end of everything
17 - 10/22 /17:39
The NYTimes Book Review’s 100 most notable books of 2020 includes The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Dr Katie Mack—theoretical astrophysicist at North Carolina State University. She writes that just as the universe had a beginning, it is sure to end. “At the very least, there will be a transition that for all intents and purposes destroys everything.”
As a scientific materialist she claims that at some point in our cosmic future it will not have mattered that any of us ever lived. It is her considered scientific opinion that the universe will, more likely than not, fade into a cold, dark, empty nothing. And everything that everyone has ever done will be utterly lost.
As a scientific materialist she claims that at some point in our cosmic future it will not have mattered that any of us ever lived. It is her considered scientific opinion that the universe will, more likely than not, fade into a cold, dark, empty nothing. And everything that everyone has ever done will be utterly lost.
Hiranya Peiris, cosmologist at University College London, sums this up as “sad.” She explains, “I don’t know what else to say about it. I give talks where I mention that this is probably the fate of the universe, and people have cried.”
However, not every scientist sees only doom.
Nima Arkani-Hamed—theorist at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study—opines, “At the absolute deepest level, whether or not people explicitly admit to thinking about it (and if they don’t, they’re all the poorer for it) … If you think there’s a purpose to life, I don’t know how to find one that doesn’t connect to something that transcends our little mortality. The eternal is very important. It’s very, very, very important.”
Jonathan Pritchard—cosmologist, Imperial College London—finds hope in the idea of some other distant, unconnected region. “Somewhere out there, there is a multiverse where stuff is always going on.” He likes to think that somewhere there’s an eternal multiverse party.
The Bible promises an eternal multiverse party, but it’s beyond our reach. So God entered our 3+1 dimensional reality and using simple stories and 1st century terminology, explained a multiverse reality in a way that even illiterate people could understand.
According to Jesus the multiverse exists. Our material world is just one part of God’s creation. There exists a totally different reality Jesus identified as the kingdom of heaven. He invites you to join Him there. But you can’t get there on your own. We have to depend upon Jesus. ~
Blessings,
Dan Nygaard