Saturday, August 8, 2009

Visible/Invisible Reality and its implication

The notion is that the objective reality is divided into two parts: visible and invisible.
The experience of invisible reality (at least part of it) turned out to be quite common, and it’s so common that we take it for granted and not aware of its implication.

Dr. William Hatcher explained this very clearly in his article: “A scientific proof of the existence of God”. I took parts of it and compiled them here:

An invisible world is a portion of objective reality external to human subjectivity but inaccessible to human observation. In other words, there are forces and entities we cannot observe directly but which exist objectively, that is, independently of any human perception.

Let us look at a very simple example. Suppose we hold a small object like a pencil between our thumb and forefinger and then release it. We observe that it falls to the floor and we say that the force of gravity causes it to fall. But let us look again. Do we actually see any downward force acting upon the pencil, some thing pulling or pushing it? Clearly not. We do not observe the force of gravity at all. Rather we deduce the existence of some unseen force (called gravity) acting upon unsupported objects in order to explain their otherwise inexplicable downward movement.

This example of the downward falling of unsupported objects has shown much more than the simple existence of invisible or unobservable forces or entities. It has shown that observable effects can well have unobservable causes and that there are instances of observable behavior that cannot be explained observably. In more philosophical language, we have shown that the visible world is not self-sufficient, that it does not contain a 'sufficient reason' for itself: the phenomena of visible reality are produced by (or arise from) invisible reality.

Let us illustrate this truth with a simple analogy. Imagine that we are standing on the shore of an immense ocean. The ocean and its hidden depths represent the immensity of invisible reality. Occasionally a fish jumps out of the ocean into the air and then returns to the ocean. The brief moment during which the fish is out of the water represents a phenomenon of visible reality.

This analogy expresses very well the view of physical reality that derives from modern physics (in particular from quantum theory): the perceived macro-objects of visible reality consist of billions upon billions of little energy packets called elementary particles in relative but temporary equilibrium states and in continual motion. These particles arise from invisible reality (pure energy) and, whenever their equilibrium states are destroyed, they return to invisible reality.

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