior knowledge of at the start of this exercise. Consequently, I was not  expecting to research this topic when I decided to write this paper. However, having tripped up over the subject while researching the rest of this paper, it struck me that it could prove to be fruitful ground in the overall context.

This turned out to be easier said than done. For me this was entirely new territory and seemed to be filled with even more extreme mathematics and fuzzy thinking than the rest of Quantum Theory. My head was in a daze after several days of this because I found it difficult to gain any sort of a foothold on the subject. This was coupled with the fact that there seemed to be numerous voices and arguments pressing against its validity. The apparent linkage between the conservation of quantum information and entropy I found to be particularly unintelligible given my understanding of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Furthermore, there seemed to be no experimental evidence for the theories to support the notion of information conservation. I was very close to just plain giving up on it and deleting this whole section.

However, there was this little voice urging me to continue the quest; this seemed to be a potentially important aspect of the spiritual connection to Quantum Mechanics. Needless to say, just prior to my giving up on this piece of the puzzle, I was then swiftly lead to the following link. It describes a relatively recent experiment that provided material evidence, for the concept of information conservation holding up in the real quantum world, which this area sorely needed: https://phys.org/news/2011-03-quantum-no-hiding-theorem-experimentally.html. This was again a very recent development assisting me in this overall quest. Interestingly this seems to be another case of the technology of quantum computing proving the science of Quantum Theory. This was the point at which I decided to press on and see where my research into quantum information would take me.

OK, so here goes. There appear to be three theorems supporting the idea of information  conservation. The first thing to do is to try to understand what is actually meant by ‘information’. In searching this out I have found that I needed to move into the world of philosophy, another completely new venture for me. In this regard, I found a useful place to start was with the so-called Laplace’s Demon:  https://www.informationphilosopher.com/freedom/laplaces_demon, and I quote:

"We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes."

This statement clearly supports the Christian viewpoint. As per my Time paper, if God resides outside of time and space, then He will have the view of the whole of creation from Day 1 of Genesis until the end of the current Day 7 in our universe. Consequently, one could argue that information is conserved in the eyes of God since He will know, not just the regular causality that we observe in classical physics, but He will also know, in advance, the outcome from all the probabilities of wave function collapses.

Clearly the Information Philosopher does not agree with this position with some perfectly logical argumentation with the end result being, and I quote: ‘The new reason is that there is not enough information in the past (none at all in the early universe) to determine the present.’ I would argue, however, that this is the position from man’s point of view. The probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics is in lockstep with mankind’s decision-making as I described at the beginning of this paper (Particles, Waves and Spirits section). Just because we do not know how things will turn out in either of these scenarios in advance does not mean that God does not:

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55 ASV)

So now I return to the experiment identified at the start of this section that demonstrated, notwithstanding the IP’s arguments, that information at the quantum level IS conserved. There are three (at least) theorems that support this notion. The theorem that the experiment tested out is the ‘No Hiding Theorem’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hiding_theorem). I have to confess that the physics and mathematics in this area is outside of my ability to comprehend at a detailed level but the essence of this theorem is that the wave function contains all the information on a particular quantum state and that information is never lost even if it undergoes a collapse or transformation. The data remains somewhere in the universe and I quote from the abstract of the actual experiment’s research paper: ‘The no-hiding theorem says that if any physical process leads to bleaching of quantum information from the original system, then it must reside in the rest of the Universe with no information being hidden in the correlation between these two subsystems.’

This theorem effectively comes out of two other supporting theorems, the first of which is the ‘No-cloning theorem’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem) and I quote: ‘In physics, the no-cloning theorem states that it is impossible to create an independent and identical copy of an arbitrary unknown quantum state.’ This says to me that every quantum state is unique in terms of its information content.

The second supporting theorem is the ‘No-deleting theorem’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-deleting_theorem and (https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/364458/quantum-no-deleting-theorem-explanation#365354). And again, I quote: ‘In physics, the no-deleting theorem of quantum information theory is a no-go theorem which states that, in general, given two copies of some arbitrary quantum state, it is impossible to delete one of the copies.’ My interpretation of this is that when we have an entangled pair of quantum states that they cannot be destroyed as a pair and therefore their entangled state will always be retained until such time as they are jointly collapsed by measurement or some such action when we then enter the no-hiding theorem’s territory.

These three theorems are all considered to be ‘no-go theorems’ whereby, in theoretical physics, a no-go theorem is a theorem that states that a particular situation is not physically possible. I found the following link to be helpful on this principle: https://blog.cupcakephysics.com/quantum%20mechanics/2015/03/21/the-no-go-theorems-of-quantum-information-theory-part-1.html.

