Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Why Does People Cannot Understand Worlds Beyond Theirs: A Question A Reader Asked?

 

 

Dear Honey

Thank you for your comment and the question you posted below my article here:

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2022/12/seek-not-physical-health-or-wealth-but.html


What a sweet name you have, and I am sure you are very sweet as honey and charming in return for your sweet compliments about my unworthy self.

I am so happy you love my country. I hope you shall return many times over to explore many natural beauties and our people as Malaysians of difference races and cultures we have to offer you.   

Okay, I really do not have those telescopic visions or sights you described of me. I am just an ordinary student so to speak, trying to learn.

I am like many people trying to visualize what lies beyond our world in another dimension, and I don’t think any of us can cross over to another world into another dimension to be certain except when we die.

Thank you anyway for your compliments.

I think most people are far too busy to bother what’s going on beyond this world. All they know is to earn a living in their daily lives for themselves and for their families, and that there are many stars in the sky.  But I don’t think they have any clue why there are so many stars on a clear night. Even I was able to see the Milky Way like a “River of Lights” from one end of the horizon to the other on only a few occasions due to our perpetually cloudy tropical skies.  I just watched at its immense beauty in awe, but I am unsure of others.

You can now imagine how many worlds are there in this Universe if you can imagine the Universe stretches from one end of heaven to the other 93 billion light years across. That’s 8.8 ^ 23 km (88 followed by 22 zeros) km across.

Within this space we estimate there may be as many as 100 trillion, trillion (1 followed by 26 zeros) other worlds out there we cannot even see with our most powerful ground-based telescopes, as well as dozens of orbiting space telescopes that includes gamma, x- rays, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwave and radio telescopes that work in multiple frequency bands

Space telescopes that collect particles, such as cosmic ray nuclei and/or electrons, as well as instruments that aim to detect gravitational waves, are also listed. 

The Earth-based telescopes would include the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), that is the world’s largest optical telescope with a mirror diameter of 10.4 metres (34.1 feet) located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma (2,326 metres [7,631 feet]) in the Canary Islands of Spain.

The Tianyan or “Eye of Heaven” which is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, is situated in a karst depression in Pingtang, Guizhou province in southwest China. All these telescopes combined give us much more knowledge about the heavens than before Galileo time, but still just a teeny-tiny bit compared to the hidden mysteries of this horrendously gigantic Universe 

Despite the collective efforts by all these telescopes, we still have not detected any world like ours, and there is no way we can do this except discover new galaxies in the far reaches of this Observable Universe  

At best we can detect exoplanets that are planets outside our Solar System by direct imaging, astrometry, radial velocity, transit event observation, and microlensing

The number of other worlds is so immeasurably huge that often I need to use sands in all the seashores in the world to compare. What we found was the number of worlds similar or dissimilar to ours in the Observable Universe is even far more than all the sands of this world. 

For instance, if  we add more sands at 4.3 x 10^25 grains to cover up Earth up to 0.8 metres thick all over the surface of this Earth including beneath the oceans, and high up over the Himalaya range, not to say the deserts, this works out to be 1.2 X 10^26 / 4.3 x 10^25 = 2.8 times more stars in heaven than in all the sands on the seashores and deserts and elsewhere.

But if we confine the number of grains of sand to only the seashores of the world then the estimated number of grains of sand would be at 7.5 x 10^18 (seven quintillion, five hundred quadrillion).

This means the number of stars out number all the sands in all the seashores of the world by 67 times which is an awful lot

See details here:

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=sands+on+earth

How then can we expect most people in this world except astronomers to understand the horrendous immensity of the Universe? Understandably, their only world is this teeny-teeny tiny, tiny world they live in, and that is far, far smaller than frogs living in a water well. There is absolutely no way they can have any physical vision, let alone spiritual vision, nether the knowledge nor the wisdom to understand the immense beauty of God, the Maker and Creator of all heavens

“I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the seashore: thy seed shall possess the gates of their …” (Genesis 22:17).

The Psalmist David in praise sang:

“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handiwork” (Psalm 19:1)

Even the most learned astronomer may have knowledge to understand the incalculably immensity of the Universe, but certainly not the spiritual wisdom to comprehend. At most, the most learned astronomer or cosmologist can only look in awe, but maybe cannot understand much unless given the guidance and wisdom by his Creator Himself. But they need to pray constantly and sincerely for this gift of wisdom, and not knowledge alone.

