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God & E=mc2

We has a pooja (prayer ceremony) at my house today. May be that is why I could not help but wonder about this article i wrote long back in college. It is a different read than most of my blog posts so far. Hope you enjoy it. The most interesting and fascinating question that has always intrigued us: What is GOD? Is he a supernatural force? Where is he? What does he look like? Does he have super powers? These are some of the questions that we have always asked ourselves. We have satisfied ourselves with answers like: Yes, he is a Supernatural force who resides above the skies in the Heavens and he is always looking after us from there with his super natural powers. God is omnipresent. He is everywhere. This is another popular notion that many believe in. Man has established so many forms of GOD with multiple hands and faces. He has let his imagination go wild in this department. From the Hindu Goddess Durga to Christ, from Buddha to Allaha, man has artistically molded God’s forms with his imagination. Well, even I am a firm believer of most of these things. Yes, I actually think that GOD is a supernatural force who is omni present and has super natural powers. How and can I explain myself? Yes, I think I can. The stress of my explanation will be the fact that he is omnipresent. Let us see what God is again: A supernatural power or a force of nature, so basically a FORCE or ENERGY. Because, according to the simple laws of physics, power is dependent on energy, which is further dependent on force. Now, let us take a look at Einstein’s popular Mass-Energy Equivalence. He drew a brilliant linear relation between MASS and ENERGY. He said that: Energy=Mass x (Speed of Light) 2. Simply speaking, he said that Mass is Energy. Now answer this question: What is the one thing you will always notice or see around you? The answer is MASS. Now what is Mass? Energy. What we agree Energy was? GOD. Thus any body of mass is nothing but GOD. This supports the popular notion that God resides in all of us. This also supports the notion that God is omni present. Now let me explain how he is looking after us. Every body of mass exerts some force, namely Gravitational Force, upon its surroundings. Now, you are in a vast endless universe with limitless Mass and energy. Now all this Mass will exert its energy or force on you. Thus, most of the actions that we end up doing are due to force exerted by this energy or what we call GOD. Let me elucidate. Why is the earth in the green zone of the solar system, where life is possible? It is because of the force exerted on it by sun and the 8 other planets present in the solar system, right? Now imagine yourself to be earth and the vast universe and anything beyond it to be the solar system. Thus what we do, our position is all an equilibrium created upon us by all these forces being exerted up on us by the entire universe. Then comes the big question of God’s form. Well the answer to that is pretty simple, don’t you think? Like I said before, any body of mass is God. Now a body of mass can have different shapes and sizes. Thus, it doesn’t really matter what God looks like. We can give him any shape and size as we wish. Thing is that they will all be correct. This is what I think God is. You might disagree. But you can not ignore that most of what I just said makes some amount of sense. And in the end what does it matter what God is or what does he look like? As far as we believe that there is some power beyond our understanding and it is that power that is running the vast universe, I think each of us have the right to mold God in our own way.