Physics and Religion: a Beautiful Friendship

At the beginning of time, well– there was no beginning of time.  The universe is a series, a three-dimensional web really– comprised of pockets.  These pockets are defined by the organization of matter within them.  This organization creates what we perceive as time.

Think about it.  What is a day?  It is the amount of “time” it takes for the world to *rotate* around its core.  It is a compounded measure of movement taking into consideration the order that allows for movement to take place.  A year is how we measure the amount of time of our lives, and yet our sense of a year is created by the seasons– a creation of both the tilt of our Earth’s axis and its effects on our world to collect heat from the sun as we travel through one complete revolution. 

Even in that explanation, it is easy to quickly get a sense that our concept of “time” is a product of a complexity of interconnected variables.  When seen in this light, it is not difficult to understand how the theorem of relativity is not only possible, but inevitable based on what we know.

Most physical scientists agree that the universe is cyclical.  Our particular pocket may very well have been the product of a big bang, and it is possible that that big bang was the product of several pockets closing in on one, central pocket– confining it to an unimaginably small amount of space (think of a walnut, and then put all of the matter in our universe within it). Since time is created by order, by relationships between collections of variable masses, imagine that the pockets surrounding what is now our broad universe had a sort of surface tension manifested by their respective organizations of time.  These surface tensions must have incredible power to confine all the matter of our universe into that walnut sized space.  Finally, a critical point of pressure was reached, and an enormous reaction took place that probably created a give and take of sorts of the various orders of time in the surrounding pockets.  The expansion was violent, and is thought to still be taking place.

So, what do we do with this knowledge?  Spirtually, pychically, religiously, it can be experienced as a hugely and entirely unwanted disturbance.  The bad news is that it may not really be possible to experience peace with this kind of information against our evolved senses of the world as a product of intelligence beyond our own.  Or is it?  Is it possible to recruit our religious impulses to give life to a much broader world of cycles than we ever imagined?