Having said that, a lot of learned people during Jesus’ time too could not understand even simple things in life until Jesus had to use illustrations and simple stories called parables to make them understand. The most glaring example was Nicodemus, the chief of the Jews, He was so learned that he could not understand the meaning of being born again. He thought it was a physical rebirth. Never did Nicodemus thought of a spiritual birth 

Likewise, if I were to tell you that water is not require for life, you would immediately be surprised just like Jesus told the learned chief of the Jews Nicodemus that a man need to be born again to enter the kingdom of God.

In that narrative where Jesus told Nicodemus to be born again before he can enter heaven, here are the verses in John 3:3–15

Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”

Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”

“How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”

Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So, it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

“How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.

10 “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things? 11 Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still, you people do not accept our testimony. 12 I have spoken to you of earthly things, and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man. 14 Just as Moses lifted the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”

You can see now the importance of spiritual knowledge and spiritual wisdom, and not all those knowledge we gained from universities

You would immediately argue how can that be when everyone including scientists and the layman all agree and know  that water is crucially important for the existence of life, so important that when astronomers and astrobiologists  explore the  Moon, Mars or any  extrasolar planets, the first criterion they look for is the existence of water in that planet in a concept called the Goldilocks Zone in which  the orbital range of a planet  around a star must not be too hot or too cold  on the planetary surface and the atmospheric pressure must be right so that liquid water can be found to support life.

Sometimes the Goldilocks Zone is called the circumstellar habitable zone or habitable zone. However, this is true in as far as life elsewhere outside this world is based exactly on the same requirements and principles as we know them here on Earth. But is this necessary out of some 100 trillion, trillion other worlds out there across 93 billion light years in diameter within our Observable Universe, that they too must follow exactly what we know here, especially on the existence of life and water in their worlds? Who do we think we are that they need to follow us here? 

Likewise, if I were to tell you that water is not required for life, you would immediately be surprised just like Jesus told the learned chief of the Jews Nicodemus that a man needs to be born again to enter the kingdom of God.

You would immediately argue how can that be when everyone including scientists and the layman all agree and know  that water is crucially important for the existence of life, so important that when astronomers and astrobiologists  explore the  Moon, Mars or any  extrasolar planets, the first criterion they look for is the existence of water in that planet in a concept called the Goldilocks Zone in which  the orbital range of a planet  around a star must not be too hot or too cold  on the planetary surface and the atmospheric pressure must be right so that liquid water can be found to support life.

But unfortunately, as a scientist and a research doctor myself I do not think I need to follow the thinking of other scientists, astonomers, astrobiologists or anybody at all that it is necessary  for water to be present for life to exist elsewhere. Here’s my explanation:

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=water+and+life

Another more important reason why most people cannot see and understand is because we become spiritually blind asking and seeking for the wrong desires such asking for wealth, power, longevity and good physical health instead of asking for forgiveness, guidance and wisdom...

Remember, in Gibeon, God appeared to King Solomon in a dream asked him what he wanted, Solomon asked for wisdom, and God gave him both wisdom and wealth to rule over his people.

 “And God said unto him, because thou hast asked this thing (wisdom), and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment.

 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.

And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days”.

(1 Kings 3:1-13 KJV)

Another more important reason why most people cannot see and understand is because we become spiritually blind asking and seeking for the wrong desires such asking for wealth, power, longevity and good physical health instead of asking for forgiveness, guidance and wisdom...

Remember, in Gibeon, God appeared to King Solomon in a dream and asked him what he wanted, Solomon asked for wisdom, and God gave him both wisdom and wealth to rule over his people.


 “And God said unto him, because thou hast asked this thing (wisdom), and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment.

Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days”.

(1 Kings 3:1-13 KJV).

Hence, in answering your question, it depends on what we ask God in our daily prayers. Naturally most people will crave and ask for wealth and long life instead of seeking spiritual wealth and wisdom, unto them none will be given, and they will remain spiritually blind. 

That probably is why most people cannot see beyond this physical world, and why are we so myopic like frogs in a well as you said. 

 I too looked in awe at the Intelligent Designer’s handiwork of His Science and His Creation, and I realize I know little.   

That’s why I prefer to invest in my eternal spiritual soul to enrich it so that I can understand better, rather than be myopic with earthly riches or earthly knowledge that pale into emptiness against the vastness and wealth of heavens  

I hope I have answered, and thank you once again for your comment and question  

References:

Seek not physical health but spirtual wealth:

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2022/12/seek-not-physical-health-or-wealth-but.html

No of stars in heavens vs. sands on earth


https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=sands+on+earth

 

Can life exist without water?

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=water+and+life

lim ju boo

Malaysia



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