The Invisible Universe

So, being the nerd that I am, I spent a couple hours the other night watching a show on the History channel about the universe. I was so amazed, haha!

I couldn’t help but be in awe of how absolutely STUNNING all of existence is! The placement that we have in our galaxy is so that we are far enough from the center that we aren’t much affected by the enormous gravitational field of the black hole that lives there, but we are so close to the edge that we are able to see so many of the other galaxies out there. We are in an amazing place for survival and for discovery.

I couldn’t help but laugh when one of the scientists even said that most all of our universe is invisible. That’s nuts! Only 20% of the universe is made up of planets, stars, asteroids, and whatever else we see—80% is made up of “invisible” or “black” matter. Most of this matter is so small that we cannot even see it with the finest microscopes—-some smaller than atoms! We are completely surrounded not only by gases from our atmosphere and other dust, but we’re also surrounded by subatomic particles and even possible mini black holes from our own universe and even other universes thousands of light years away. That’s part of what they’re trying to find by use of the Large Hadron Collider (the particle accelerator) in Switzerland.

I also had to laugh when they talked about how weird so many things were. Things that occurred without real rhyme or reason but just because it could, I suppose. For example, there is an asteroid called Toutatis that orbits in the asteroid belt and it doesn’t rotate around any of its major axes, it just tumbles. There’s no reason why the asteroid should randomly tumble rather than rotate around one or both of its axes, but it does and it has a huge impact on our very galaxy and even our planet. It’s the asteroid that came 100,000 miles from hitting the earth in 2004 because it has a more elliptical orbit that puts it in an orbital path that intersects that of earth.

This is just a scratch at the surface of what goes on all around us! So many times people don’t want to believe in God because He is not visible to us here on earth…more than the majority of our very makeup in the sense of our universe is not visible to us! We see the results of these particles and gases and phenomena to realize that they do in fact exist, do we not? When was the last time you saw wind? Nope. You saw those leaves move because the wind caused them to move; you didn’t see it. When was the last time you saw air? Consciousness? Gravity? Your mind? Now ask yourself, when was the last time you saw God?

We see through our experiences, through our experiments even. We see the effects and for us that has to be good enough because our eyes are just not equipped to see 80% of our universe and better yet, a perfect God. We trust the unseen out of faith everyday, that's no excuse to not trust God.