Dear Honey
Thank
you for your comment and question you posted below my article:
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 different 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 person trying to learn as much as possible.
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. 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 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
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 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 think of a spiritual birth as much as scientists
even till today must always associate life with water. But unfortunately, I do
not think that it is necessary for all life to require water. Here’s my
explanation:
https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=does+life+require+waterI
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. 2 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.”
3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can
see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
4 “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!”
5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can
enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh
gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7 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.”
9 “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
that knowledge we gained from universities
Back to
your comment and question why most people cannot see beyond this physical
world? Why are we so myopic like frogs in a well?
I have
just explained and answered. I too looked in awe at the Intelligent
Designer’s handiwork of His Science and His Creation
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
lim ju
boo
Malaysia
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