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Black Hole
Science of the soul
Science and religion have often come into conflict in the question of how life originated, with religion putting mankind at the ‘center of the universe,’ while science sees us as only a part of the vast, vibrating network called the Universe. From Copernicus to Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Hawking, and the many great minds in between, it has become scientifically proven and generally accepted by science that the universe emerged from a great explosion or Big Bang, from which all things in the universe sprang and evolved, including humans. We are literally made of the matter of the universe, and this has been a source of conflict for many of the Creationists, who believe in ‘God’ as mankind’s creator, and a separate entity with whom our soul can be reconciled in eternity. And this may be true, if you think of God as The Universe…
There is one element of our being that science has not yet adequately addressed, and that is ‘the existence of the soul’. While the ‘faith-based’ believers accept the soul or spirit as part of our being, it has been generally avoided by science because the soul has not yet been scientifically explained. And not until Stephen Hawking’s recent discoveries in the study of black holes, has there been any suggestion of life being ‘eternal’. Hawking’s observations of black holes, and his ability to come up with an explanation of the universe that connects Einstein’s theory of General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics (two previously conflicting theories), have become very compelling evidence in the scientific community.
Whereas it was thought that nothing, including light, could escape the gravitational pull of a black hole once it got close enough, Hawking showed that space was filled with positive and negatively charged particles, and that the positive energy particles, stronger and faster than any others known, were not pulled in, but instead ‘radiated out’ into space from the event horizon of a black hole. The phenomenon is called “Hawking Radiation”.
This is where a connection can be made between science and the soul. If there is a relationship between positive energy and eternity, it occurs at this point in scientific discovery. Conscious energy in the form of positive thought waves produces particles of energy smaller and faster than light itself – matter that defies Einstein’s law of gravity and transitions into the realm of quantum physics. If a black hole destroys all matter except the conscious, positive energy particles, then a parallel can be drawn between ‘science’ and ‘religion’ -- in the existence of the soul. In this aspect, science does not dismiss the religious belief in the soul, but affirms it.
In simpler, more practical language one could say, “To stay out of the hole, you have to think positive”.
Comments
It is exactly this kind of anti-science thought process that has eaten away at the foundation of science by spiritualist who "wrap baloney with the bacon" of science.
If you so desperately wish to have science confirm your "FAITH" in the soul, then start spending a little less time writing this fluff, and a bit more time writing up test for your hypothesis, and apply a little scientific method to your ideas.
Good intentions, which no doubt this author intends, line the path to hell. You can't dumb down, or bind astrophysics, to spiritual ideas without dragging both down to the bottom. Get real, there is no science of the soul....
"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine" - J. B. S. Haldane
My friend, there is a science to everything, it's just that we haven't uncovered it all - yet. I assume from your negative comment, that that you have no explanation for the soul whatsoever. It's likely you don't even believe in its existence. Hell may be right down that vortex, so be careful you don't get to close.
That's what this article needed a heavy ....the real scientific mind to explain the process. If the critic had read Alfred North Whitehead or even Einstein he/she would be able to draw some value from this article. The mind is as essential to physics as any instrument available . Einstein relied heavily on thought experiment (and most likely plagiarism) to arrive at uncertainty. If God made the universe from nothing think how grand it would have been if he would have had something to work with.
The critic is apparently confused. On the one hand he/she denies the existence of the soul, ridicules faith, and calls spirituality "baloney". But he affirms the existence of 'hell' in his third paragraph. Hmm, on what 'scientific basis' does he do this? He also seems to think bacon is superior to baloney... both of them contain nitrates that are proven to be carcinogenic.
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