In quantum mechanics, one may come across a multiple universe theory or two,
such as Multiple World Theory, and others. It could be Schrodinger's Cat,
for example. Is it actually possible that the cat in the box is both
dead, and alive at the same time, and that until one opens the box to look in,
both possibilities are valid? Then, once one observes, the probability
wave collapses into either the cat being alive, or deceased. Perhaps the
cat was/is still both dead and alive right now. Perhaps it's dead in one
universe, and alive in another. The trick is, I don't see any inkling of multiple universes as standardly
described in the Scriptures. I see multiple dimensions, but that is
different than multiple universes. In order for the above cat scenario to
actually happen, we have to add when/how it happens. When we make a decision, does that collapse multiple other universes into
ours; universes where we made all other possible decisions? Yes and no. Let's turn to the first verse of the book of Genesis: "In the beginning of God's preparing
the heavens and the earth" -Genesis 1:1 Beginning - this can denote the beginning
of linear time. Certainly Jehovah (which means 'Self Existent One')
doesn't need any time construct in which to exist. We see after the beginning, the preparing
(creation - Hebrew bara) of the heavens. This could be when God created
Aether. Aether has several different names, especially since the Michelson and
Morley experiment disproved how they thought the Luminiferous Aether behaved. Most scientists strayed from the term Aether, but many still included it in
their theories, just under different terms, and with some variations in its
properties. Other terms for Aether being: The Fabric of Space, Absolute
Space (pre-Michelson/Morley), and perhaps a field of strings in String Theory. If we see that "beginning" is
the beginning of the arrow of linear time, creating a past, moving forward to
the present, and on to the future, and we consider the heavens being created
first with Aether to create a resonance field, then we may go further to apply
other quantum-like theories to the Creation account, such as how God spoke
things into existence. The resonance of the creative voice of God would
resonate the strings in the Aetheric field to then resonate to specific string properties, leading to specific particles,
attaching to other particles to create specific molecules, which come together
to create specific matter. Now, coming back to multiple universes:
There were/are/will be multiple universes, each has/is/will collapse into
ours. There are no multiple universes and at the same time, there are a
near infinite amount of universes, all collapsing into ours. The trick
here is time - these multiple universes are all the past, the present, and the
future right now. When God created everything, he saw every
possibility, and every decision everyone would or could make. He saw
Hitler wining World War 2, and Nazi soldiers becoming a global police
state. He saw Adam choosing not to partake of the Tree of the Knowledge
of Good and Evil, which Eve still did. He saw neither Adam nor Eve
partaking of the Tree. Before our God was every possibility, and
every timeline laid out, all at once. If this is true, then man had to
fall. Adam and Eve had to sin, and Jesus Christ had to die on the cross.
Why? Because God saw every single outcome to everything
simultaneously. He saw which shirt you chose to wear today, which shoes
you chose to buy at the store, the annoyed look you gave the bad driver you
passed on the road, etc. He also saw all of your alternate choices, reactions,
and decisions in your life. In order for all the people in the
history of humanity who are God's children to be born, and then born again (saved,) all the other universes
had to collapse into this specific one: Our Universe. There is not
another me in another universe who is not saved. I was/am/always saved in every
single universe, and there is only one me. We are each our own person. There are not different us-es in different
universes, just possible, unplayed-out futures set by our making different
decisions. Salvation pervades beyond time and dimensions. It is a
universal, cosmic thing. When one truly gets saved, their
resonance changes to match that of Christ's. Christ was sinless, and when
we resonate to Him, we take on His sinless properties in relation to the
cosmos. Meanwhile, He took on all of our sins, and cancelled out our sins
with His Love and Sacrifice. Only God can do this, and He did. I'm not propounding Calvinism,
here. I'm saying every person who got saved, chose so in every scenario,
unless they died before they could do so, or never got a chance. In this
universe, every child of God gets the chance to become a child of God, and does
so. Everyone who isn’t saved and
doesn’t get saved, never chose salvation in any alternate universe scenario, either.
In order for God not to lose any of His
children (except for apostates, because we all have free will) God chose the
universe in which all of His children (who chose so) make it. This means our universe had to
include the fall of man, and the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ,
etc. Since God is not bound by his creation of
a linear time construct, nor is He limited to our four dimensions, He saw all
possibilities, sees all possibilities, and will see all possibilities - at the same "time." He chose
this universe, He is choosing this universe, and He will choose this universe,
and it is all happening right now. There are no multiple universes - just
this one, yet there are an almost endless supply of multiple universes, but
they have all collapsed into ours, and they are collapsing into ours, and they
will all collapse into ours. "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified." -Romans 8:28-30
Matterless particles, such as photons, may actually be a reaction, or
excitation in the Aether, meaning the speed of light travels at the speed it
does, because that's the speed of Aether.
