Life of Pride

I’ve decided to kick off my new blog with a little imaginative speculation on the universe. This isn’t scientific in the slightest, only an experiment in bending my mind.

Up until last week, I have thought of the universe as a huge emptiness with various pieces of matter flinging themselves around in it. Last week, however, I dimly recalled the topic of dark matter and did a quick Google search. Apparently, 80% of the universe’s matter is invisible. It is spread out somewhere between the visible stuff.

So then my thinking began to turn on its head, much like this famous picture of the Rubin vase:

If you look at the “dark matter,” you see two faces. Otherwise, you see only a vase.

So I started thinking “what if,” which is when things get dangerous. What if, I wondered, our universe were a black something spread out, with 3D holes poked into it? Beyond our universe is a 4D something that is 100% sheer light that shines through the holes?

Preposterous, you say? Probably. But I recall an experiment I did when I was a kid. I took a sheet of black construction paper and poked holes in it with a pin, then covered a light with it. This 2D sheet covered a 3D object, and lights shone through. The sheet itself had substance, and to 2D creatures crawling around on it, the infinitesimally thin slices of light they encountered would themselves seem to have heat and substance.

The sun brings light and life to living things. We also say that about God. What if our sun and all the other stars were just the tiniest pinpricks of God’s glory?

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