i’ve been thinking about it.
scientists say everything in the Universe was compacted into a spec as small as an atom.
how can everything be in such a small space?
what did it explode into, nothing?
how can you expand into nothing if nothing is there to expand into? not even space.
just thinking.
Peter:
You are correct, IMHO. Consider the
atom: of what does it consist? If you said, for starters, a
nucleus, that would be correct. Now, of what does the nucleus consist? If you said
protons and
neutrons, you’d be correct again. Now, of what do protons and neutrons consist? If you said “
quarks,” again you’d be correct. Now, what are “quarks?” If you said “
point particles,” you’re on your way to the prize. What are “
point particles?” Simply dimensionless exigencies of negative mass. (Proton = 1.67 x 10[SUP]-27[/SUP] Kg)
OK. What else? Of course:
electrons! What are “electrons?” Quite simply,
point particles. In fact
point particles of even less mass than protons and neutrons. Consider also that the electron shell averages 50,000 times the size of the nucleus. So, even in the atom, what we have is particles without dimension and a bunch of continuous
space. Remember, from mathematics (or, geometry, as the case may be) while a line segment has “points” it does not consist of points. A larger line segment consists of smaller
line segments. Why? Simply, because
line segments have dimension.
This is to point out what dimensionality is, and what it means to be “dimensionless.” You could, theoretically, stack a billion points up, one on top of another, and never achieve any dimension, i.e., no magnitude. Now, if
space consists of areas of nothingness (continuous space) and
point particles, then one can conceive a huge yet finite number of them within a
singularity. A gentle nudge, by God IMO, and out they go, rapidly making discrete space as they advance - out into Infinite Nothingness. Since
time is not an exigency,
per se, but is a correlate of motion,
time is simultaneously tracking. God is
Infinite Nothingness, without derogation. God is the Infinite Nothingness that fills the
place wherein the electrons exist, in atoms. I use “Infinite Nothingness” here to signify what its appearance is to us at our level of
sight. We may call this level the
explicate level. What we see and what science reveals is at the
explicate level. God Creates at the
implicate level. Upon our deaths, I think we’ll be able to
see the “implicate.” If we make it to the Vision.
God bless,
jd