The truth

It is that simple:
if you think you know the truth,
you don’t.

Little Star and her Mother - part 2

Little Star is a bit upset about going on the next trip without her Mother.

- You are not there with me.

- You think so?

- Will you? Where will you be because in the previous trips I was not able to find you?

- There is no place where I am not.

- But I couldn't see you anywhere.

- That is not because of me, it is because the way you were looking

- What am I supposed to do there if I cannot know you?

- You just look for me.

- But I have you here.

- Yes, you know me here, but you don’t know you. You go there and look for me. When you will find me, you will also find you.

Little Star and her Mother - part 1

Little Star was talking to her Mother:

- In our world, there is not time so looking at my next trip I know exactly what will happen. Why is it that I still have to go?

- The trip is like a kid slide on Earth.

At first, the children are frightened to use it. Their mother has to slide with them.

After a while, she just needs to be there.

Then they learn to like it use it alone

And they use it again and again.

Each time they know exactly what will happen: they start on the top and slide fast to the bottom.

The more they use it, the more they know about it.

After a while, the will know it so well that they will go on the next adventure.

- Yes, but I am not enjoying the trips so much...

- Soon you will ... and then you will have an option to go or not go.

Does God exist? He does, according to Einstein

In 1905, a simple engineer employed as an assistant examiner at the Swiss patent office in Bern published a paper that would become one of the pillars of the modern theoretical physics. Of course, his name was Albert Einstein and the paper was the first of his two papers called The Theory of Relativity.

From this first paper, named after The Special Theory of Relativity, Einstein proved that everything is relative or better said subjective. He showed that if you are travelling in a train or sitting beside it, many physical measurements, such as time, distance and mass, vary. Contrary to common intuition, time goes slower in a fast train if you are observing the time from outside. Or even worse, if you measure something in a moving train, it would look shorter.

So, as a joke, if you take a very fast train, maybe one that Elon Musk is building, you might live longer, but you won't be as tall.

From this paper, as a corollary, in the same year, he published another paper, only three pages long, where he deduced the most famous equation of all time, E = mc2.

In this formula, E is the energy, m is the mass, and c is the speed of light, which is a constant.

From this equation, we can deduce that the energy of an object is equivalent to its mass and that, at least in theory, one can be transformed into the other, and the reverse.

Unfortunately, this would be proven right with the development of the atomic bomb that causes a huge amount of energy to be created from a small quantity of matter using a uranium chain reaction.

What does all this have to do with God?

We read in Genesis that God created the whole universe from nothing. Of course, this cannot be true as from nothing comes nothing, at least if the physics law we are used to is still valid.

But there is still another option: mass can be created from energy or, at least, so Einstein taught us.

We can assume that, at the beginning of time, all that existed was a huge amount of energy, maybe an infinite amount, and, if we like, we can call this energy God.

Then, at a certain time, through a certain process we might never understand, a cosmic event took place that converted part of this energy into everything that surrounds us.

We can call this event The Big Bang. Or we can call it The Will of God. It does not really matter.

Sources:
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Albert Einstein and the atomic bomb
Albert Einstein on Wikipedia