Glimpses of God - Day Nine

More glimpses from Artist and St John's Parishioner, Sara Chu

I love reading books about quantum physics although I do not understand the mathematics.  The scientists who write the books—people like Stephen Hawking, Carlo Rovelli, Richard Feynman and others—describe the pursuit of scientific truth, facts, reality.  Yet  this pursuit of science has given us a reality full of  marvellous unknowables.

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle says if we know the position of something there is a limit to how precisely we can know it’s velocity (speed).  Science is full of wonders.  Einstein’s theory of general relativity says space and time are curved by gravity!!  Then there’s the mystery of black holes.  They are not black because they are empty.  Rather, the matter in black holes is so compressed and solid that it has extremely strong gravitational pull.  So black holes pull light back into themselves—hence the blackness.  Light cannot escape. These are only a few of the amazing discoveries in modern physics.  It is wonderful that what began as a search for hard factual “reality” has instead given us a reality that sounds rather magical.  I don’t understand the math but I love reading about the conclusions.  

People who ask whether one believes in God or in science have probably not read modern physics. 

 

Psalm 19.1-4

  The heavens are telling the glory of God 
   and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.
  One day pours out its song to another 
   and one night unfolds knowledge to another.
  They have neither speech nor language 
   and their voices are not heard,
  Yet their sound has gone out into all lands 
   and their words to the ends of the world.