So, going back to the Information Philosopher’s perspective, my response to him is that the proven laws of quantum mechanics support God’s view not man’s. Looking back at my Time paper, if God does truly live outside time, then in His eyes no information will be lost since information loss is dependent on the flow of time. If time does not flow, in His perception, then information loss has no meaning.

Clearly no loss of information exists in God’s view given His ability to prophesy events in mankind’s future such as the coming of Christ’s Gospel:

14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. (Isaiah 7 KJV)

1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
2 which he promised afore through his prophets in the holy scriptures, (Romans 1 ASV)

Whilst arguably taken out of context there is, nonetheless, the promise that there will be no information loss; this verse looks like the Bible version of the ‘No Hiding Theorem’:

2 But there is nothing which has been completely concealed which will not be uncovered, nor hidden which will not be known. (Luke 12 GLT)

Paul confirms that God and Christ know ‘all’ information from the start to the end of this universe; a confirmation, I think, that no data is lost:

2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, [even] Christ,
3 in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden. (Colossians 2 ASV)

No quantum information loss in physical nature mirrors that in the spirit world. God does not change and the ‘information’ associated with human souls (bodies + spirits) will not be deleted:

6 For I, Jehovah, change not. Because of this, you sons of Jacob are not destroyed. (Malachi 3 GLT)

Our very souls were information in God’s purview even prior to our birth; the example of David:

15 My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, [And] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, [Even] the days that were ordained [for me], When as yet there was none of them. (Psalms 139 ASV)

And of Jeremiah:

5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. (Jeremiah 1 KJV)

Predestination demonstrates that what (and indeed who) exists today has always existed as information in God’s eyes:

4 even as He elected us in Him before [the] foundation of [the] world, for us to be holy and without blemish before Him in love,
5 predestinating us to adoption through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, (Ephesians 1 GLT)

Not only is the information of a man’s soul known in advance of his birth but also the resurrection further demonstrates that the information associated with man’s non-Adamic DNA and his spirit is never deleted in this world or the next:

25 Jesus said to her, I am the Resurrection and the Life. The [one] believing into Me, though he die, he shall live. (John 11 GLT)

19 Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. (Isaiah 26 KJV)

All souls will be resurrected be it for good or for judgement; no soul together with its information will ever be deleted:

28 Marvel not at this: for the hour cometh, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice,
29 and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment. (John 5 ASV)

Moving on, I have mentioned the concept of entropy several times throughout this paper. It has become clear to me, in the writing of this section, that there is a relationship between information at the quantum level and entropy both at the quantum and classical physical level. Put as simply as I can, the entropy with which I am familiar is that of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and this always increases with time. This represents a statistical smoothing of a macroscopic system’s state based on the detailed activity at the microscopic level. This smoothing is based on a lack of detailed knowledge of the total set of information describing the totality of the microscopic state of the system. From this we can see that there is indeed a relationship between entropy and information. One might argue that entropy and information are representative of the minds of man and God respectively, as a result of man not knowing all the information that is available to God. For a good refresher on entropy I found the following link helpful: https://www.cantorsparadise.com/it-took-me-10-years-to-understand-entropy-here-is-what-i-learned-b2d51e8ccd4c. For a more detailed but clear view of the information/entropy relationship, the same publisher’s second paper is a very good presentation of the subject: https://aurelien-pelissier.medium.com/on-the-conservation-of-information-and-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics-f22c0645d8ec.
 

Spiritual Reality 

A key turning point in my early years was when I asked myself the scary (to me) questions: 'Who am I?' 'What am I?' 'Where did I come from?' (A Spiritual Journey) some 60-odd years ago. Those questions were clearly based on my spiritual/conscious being rather than my physical existence. Now, some six decades on, I think I may be getting closer to the answers to those questions than I have ever been before. In studying quantum mechanics for this paper, several things have become substantially clearer.

In one of the earlier sections of this paper I referred to a scripture that defined God as a spirit. Whilst this was not new news to me, I think its full significance has only really just struck me. In my Time paper, I compared the universe to a video game. We humans are the characters in the game and God is the programmer who wrote all the software to structure the physical playing environment (the universe and its laws) and the characters living within that environment. He also wrote each character’s AI component. The latter providing their own abilities to learn about their environment and the other characters with whom they would come into contact. The AI component would enable the characters to make their own decisions in life based on their free will to make those calls. It represents their personality, who they are. So, the body represents the programming for the physical attributes of each of us and the spirit is the AI element. I think this verse from Zechariah sums up the whole process rather well:

1 The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. [Thus] saith Jehovah, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him: (Zechariah 12 ASV)

