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by God,” is a repeated theme in the Bible. For example: “I will not again curse the
ground any more for man’s sake … neither will I again smite any more everything
living, as I have done. While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold
and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease” (Gen. 8:21–
22; refer also to Gen. 1:14, 18; Jer. 31:34–35 and 33:25; and to Job 38:33).

7.3 The Unity of Energy and Space
While physics and related cosmology theories are complex and still evolving, there
is no doubt that the basic characterization of “force,” as already articulated at the

time of Newton , still holds today: all forces need to be defined in terms of size and
direction.
A convenient and commonly accepted way to realize this characterization is
by expressing any force as a vector . In physics and engineering, the word “vector”
typically refers to a quantity that has close relationship to spatial coordinates; a vec-
tor is informally described as an object having both “magnitude” and “direction.”
In other words, a vector is a “directed number” (or a set of directed numbers)!
Though this characterization of force was already used by Newton , the term
“vector,” as nowadays used in all branches of science and engineering, was first

introduced, according to The Oxford English Dictionary, in 1864, by W. R.
Hamilton (1805–65).
Let us observe how the Hebrew language relates to the concept of force. There
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are many words for force, like koach, oz, otzmah, and others. However, among
such words that describe “force,” one has a unique position. The reason for this
is that this word alone is intended, in both its singular and in its plural forms, to
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imply “God” (or “gods”). We introduced this word earlier: El (or Elohim, in the
plural form). The connection between the two concepts, “God” and “force,” is
self-evident: We perceive God (or the “gods,” as in ancient times, premonotheism)

to have all forces under his control. Naturally, God is identified with “forces,” just
as the ancient Greeks have done (for example, Prometheus had control over the
force of fire).

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A less obvious aspect of the Hebrew word for force, el, is that the same word
also means “toward” or “in the direction of” (see reference to this word also in
section 6.1).

In other words, for the Hebrew language, just as mandated by the field concept
of modern physics, “force” has meaning only when direction is also intended:
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“force” <= el => “toward, to” (direction)