History of the Universe, Big Bang, Gravity, Time, Space

The Miraculous History of the Universe

When God separated light from darkness, the Big Bang created our universe.

Made of light, matter creates gravity by pushing multidimensional boundaries.

Are black holes boundaries between dimensions?

Advances in technology and our capabilities in sensing the features and dynamics of the universe are allowing modern astronomy to expose the connection between the Bible and the cosmos. We should all be reminded that divine guidance is at the core of scientific discovery and the creation of our expanding universe.

The theory of relativity and the amazing revelations that followed would eventually inspire Albert Einstein to logically rationalize the reality of intelligent design. From the vast reaches of outer space, to the sub-atomic vibrating waves of light that create all matter, we now know they are both a part of the multidimensional universe that lies within the vast electromagnetic spectrum. These features have been described in the Bible for thousands of years.

As modern quantum theory and astronomy progress, there are many verses in the Bible that continue to gain greater significance. Written about the the land of Uz over 4000 years ago, the Old Testament book of Job mentions an ironic reference to the Earth as a planet in the empty void of outer space.

"He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;
he suspends the earth over nothing." - Job 26:7 (NIV)

To understand the reality of our universe, we must have an open mind. We must accept that our traditional material perspective must be forgotten. As mentioned throughout the Bible, there are invisible realms that we cannot measure or truly comprehend. We must now have faith in the math that teaches us that invisible dimensions, matter made of light, warping time, bending space and quantum entanglements really do exist.

"For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth,

visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities,

all things were created through him and for him." - Colossians 1:16 (ESV)

As the Bible explains, the universe was created by God's word. His omnipotent mind and belief inspired all creation. Interestingly, if one combines all the matter and antimatter in the universe, the only thing left over is pure energy. This energy exemplifies a universe created within the mind of God and the true illusion of all physical matter made of light.

For example: If you could magically travel at the speed of light and live long enough to go in a straight line for a billion years to try to reach the edge of the universe, you would discover that you are still no closer to the edge. The combined gravity of the objects littered across the universe are bending space to the point that no matter where you go, all distant objects will still be traveling away from you, as if you are in the middle. Due to the combined gravity of the cosmos, the expanse of outer space, in fact, is an illusion that is warped like a sphere.

Called 'inflation', the universe expands after the big bang.

The Big Bang

As brilliant as Albert Einstein was in creating the theory of General Relativity, he still thought that the universe was finite, static and that it had no beginning.

Unknown to most today, in 1927, a Belgian Catholic priest named Georges Lemaitre corrected several of Einstein's most complex equations to expose the reality that the universe was not static.

It was actually expanding!

Lemaitre's work eventually led to the Big Bang theory. The science of physics was mathematically proving that the Biblical story of creation was correct in that there was a defined beginning to our universe.

As evidence has been collected and studied over the last ninety years, a unifying belief in the science community has continued to be that the universe was created at the moment of the proverbial Big Bang. As the Big Bang narrative of creation has become popular across the scientific World, there has been little secular publicity regarding the fact that the Bible refers to the big bang, and the waves of energy (light) that this created when our universe began.

The Bible and the Universe

Discussed in greater detail on the Physics webpage, the observer effect and the emerging quantum theory concept called String Theory, are both exposing that our universe is made out of waves of light energy.

Interestingly, this is exactly what the bible says in the book of Genesis 1 :3, explaining that the first thing that God created was light:

“Let there be light,” and there was light"

Light became reality at the very moment the Big Bang occurred as the physical universe exploded into existence. This expansion continues today.

It is now understood that visible matter (stars, planets, elements) only makes up about 5% of all the matter in the universe. Evidence implies that there is a mysterious invisible glue called dark matter (discussed further down the page), that holds galaxies together as well as an invisible energy, called dark energy, causing the universe to rapidly expand. We will discuss these invisible, yet powerful forces further down this webpage.

Verse 4 in Genesis Chapter 1 tells us:

"And God separated the light from the darkness."

Verse 4 is once again scientifically accurate because visible matter (light) and invisible dark matter separated to create our universe at the point of the proverbial Big Bang.

"I form light and create darkness;

I make well-being and create calamity;

I am the Lord, who does all these things." -Isaiah 45:7

It is also noteworthy that antimatter amazingly amounts to the same volume across the universe as matter. To be specific, it is estimated that for every billion particles of antimatter, there are a "billion and one" particles of matter. That is incredibly close as this difference creates the proverbial dust that we witness from our three-dimensional perspective.

"As a father shows compassion to his children,
so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust" - Psalm 103:13-14

In Genesis 2:7 it says:

"Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground

and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being."

The Bible often refers to God (or Christ) as the light. This comparison is interesting since it has multiple meanings. God represents light in a proverbial sense in referring to a message of truth and justice. But God also literally represents light in a physical aspect since light energy has also been discovered as a particle of matter. Exemplified by the observer effect, the science of physics has exposed that light becomes matter at the subatomic molecular level when observed by a conscious being. As previously mentioned, if the universal amount of matter and antimatter are equal, then does anything in our three dimensional perspective really exist when both are added up?

Many physicists now calculate that the universe exists as an enormous holographic image or simulation. A growing number of physicists postulate that the universe exists within the mind of God. In other words, God is the conscious matrix that binds the entire universe together. This concept is actually mentioned in the Bible.

“He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” - Colossians1:17

This verse is ironically summed up best by Max Planck, the renowned theoretical physicist and originator of quantum theory, when he once said:

“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force….

We must assume behind this force the existence

of a conscious and intelligent Mind.

This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”

— Max Planck, 1944

The weight of the sun creates a well in the multidimensional membrane boundary.

