Thoughts
on the Divine Nature of Energy.
I
don't remember what started me thinking along these lines the other
day, but for one reason or another, I started thinking about the heat
death of the universe, and then the line of reasoning took some
interesting turns. The heat death of the universe is also known as
maximum entropy, and I will start this from there.
Maximum
entropy is when the water grows completely still and there are no
more ripples in the pond. This isn't to say that the water is no
more, it has simply achieved equilibrium and is able to be at rest.
The same is true of all the energy in the universe. What we call the
heat death of the universe would be all the energy achieving
equilibrium so that it is evenly spread out. In other words, energy
in its natural, undisturbed state is static. It wants to stop moving
and be at rest.
Another
thing about energy is that, according to the first law of
thermodynamics, energy can be neither created nor destroyed. And,
according to modern physics, all of the manifest creation boils down
to energy in one form or another.
Perhaps
the reason why energy can be neither created nor destroyed is because
it is God Himself.
Perhaps
energy is the "physical" being of God Himself.
So,
here is my thought. To describe energy as the "physical"
being of God (for lack of a better description) at first sounds bad
because I'm equating God with a created thing. Except that the first
law of thermodynamics explicitly states that energy can be neither
created nor destroyed. It can change forms from energy to matter and
back, but you will never have more energy or less energy in existence
than you will at any given point in time. This, by necessity, means
that energy is eternal. It has no beginning and no end. It is
therefore uncreated.
To
say that energy itself is inanimate is paradoxical and problematic at
best. The presence of energy causes animation. That which is without
energy is dead. How is it possible that an inanimate "object"
is the cause and source of all life and animation?
There
is nowhere energy does not exist because all matter is also energy in
a different form, and energy transfers from point to point in waves
in various forms. Because all matter is energy in a different form,
if energy itself were intelligent, it would be in full contact with
everything and everyone at the foundational level of existence,
thereby making it omniscient. And an omnipresent intelligent energy
would by its very nature be omnipotent. Also,
energy itself must, by nature, be omnidimensional and extend outside
of our own spacetime.
If God is the foundation of all existence, and if He is eternal,
omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, and completely transcendent and
yet imminent with His creation at the same time, then doesn't energy
itself meet all of these criteria?
Furthermore,
consider the metaphors used to describe Him in
Sacred Scripture,
"God is light", "God is a consuming fire" and so
on. Consider
Moses who spent so much time in the manifest presence of God that his
face glowed so bright he had to wear a veil. Most of the encounters
with the manifested presence of God involved some kind of description
of a manifestation of energy in some way.
What
if energy itself was intelligent, compassionate, and personal?
Is
it so hard to conceive that energy itself is intelligent, personal,
and also compassionate/empathetic towards everything that is
comprised of it? We ourselves are also made of energy, and our
intelligence is comprised largely of pulses of energy moving through
organic circuitry that at its very foundational level is itself also
energy. All matter is formed from energy becoming particles out of
seemingly nothing at all, and
it can be reasonably said that matter is simply a multidimensional
disturbance of energy.
Perhaps
it isn't entirely accurate to say that energy is God Himself (and
certainly not comfortable), at least not in His totality. But,
perhaps energy is the "surface" of God like the surface of
a pond. You can see the surface of a pond, but unless the water is
crystal clear, you cannot see how deep it is or what is under that
surface.
These
are only a series of thoughts that on the surface appear relatively
logical, but they beg for even more profound questions to be asked if
the basic premise is to be given as true. I leave that for you the
reader to ponder and reflect on further.
