Wednesday Reflection On Relativity

 

This Wednesday, we will reflect on relativity. In particular, the relativity of apparent size! Is the skyscraper small enough to fit in your eyes? Or is it large enough for you to walk inside it? Does the night sky fit in your eyes, or can outer space get traveled into? Reflections can be deceptive both in sight and mind. Except in God's mind's eye, do the skyscraper, and the universe exist? Is outer space an illusion of reflection based on our user's relativity? 

 

Relativity. We can frame the skyscraper with our hands in front of our faces and step into these tall buildings, so we accept the apparent smallness as an illusion. Looking in the mirror, we get a hint of how we get deceived. Reflections are separate from the viewed. The skyscraper gets reflected in our mind's eye, and it seems we could lift it out of the ground at a distance. Like shadows, the views in reflection get distorted by distance from us.  

 

The night sky can seem like a mere painting hanging in the sky without knowing we can go to the moon and beyond. Looking down the street, like looking up at the night sky, reveals a place at a distance reflected in our mind's eye. Sights at a distance appear smaller than the actual size. We take for granted the scenes we see are larger than they look because we can walk up to them and see the distortion ourselves. We project this holds true in outer space as well.  

 

What if the entire universe was created by an infinite mind's eye act of visualization? What if we exist in the mind of God only? The universe of particles and matter, organic life, everything just visions of God's mind's eye...What if science took two giant steps backward when it started leaving God out of the picture? What if creation is the explanation, even if not in exact details as presented in the poetic rendering in Genesis?  

 

What if outer space is an illusion based on the ability to travel about? What if the relativity based on our experience's projection is wrong? What if God has the entire world in his mind's eye? What if the universe and all therein are the products of creative visualization...Something to think about.