Gravity, Space Time and Multiple Dimensions

Example: Let us say that the top surface of a mattress is made of dark matter plasma (potentially a dividing line between two dimensions). If one were to place a bowling ball (as an example of our Sun) on this mattress, it would make a deep depression (called a gravity well). And let us compare marbles to planets by throwing them on to the mattress. The depression would pull the marbles (or planets) towards the bowling ball while also bending time and light energy.

From our perspective, gravity has long been known as a consistent force. In recent decades, evidence from quantum mechanics is changing our understanding of the laws of gravity as we now know it has an influence on time, while being affected by a mysterious invisible material called dark matter. Thus, an object like a planet will push against the invisible plasma of dark matter, exposing boundaries between unseen dimensions. So, the larger and denser an object is, the deeper a Gravity Well becomes. It is this pressure between an object and dark matter that has capability to bend time.

This means that our Earthly perspective of time in a linear since does not apply to the universe or the Bible. When the Bible says that the Earth and human beings were created in just six days, all options are still open when translated with the true timeline of the creation of the universe.

The relation between gravity and dark matter are a good example that I like to use when describing a universe with multiple dimensions. Dark matter is often referred to as an invisible plasma that works with gravity as objects in the material world move around.

Gravity Wells: Click for larger image

While our sun and the planets in our solar system will each create their own gravity wells as seen in the image above, the extreme gravity created by a black hole will take the mattress analogy to a new level. The incredible gravity that exists in the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is so heavy and dense that it is theorized to tear an opening into other dimensions similar to a drain in a bathtub.

Our solar system rotates like water going down a sink drain where the inner planets rotate around the sun in a much shorter time span as compared to the outer planets. For instance, Mercury has an 88-day year, while Neptune takes 164 years to rotate around the sun.

For decades enormous galaxies confused the scientific community because the vast outer spirals that contained billions of stars and planets rotated like spokes on a wheel around the center. Scientists couldn't figure out what was holding galaxies in place. How could the far edges move around the center in the same time frame and at a much faster rate to keep up with the inner objects.

This conundrum produced confusion in the scientific astronomy community until dark matter was theorized. It is now understood by a majority of scientists that an invisible material we now call

Dark matter holds the galaxy spirals together acting as an undetectable glue.

Ony about 5% of our 3D universe is visible/measurable matter (meaning that it emits, absorbs, or reflects light). 95% of our universe is undetectable. This includes dark matter, roughly 27%, which acts as cosmic cement, using gravity to hold galaxies spirals together, or dark energy, roughly 68%, which acts as a repulsive force that accelerates the expansion of the universe.

Interpreting Dark Matter and Dark Energy

First, we must understand that both dark matter and dark energy are still theories. Do they really exist as described?

Similar to String Theory, scientific tests like the 'dual slit experiment' prove the observer effect

duality of matter as a wave and a particle. So, even though strings are still a theory, there are proven tests that verify crucial aspects as sound evidence. For dark matter and dark energy, the evidence is that an unknown force is holding galaxies together and an unknown force is mysteriously making the universe expand faster than expected.

The main reason dark matter and dark energy are invisible is because they do not emit, absorb, or reflect light. They also don't interact with electromagnetism or the strong/weak nuclear forces.

The only force that dark matter interacts with is gravity. Dark matter appears to have mass as it also warps spacetime similar to regular matter. Astronomers believe this because it responds to gravitational wells (see illustration in previous section). As the illustration displays, these are regions where a space-time membrane is curved by the mass of large stellar objects like planets and stars to create gravity.

This means that dark matter, as an example, will follow the same laws of physics as visible matter, which coincides with Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

Are Dark Matter and Dark Energy Mentioned in the Bible?

The Bible has many verses that reference darkness. Darkness has multiple meanings depending on the context and perspective of the reader. It is often used in the absence of God or the truth. In astronomical terms it can be God's invisible power, control in unseen realms, holding matter together and creating the expansion of the universe.

Modern science simply calls these two astronomical forces dark because they are not seen and are undetectable as they are only theorized mathematically and only detectable by the physical interaction with spiraling galaxies and our expanding universe.

In the creation book of Genesis darkness is mentioned several times.

"Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

And God saw that the light was good.

Then he separated the light from the darkness..."

- Genesis 1:3-5 (NLT)

Regarding the invisible nature of dark matter and dark energy:

"By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command,

so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible."

- Hebrews 11:3 (NIV)

The Bible also discusses that God's invisible power holds all creation together similar to what secular science currently calls 'Dark Matter'.

"for through him God created everything
in the heavenly realms and on earth.
He made the things we can see
and the things we can’t see—
such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world.
Everything was created through him and for him.
He existed before anything else,
and he holds all creation together."

- Colossians 1:16-17 (NLT)

Regarding 'Dark Energy', a good example of the expanding universe can be found in the Book of Isaiah where it refers to the stretching of the heavens.

"God, the Lord, created the heavens and stretched them out.
He created the earth and everything in it..."

- Isaiah 42:5 (NLT)

Astronomy can be very exciting visually with the majestic wonder and beauty of planets, galaxies and nebulas. It can also be very mysterious and haunting with black holes, supernovas and the great expanse of our universe.

As scientific discovery advances with more astonishing revelations, mankind will continue to be amazed with breathtaking evidence and related theories. While evidence and theories alike may point us in the right direction, mankind will never grasp the unconventional reality of the universe. One thing that can be guaranteed is that our understanding of our universe will always remain a great mystery.

“He has made everything beautiful in its time.

He has also set eternity in the human heart;

yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”

- Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV)

Lastly, what secular science calls dark matter and dark energy, even big bangs and black holes, may all very well be explained by the scriptures in the Bible through God's omnipotent control. Secular scientific descriptions in relation will often come down to a difference in terminology, semantics and giving credit where divine credit is due.

The Helix Nebula, known as 'The Eye of God'.