Where did God stand when God created everything?
In Quantum Physics the Big Bang theory has been modified. Its no longer an explode, expand, retract, repeat ad infinitum. They now put forth that when two membranes (basically universes, usually shortened to brane) touched then an opening was created which caused the empty one to receive a huge influx of matter/energy which has been expanding ever since. Id love to see that famous panting of God reaching out his finger to Adam being redone as God poking his finger thru a membrane. It also throws into question all disproves using "matter/energy cannot be destroyed or created but only converted". Magic, miracles, spirits, etc. The rule is still true but we now have a possible source we could not measure.
The trouble with the search for the Grand Unified Theory is that there are a lot of physicists relying on GUT instinct as to which direction they should follow their equations. Dont get me wrong here, I love Brane theory. But even amongst those theorists that support it there are as many versions of it as there are theorists. This is not bad, indeed it seems to be that wherever they allow their gut instincts to roam they find that they are each contributing a pixel or two toward that grand aim. But I think we are as yet a long, long way from from being able to reach even preliminary consensus on the physics that governs inter-brane energy/matter transfer.
It seems to me that when you refer to miracles, majic, spirits etc you are actually referring to something more akin to the Zero Point Field, or Quantum Matrix, which, it is propositioned, may be the fabric upon which even Branes themselves would hang. Remember Branes cannot exist in multiples without there being some medium in which they all coexist. It appears, from some recent papers that have been published, that Brane structure as inferred from the Background Microwave Survey must be held together by Cosmic Strings, which were largely ignored in favour of the previously competing Brane theory. Cosmic Strings, (not to be confused with " Superstrings", the tiny quantum level vibrating strings, though they me be intimately related as I will explain later), are funny things to get ones head round. The super dense matter they are made of is held in exactly the same state that it was "locked" into in the first few billionths of a second after the Big Bang, (or the time when point of contact was made between the two colliding Branes) at the end period of initial inflation. This composition is in defiance of many of the fundamental laws as they hold in the rest of our universe. Finding one would not only prove Brane theory and the Zero Point Field but allow a glimpse into the dynamics of inter-brane exchanges. Cosmic strings are not infinite. They can be many billions of light years long, (and only a proton thick), but they do have beginnings and ends. Could it be that Supermassive Black Holes are what it takes to cap the primordial energy they contain? Certainly the physics demand that some very special conditions must exist at either end. Supermassive Black Holes must be a prime candidate. I have not seen this postulated yet but I will explain why.
In experiments using the rare isotope of Helium-3 supercooled to two thousandths of a degree above absolute zero we can create a superfluid that assumes very special properties. It is a featureless, smooth exotic liquid that flows with zero resistance and even defies the laws of gravity and can flow "up". There is only one place in the observable universe where you find such conditions that a superfluid can naturally exist. A Black Hole. In these experiments when the helium-3 is "flash" supercooled it forms within its structure, for a very short time, filaments that are identical to what Super String theorists propose their strings should look like. As the cooling gets colder they disappear. Only a black hole can "cap" this amount of energy.
My thinking is that the Quantum Matrix is the repository, or library, of the possible states that matter/energy can take. I believe, this is only my gut theory, that they are limited but not by scale. In fact I think the multiverse is probably a repetition of the same laws but the scale of magnitude is altered. A bit like Russian dolls. And when you consider that a Black Hole that was the proposed size of our entire "local" universe would have about the same mass as that we observe in our local universe you just have to add 2+2 and get....you guessed it 42!!
If this is all true I believe it provides compelling evidence for the non-existence of God. Who needs God when you have a very few fundamental forces or laws. And just as an aside if God created these forces/laws then he did himself out of a job and promptly disinvented himself as he couldn't hack being obsolete.
Why is the answer to God that we cannot fathom God?
In Quantum Physics they have settled into 10+1 dimensions (10 dimensions with laws and one of chaos which is required for balance). The 1 dimensional life (plants and non-moving microbes) are impacted by ocassional contact with 2 dimensional creatures (microbes living on one surface with an X,Y movement). Also 2D creatures have contact from 3d (the animals we know which understand X,Y,Z worlds of left/right/up/down). The 3D creatures of the earth have occassional contact with the 4D creatures (thats us, X,Y,Z, and time). In each case, the level above is unfathomable. A bear in the woods experiences man but with no understanding of time is unable to fathom the actions of man.
So far, thats 4 of the 10 dimensions. That alone should spark some interest. What if angels are 6D? What if God is 10D? And thats not even mentioning the possibilities of 11D (Cthulhu?)
Here I think you misunderstand how the dimensions fold. Plants and even the tiniest of microbes live in the same 3+time dimensions as we do, (I believe we actually live in all, if thats how many there are, but most are so tiny we could not see them even if we were equipped to do so, which we are not). I think you are confusing orders of magnitude with dimensional space and anthropomorphising fathomability onto organisms that bear no concept of them. This creates false thinking. I personally believe that both exist, multiple dimensions and degrees of magnitude. And I believe that the same former is a property of all the latter. Really if you want to understand all the notions of how supernatural ideas, spirits, even memories in our own brains, (which have physically not one cell in them from the brains we had a decade ago), then all notions of dimensions can be ignored. I think such information is recorded somehow in the Zero Point Field. The web upon which all the dimensions, realities, branes, universes etc hang. Time, as we perceive it is an illusion. Remove it and all supernatural occurences have an explanation. The ability of a quantum superstring to be anywhere at any time containing any information. If God was in control of such a communication system then there would be no need for all the crazy books that purport to carry "his will". We would all know it instantly, whenever he chose. So all the books which claim divine origin are simply the works of man, as I always state.
Tao