My Encounter with God Part VII

I thought that it would be an easy task for me to show that the universe was indeed spaceless and timeless, but actually it was not so easy. I thought if a photon moved from one end of the universe to its other end, then the so-called properties of the light would make the universe spaceless and timeless. Length will contract to zero, and time will also totally stop. But the real shock came when I realized after reading the book written by Einstein and Infeld that length contraction took place only in the direction in which the light was moving, not in every direction. For the volume of the universe to become zero, its length will have to contract to zero in every direction. But this difficulty was found to be a minor difficulty only, and it was very easily overcome. This is because there was the example of the sun. When the sun shines, it sends its rays in each and every direction, and not in only one direction. So if there is any such source of the light in the universe, then the length of the universe will be contracted in every direction. But when one problem is solved, another problem appears. The visible light cannot penetrate solid objects like Earth, Jupiter etc., and there is an abundance of these solid objects in this universe. Let us suppose that the total volume of the universe is x, and that the total volume of all these solid objects all over the universe is y. Let us also suppose that all the vacant spaces in the universe devoid of any solid object are filled up with the visible light. So this visible light will be able to make only x-y to be zero, but not y to be zero, and thus it will fail to make the entire universe spaceless.
When I found that with the help of the visible light it was not possible for me to show that the entire universe was indeed spaceless and timeless, I earnestly began searching for another particle that would have the same properties as those of the light, but that would also have another most essential property that the light was not having. That particle must be able to penetrate those solid objects that the visible light cannot penetrate at all. In that case only that particle will be able to make the entire universe spaceless. But is there really any such particle in the universe? The name of the particle that surfaced to my mind was neutrino. At that time it was believed that neutrinos moved with the speed of the light, because at that time it was not known that neutrinos had any mass. It was also known to me that neutrinos could easily pass through the earth. But, can neutrinos pass through each and every object that is there in the universe? That was the real question. I put this question to the physicist in the internet (Ask the physicist), and to my dismay I came to know that although neutrinos could pass through many solid objects that were there in the universe, still there were many other objects that they could not pass through at all. There are some stars with such a high density that neutrinos cannot penetrate them at all. Perhaps he mentioned here neutron star, but I may be mistaken here, because I am writing everything from my memory only. He also mentioned that neutrinos could pass through our sun, but there were other stars many times bigger than the sun that neutrinos would fail to pass through. So ultimately I came to realize that with the help of the neutrinos also it would not be possible for me to show in any way that the entire universe was spaceless and timeless. Actually what is required here is that there will have to be a substance that will be all-pervading, and that it will also have all the properties of the light at the same time. This substance will be within the sun, within the moon, within us, within red star, within neutron star, within quasar, within pulsar, within whatever there is in this universe and also without. No known forces of this universe will have any effect on this substance. If this condition is fulfilled, then only it will be possible for that substance to be all-pervading. If there is really any such substance in this universe, then this universe will of course be spaceless and timeless. But scientists will never be able to detect the presence of that substance in our universe, because a substance on which no known forces of this universe can have even the slightest effect can never be detected by any established methodology of science. So here my failure could be very easily excused on this ground.

Earlier I have seen that it would not be possible for me to show that everything in this universe had actually originated from one substance only. Now I found that neither could I show that this universe was indeed spaceless and timeless. So out of the three things that I have proposed to show for proving the existence of God two were already gone. What remained then was not sufficient enough for fulfilling my purpose. So, how would I prove that there was a God? Would my dream never come true? Would my whole life be a big failure, a big waste? In such a critical moment of my life one day I earnestly prayed to God for delivering me from that crisis: Please give me some direct proof/evidence of your existence. To whom else other than God could I have prayed at that time?

A few days later I was in my office. It was afternoon, and the time was about 2-30 to 3-00 P.M. I had gone to the toilet for urinating. After returning from the toilet I was washing my hands in the basin. Suddenly a thought came to my mind as if in a sudden flash: We say that God is spaceless and timeless. That means for God space and time do not exist. But for us human beings space and time are very much real. So, if such a God does really exist, then space and time will definitely be relative. And science has also shown that space and time are indeed relative. So the theory of relativity shows that there is a God, because the presence of a spaceless and timeless God in the universe can only make space and time relative. And mystics and other God-believers all over the world have also unanimously said about God that He is spaceless and timeless. So, if the theory of relativity is scientifically correct, then we can with confidence say that there is indeed a God. Thus I would say that almost miraculously I got the first proof/evidence of God on that day.