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. 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 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