However there is one key difference between God and those who would play at being God. Worryingly, human AI programmers do not understand how their neural networks actually learn to make decisions (https://qz.com/1146753/ai-is-now-so-complex-its-creators-cant-trust-why-it-makes-decisions) but God, thankfully, clearly does since He knows each of us intimately:

12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4 KJV)

Without the AI element of the spirit, the physical character effectively does not exist:

26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. (James 2 KJV)

Having looked at the current thinking related to the AdS/CFT proposition, that comparison now seems even more credible. Bear in mind, both the Time paper and this one are based on current scientific thinking. The thought that our universe, and thereby our very physical existence, may be based on a holographic image derived from quantum entanglement would seem to support the video game comparison very well indeed to my mind.

So, what are the ramifications of all this? God is a spirit and we, via Adam, are made in God’s image. Therefore, we are essentially spirits. Our spiritual existence is clearly reality, since the one thing that each of us can be certain of is that, through our consciousness, we do exist. The universe that we live in (including our own physical being), however, would seem to be a material fabrication. The Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Mechanics is a good indication that we cannot be sure of the physical environment in which we live. This would seem therefore to be God’s sandbox where He is testing the quality of each of our AI learning and decision-making processes.

So, the answer to my original three questions would seem to be that I am a conscious spiritual creation, a child of God with my own personality. My original questions have then moved on to ‘where am I?’ and ‘where am I going?’. Well, from the foregoing, it would seem that the spiritual me, alongside the rest of humanity, exist in a fabricated (and therefore unreal!) physical environment in which we are being tested to see what level of morality each of us attains in this (far from perfect) life. What happens to each of us going forward will depend on the level we attain in God’s eyes and thereby the next stage in our spiritual development. Do we attain to the next level, a full system test, or is it back to the AI laboratory for a partial rewrite?!

Well, you could say that there is nothing new in any of that. But for me, the point of the exercise is that God’s tiniest of creations, sub-atomic particles, is showing us God’s true power and our true identity. Spiritual existence = reality; physical existence = fabrication. This is the very opposite of our experience of and our response to the material world in which we live:

11 For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.
12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual [words].
14 Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged. (1 Corinthians 2 ASV)

Clearly, I am not the only one questioning our perception of reality. Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity have been throwing up this challenge for some time now. Examples such as https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/reality-objective-exist/ and https://phys.org/news/2020-08-quantum-paradox-foundations-reality.html demonstrate this thinking which, unsurprisingly, is moving the heavily proven science of quantum mechanics into the realm of philosophy. This is largely as a result of considering the implications of entanglement outside of any thinking brought about by the AdS/CFT proposition.
 

Synopsis

1. Quantum Mechanics is a proven but counter-intuitive science. Q. Why would God make the science of the very small so very different from classical science at the macroscopic level?  A. To give mankind an insight into the real nature of creation and the spirit realm.
2. An example of this is that time can only flow in a forward direction in the macroscopic world but can be indeterminate at the microscopic level.
   
3. Particles can act as waves and vice versa. I argue that this mirrors the behaviour of divine, angelic and human spirits.
   
4. A current and well-cited theory identifies quantum entanglement as the basic building mechanism of our entire cosmos and all created forms within it.
   
5. Scripture describes the seen as being built upon the unseen; a clear mirror into the quantum world.
   
6. Conscious measurement of a particle’s wave function will cause it to collapse from an indeterminate superposition of probable states into one definitive state. This is arguable evidence that the spiritual can affect the material.
   
7. Quantum theory requires that there is no information loss at the quantum level. This is compatible with scripture in that God has no loss of information about His creations throughout their whole existence in time and space.
   
8. The true reality is that of the spirit realm. Our material existence is no more than a fabricated 4-D universe in which we are enabled to play out our lives in a test-bed for God’s approval. Our true existence is that to come in God’s Kingdom.

 
Date of Publication: 5th April 2023

Health Warning

The scientific material in this paper is heavily based on String Theory. String Theory has the benefit that it proposes an elegant and pretty much all-encompassing approach to much of science and cosmology that we do not currently otherwise understand. Its drawback, however, is that it is so far an unproven theory that is still awaiting evidential proof. One key element of this is that the theory predicts the concept of supersymmetry whereby every known particle in the Standard Model has a supersymmetric partner. Thus far no such partners have been found and their predicted properties make it unlikely that they will be found any time soon although experiments are continuing the search.

Worryingly it seems to be taking on the role of a religious belief, in that it has a large body of adherents in the scientific community who are supporting the notion through continuing research while others are sniping from the side-lines. I think one needs to read all the positive and negative contributions with some degree of caution; it seems to me that advocates and dissenters alike are emotionally committed to their various points of view. The highly technical and mathematical content of the theory makes it that much more difficult to make a good value judgement on the matter.

