A Virtual Reality
The Big Bang is the cosmological model of the initial conditions and subsequent development of the Universe that is supported by the most comprehensive and accurate explanations from current scientific evidence and observation. The term Big Bang generally refers to the idea that the Universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition at some finite time in the past (currently estimated to have been approximately 13.7 billion years ago).
All the matter in the Universe has come from a “primordial hot and dense” ball of stuff estimated to have been about the size of a small fruit. I read that when looking at a table and considering the actual particles of “stuff” versus space between the “stuff” that make up a table, the table should not exist. As I rest my hand on this table, my hand should pass right through. . . but it does not.
At a subconscious level, I must have an agreement with the universe that this table is solid. . . even though there isn’t enough “stuff” to make it so. It is not just this table, it is everything around me. I have agreed to participate in a set of rules that define reality and determine a common experience. The rules that determine my physical experience are shared. We all experience a shared set of rules. . . a Holographic Universe.
As I look around, and attempt to consider the complexity of all the rules that create my physical existence and the universe that surrounds me and realize everyone is sharing the same physical virtual universe, I have no doubt that God exists.
Published at: Dec. 1, 2009