Existence - A Matter of Physics

To be or not to be...That is a question for science, not for philosophy or religion.

The question of existence is purely a matter of physics. Reality does not depend on logic, prose, or scripture. Something exists irrespective of philosophy, poetry, or theology. Don't let Aristotle, Shakespeare, or Jimmy Swaggart tell you what is real.

What is real is not a matter of intuition, interpretation, or indoctrination. What is real is something which is physically present. That is, an object with location. Something exists if it has length, width, height, and location with respect to all other objects.

No zero dimensional singularity, point particle, or dark energy can exist. Why? Because they are irrational concepts, not objects! Don't let anyone tell you that the universe is too mysterious to understand, too strange, or too complicated to fathom. The human intellect is limitless. If God understands it, He can explain it to you in a way that you can understand. If He can't explain it to you, then He doesn't understand it.

When your preacher tells you, "God's ways are mysterious," it means he doesn't understand God's ways. When Stephen Hawking tells you, "It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space." (p. 2x A Brief History In TIme), it is because he doesn't understand spacetime. When the poet says:

Supreme elegance
Unmatched aura Perpetual freedom Eager one is about them
Rationally defied by their presence
Nature's freaks or
Astonishing outworldly?
Terrible powers at their hands
Unimaginable abilities they harness
Reality stranger than fiction
Almost unbelievable until witnessed
Lustrous supernatural is for sure - Fatima

Don't buy it! These people do not understand because there is nothing there to understand. One cannot understand the irrational, one cannot understand the nonsensical, and one cannot understand the supernatural.

How can anyone understand square circles or three wheeled unicycles?

The logician can give you flawless systems of logic, the poet can serve you beautiful word salads, and the theologian can plead, "God works in mysterious ways." What have we learned?

Some may turn to science in frustration, but does it offer us any better explanations? The scientist can impress us with his degrees and bamboozle us with Quantum Mechanics. In the end what have we learned? Science has replaced Intelligent Design with Big Bang Creationism and God's mysterious ways with Quantum Strangeness. Modern physics has replaced magic with smoke and half-silvered mirrors. The mathematical physicist has replaced "thing space" with the much bigger "thought space" and as Marge Simpson says, "We can do anything now that science has invented magic."

Let's take a closer look at what science is offering us, and see why we should learn to think for ourselves, and how science can steer us off course.