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CHAPTER 7 UNITY, UNITY, ALL AROUND
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Efforts to integrate all these into all-encompassing theories may be pinpointed
by certain defining moments and stages in the history of modern physics. These

highlights have been expounded in section 4.3.
The heroic attempts by physicists to combine all phenomena of nature into a
unifying theory can hardly be distinguished from the basic philosophy of mono-
theism . Although one may doubt that most physicists would agree with this
contention, it seems as inescapable conclusion that scientists of physics, for the
last century and a half (unwillingly or unnoticeably, combining mathematics with
experimental observations) have done their best to provide scientific evidence for

monotheism—with a good degree of success.

How is the unity of all forces reflected in the Hebrew language?

Devoid of any aspiration for a scientific statement, the Hebrew language none-
theless insinuates unity for all forces of nature by using the plural of “force” as
the name of God, yet relating to this plural-tense word in the singular, as befit a

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monotheistic faith. The Hebrew language relates to God by the name Elohim.
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This word is linguistically the plural of el or eloah (both meaning force).
Justifiably, it is the only name for God used throughout the story of creation, in

the first chapter of Genesis. Yet the Bible always relates to this plural word in the
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singular—as, for example, in “In the beginning God [Elohim ] created [bara, in
the singular] the heaven and the earth” (Gen. 1:1).
It is as though the Bible, via the Hebrew language, conveys a message: “All
these forces appear in the plural, as the linguistic structure of the word implies, yet
they are indeed manifestations of one.”
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Interestingly, the only time in the Bible where Elohim is referenced in the
plural is in the verse “And he received the gold at their hand, and fashioned it
with a graving tool and made it a molten calf: and they said, These are thy gods
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[elohecha ], O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.” “And the

Lord said to Moses … they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped
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it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, These are thy gods [elohecha ], O Israel,

which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt” (Exod. 32: 4, 7, 8).
This incidence insinuates that, Bible-wise, the only time when “the forces”
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(Elohim) start to look not as one but as separate (“these are”) is when the mono-
theistic faith, the perception of the oneness of God, is weakened.
Or when scientists have not yet succeeded proving the oneness of all forces …
Comments
All of modern-physics attempts to unify the forces of nature rely on the basic
mathematically unprovable concept of the existence of laws of nature. That such
laws do exist, or that the world is governed by unbreakable regularities “promised