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The Spirituality of Science

I will never be mistaken for a Physicist, but I have done
enough reading on the subject to get a good feel for how
the universe, at least fundamentally, came to be and now
exists. In all of my reading in all the descriptions of the
known universe there seems to be a common thread
involving the concept of... energy.

Like "The Force" in the popular Star Wars stories, energy
seems to be at the root of pretty much everything in our
known existence. It is everything to us and powers
everything we do, see, and feel. It is pretty obvious that
without it, there would be no human existence.

Albert Einstein theorized (and proved mathematically) in
1905 that all energy was really just another form of mass
(which we are made of), and includes pretty much
everything tangible, and some things that perhaps aren't so
tangible. The theory was proved empirically when the
world's first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945
on the plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range in New
Mexico.

But was that the first atomic-style explosion in the universe?
Not by a long-shot. Our sun — and all active stars — are
apparently nothing but big balls of hydrogen atoms
exploding through atomic fusion into helium atoms,
releasing massive amounts of energy that runs the entire
earth and everything on it.

This leads us to the Big-Bang Theory, which is the highly
accepted scientific explanation of the birth of the entire
universe. You guessed it, it all happened when densely
packed energy — apparently all of it that there would ever
be in the universe — expanded explosively into all the

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