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God and the Superforce

During the latter part of the twentieth century the forefront of scientific research has been theoretical physics. Theoretical physics consists of the postulation and subsequent proof of the actual manner in which the universe is constructed. Most people are aware that the "stuff' of reality is made up of molecules, and that molecules are made up of atoms. Most are also aware that atoms are made of so-called particles known as protons, neutrons, and electrons.

These things were understood at the turn of the century, but with the arrival of Neils Bohr's quantum mechanics in the early part of the twentieth century, a whole new world of sub-atomic particles has opened up. As physicists began to discover and name these new particles they were looking for an underlying symmetry, a pattern that would make sense both logically and aesthetically, just as all patterns in nature seem to have an inner rhythm and beauty to them.

The Newtonian image of the atom, that of a tiny "solar system" with a sun/nucleus made up protons and neutrons, and a whirl of little planet/electrons surrounding it has now become obsolete. It now appears that what at first seemed to be three different basic types of particles, and later was understood to consist of these particles made up of, and interacting with, smaller component particles, mesons, neutrinos, quarks, and charmed particles, etc., are in fact simply one energy; one energy that is constantly transforming itself into different frequencies of vibration, spinning right and lift, up and down ... a constant flow of changing ripples and waves in one cosmic sea of energy.

Compare the description of God given by Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Nanak, in his poem "Sukhmani Sahib," The Jewel of Peace, to the quantum concept of the universe described above.

"Parbrahm ke sagle thao
Jit jit ghar rakhai taisa tin nao
Aap karan kravan-jog.

The entire Creation is One with God.
But we call its parts by different names.

Prabh bhavai soi phun hog.
God is the Doer of everything.

Pasrio aap hoe anat tarang.
Whatever He wills happens.

Lakhe na jaah Parbrahm ke rang
Jaisi mat dee taisa pargaas.

God is an ocean, pervading everywhere,
filled with endless waves of creation.

Parbrahm karta abinas."
His play cannot be described.
But each man has a vision of Him according to the light granted to him.

Guru Arjan Dev Ji, Sukhmani Sahib, Ashtapadi IX

The appearance of separate and definable "particles" is only an illusion, a trick of perception that occurs in the same manner that a baseball seems to be suspended in mid-air in a short exposure photograph, when in fact it is hurtling through the air quite fast and is, in actuality, in another place completely by the time we ever see the photograph. Even with the "high-speed photography" possible with our modern atomic accelerators such as Cern in Geneva and Fermilab in Chicago, the "snapshots" of our bubble chambers and tracking emulsions are much to slow to catch the divine dance of energy as it actually occurs. In fact, it is our minds that are too slow to catch the divine dance But it can be experienced, and this experience, beyond the limitations of time and space, beyond the mind and its symbolic and linear thinking is the experience of constant ecstasy and immense joy which is the very flow of the Anahat Shabd itself.

In addition to the illusion of separate particles of matter science is now beginning to discover that what was previously thought of as separate types or kinds of energy are really only one. The very latest concept of modern physics is the idea of a so-called "Superforce." What were previously thought to be the five basic separate energies of the universe, electricity, magnetism, weak atomic bonding force strong atomic force and gravitation, each with its own mathematical expression and laws are currently beginning to be understood as merely separate expressions of ONE force which physicists call the Superforce. These energies are constantly transforming themselves into each other, just as the "particles" of matter are constantly transforming themselves into each other.

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