The Time Space Continuum

Albert Einstein saw the world in a different way. He peered into the next dimension and tried to understand it. Like Isaac Newton and other great minds, he was fascinated about the concept of gravity and other mysteries. Understanding gravity is relatively simple until you see how it affects the time space continuum and your place in the universe.

Although most of us aren’t physicists, we can understand some concepts. The space-time continuum has geometric qualities. Space and time as physical constructs, must get mixed together by the common denominator of mathematics. Since space consists of three dimensions, and time consists of one dimension, it makes sense that the space-time model must then be a 4-dimensional object. It is a continuum because there are no missing points in space or missing moments in time. The space-time continuum doesn’t evolve, it simply exists.

Gravity on the other hand is no mystery. That’s the stuff that keeps you grounded. Mr. Newton discovered that when an apple fell on his head and he did some ruminating on the matter. Apples have mass, and gravity works its magic on things with mass. Maybe our brief physics lesson ought to be looking into where mass and gravity and all this space-time stuff came from.

For most scientists, the space-time continuum is a matter of mental exercise. The real heavy lifting comes into play when we realize that all these things, material and non-material, were placed in strategic amounts and places and work flawlessly every moment of every day. Which leads us to muse – how did this happen? Like it’s been said a million times before, if you can believe the first verse of the first book of the Bible, you won’t have trouble with anything else.

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)

“How great is God—beyond our understanding!”  Job 37:26   Listen to what He says when “God Speaks”— from the Book of Job.  God spreads out the clouds, fills his hands with lightning and commands its striking mark.  He commands the snow, rain and wind when to fall on the earth.  He laid the earth’s foundations, marked off its dimensions.  He knows the number of flakes and drops in the storehouses.  He knows the number of grains of sand on the beaches and ocean floors.  He burst forth out of the tomb.  He gives orders to the morning and shows the dawn its place.  He has walked the recesses of the deep seas.  He puts darkness in its place.  He monitors the storehouses of hail for war and battle.  He gives birth to the frost and ice.  He knows when the mountain goat and doe bears birth.  He gives the snake rattle its quiver, the horse its mane, the ostrich warm sand in which to lay its eggs.  He can pull in the leviathan with a fishhook. More evidence, read Job.  “God Speaks”—with authority.  THE AUTHORITY!

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