To give you a flavour of the negative press that String Theory has attracted and to put it into context, I will give you both sides of the debate. Given that String Theory is very much at the leading edge of scientific research, all the links I am referencing below are relatively recent postings of no more than two years prior to the date of this writing. The following is a worrying link both for string theory and the AdS/CFT duality contained in this paper: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/requiem-for-a-string-charting-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-theory-of-everything/, followed by another worrying article for String Theorists: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2021/01/26/the-dream-of-string-theory-is-an-unlikely-broken-box/.

However, I promised a balanced view so, on a more positive note, the search for supersymmetry continues: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-status-of-supersymmetry. Or, perhaps, a potentially easier way to prove string theory experimentally: https://profmattstrassler.com/2022/03/20/a-prediction-from-string-theory/.

Needless to say, I am an adherent to the String Theory view of the universe. Otherwise, I would not have written two papers based on its being a correct structural basis for creation. To me, String Theory is a tantalising prospect in store that is not dissimilar to the True Bible Code. Both are highly appealing and seem to offer elegant answers to some of our hardest physical and spiritual questions. Both, however, still seem to be some little way off our unequivocal ability to provide evidential proof. God is clearly keeping His trump cards very close to His spiritual and physical chests! What were those scriptures about keeping on searching for the truth and the depths of God’s knowledge?

3 Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;
4 If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:
5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God. (Proverbs 2 ASV)

7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. (Matthew 7 KJV)

33 O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways! (Romans 11 YLT)

Oh yes, and I think these verses sum up our current state of understanding and knowledge compared to the unknown truth of the matter:

6 [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it. (Psalms 139 KJV)

12 for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known; (1 Corinthians 13 YLT)

Without wishing to make too much of it, is Isaiah confirming some of our notions of String Theory? In the following verse we have the notion of ‘rolling up the heavens as a scroll’. Is this a clue that the heavenly sphere has additional dimensions, compared with our universe, that will become ‘rolled up’ thereby providing the heavenly host with a mere 4 dimensions such as we are living in? Check the link below. It confirms the idea of the 10-dimensional requirement of String Theory with the six that we cannot see being described as ‘curled up’: https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/questions/superstring.html:

4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling [fig] from the fig tree. (Isaiah 34 KJV)

Let us take the concept of the 10 dimensions predicted by String Theory a little further. We are aware that we humans live in a four-dimensional universe (at least we think we do!). From reasoning in my other papers (Time, Dark Matters) those four dimensions, together with the limiting speed of light, provide an environment that prevents our wreaking too much damage on our universe, our own planet notwithstanding. Since we argued that God lives outside time, it is also arguable that He lives outside our concept of space.

I have found it next to impossible to find any scriptures that clearly define God’s home as being outside space. However, the following verse could give us an inkling of this. Taking it literally, once man attains a heavenly existence in God’s presence, we will no longer need the sun’s physical light since it will be replaced by God’s own spiritual light. Physical light requires all four dimensions, so it is arguable that God’s light needs no dimensions and exists outside our space-time continuum:

19  The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. (Isaiah 60)

23  And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. (Revelation 21)

Consequently, we can argue that there are no limits to God’s power as He is the creator of those limits, i.e. He lives in a no-dimensional universe. But what of the angels, particularly bearing in mind the demons? Given the power that angels have compared to us humans, it is arguable that the full ten-dimensional universe is reserved for their safe keeping:

20 Bless Jehovah, Oh you angels of his, mighty in power, carrying out his word, By listening to the voice of his word. (Psalms 103 NWT)

Even Jesus was made a little lower than the angels due to His mortality as a man:

9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. (Hebrews 2 KJV)

In this respect, the imprisonment and control of the powerful demons come to mind. Whatever control God  exerts over them, it might well include those extra dimensions to keep them hemmed in to limit their damaging behaviour when He so chooses:

6  And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.  (Jude 1)

4  For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; (2Peter 2)

1  And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2  And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3  And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. (Revelation 20)

26  And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. (Luke 16)

Similarly, Jesus’ very word has them under His complete control:

8  For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
9  And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
10  And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
11  Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
12  And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13  And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. (Mark 5)

Is this why String Theory comes up with 10 dimensions? Does String Theory also define the angels’ universe with even more restrictive dimensions than are required for us mere mortals? Certainly, a thought worth pondering over I believe.

This health warning also appears on the Dark Matters page, which also relies on the voracity of String Theory.

 

Courtesy of maktomine.com

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