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Although the fact that everything we experience is a totality of perceptions formed inside
our brains has been scientifically proven, some people still claim that they see the originals of
these images that exist outside our brains. However, they will never be able to prove this claim.
As mentioned before, light, sound or colors do not exist outside of our brains. Light only exists
outside in the form of energy waves and packets of energy, and we only become aware of light
when it hits the retina. Similarly, there is no sound. There are only energy waves. Sound only
forms when these energy waves reach our ears and are subsequently transmitted to our brains.
There is no color outside, either. When we say "there is no color" people might think of a view
of black, white or gray. In fact, these are also colors. In the world outside of our brains even the
colors of black, white and gray do not exist. Only energy waves in varying strength and
frequency exist, and these energy waves are only converted into colors through the cells in the
eye and the brain.
Quantum physics is another branch of science which shows that the claims of those who say
that they see the original of matter are unjustified. The most important truth discovered by
quantum physics, which leaves materialists speechless, is that matter is 99.9999999% empty. In
his studies of physics and psychology, Peter Russell often makes comments about human
consciousness. In an essay adapted from his book, From Science To God, Russell explains this
truth thusly:
Take, for example, our ideas as to the nature of matter. For two thousand years it was
believed that atoms were tiny balls of solid matter-a model clearly drawn from everyday
experience. Then, as physicists discovered that atoms were composed of more elementary,
subatomic, particles (electrons, protons, neutrons, and suchlike), the model shifted to one of
a central nucleus surrounded by orbiting electrons-again a model based on experience.
An atom may be small, a mere billionth of an inch across, but these subatomic particles are
a hundred-thousand times smaller still. Imagine the nucleus of an atom magnified to the size
of a grain of rice. The whole atom would then be the size of a football stadium, and the
electrons would be other grains of rice flying round the stands. As the early twentieth-
century British physicist Sir Arthur Eddington put it, "matter is mostly ghostly empty space"-
99.9999999 percent empty space, to be a little more precise.
With the advent of quantum theory, it was found that even these minute subatomic
particles were themselves far from solid. In fact, they are not much like matter at all-at least
nothing like matter as we know it. They can't be pinned down and measured precisely. They
are more like fuzzy clouds of potential existence, with no definite location. Much of the time
they seem more like waves than particles. (Peter Russell, The Mystery of Consciousness and
the Meaning of Light, 12 Oct 2000,
http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/futureedition/From_Science-To-God.htm)
We can thus see that science shows us that beyond the confines of our brain, there are only
energy waves and energy packets. Beyond our brain there is no light, no sound and no color.
Additionally, atoms and subatomic particles that form a material are actually loose groups of
energy. As a result, material is comprised of space.
In reality, God creates matter through a vision with these qualities.