The Nature of God's Existence

One of the reasons why I believe in God would be why I have faith in the existence of the mind
and how it uses energy. When I say mind, I'm not referring to brains, at least, not in that sense.

Once in a while, I notice that I have no desire for hatred and instead feel filled with optimism and
compassion. I keep from using profanity and, more recently, keep from feeling hatred towards
others, instead choosing to be considerate and understanding, hopefully more loving and
compassionate in the future.

I do this with the intent of having a healthy mind. I'm not suicidal nor do I feel depression
anymore. Instead, I tend to feel more optimistic and ambitious. As in, I just feel greater concern
and can't find it any bit practical to have an apathetic attitude. This is in acknowledgment of
those who I learn these standards from as well and their good influence. I do acknowledge God's
existence.

I don't think God is any "invisible man in the sky." The supreme being isn't of any physical
existence. It's quite possible that we're all living in his mind. He controls the entirety of the
physical universe, and his warnings and cautions have supported morality, good behavior, and
overall survival for righteous beings. Additionally, he is merciful and understanding, but
certainly not tolerant of crises to our survival. God is consistent, having always existed, covering
the beginning, current, and future extent of time in the relative dimension; never changing
spiritually.

I wouldn't deny that this this non-physical being's exists for much the same reason why anybody
would know that human beings aren't able to see the existence of every single entity in the
physical universe and beyond, whether with the naked eye, with mechanical tools, or within the
timeframe of the human race's existence. I know the mind and energy exist, but have never seen
them before. I've seen brains, but it's the images, the control of mind over matter, and the full
nature of the mind that is a whole other scope of study that isn't within the limits of science's
studies. We can see the brain and scan for seeing the effec ts of depression, drugs, alcohol, etc. on
the brain's functions, but there is no prescriptive cure from science for disorders, hatred, or
misery. That does not make it any less credible; just not as effective in dealing with fields outside
it's scope.

Psychology and similar studies concern themselves with finding these types of cures, but there
has long been the soteriological belief in a supreme being; long been the organization of
individuals with similar understandings of the greater good.

Simply put, not everything that exists is within the scope of visibility for human beings, but we
do acknowledge much of it. I've heard of concepts of the existence of an entity of no physical
existence, but, rather, of great, limitless energy from which matter came to be.

Matter can be converted into energy (in cells, that usable energy is called ATC; with certain
elements, they can collide and release energy as an atomic explosion). Energy can be converted
into matter.
It takes a great deal of energy to create matter, but, nevertheless, is possible.

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970724a.html

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The Question
(Submitted July 24, 1997)

Why is it impossible, at this point in time, to convert energy into matter?

The Answer
It happens all the time. Particle accelerators convert energy into subatomic particles, for example
by colliding electrons and positrons. Some of the kinetic energy in the collision goes into
creating new particles.

It's not possible, however, to collect these newly created particles and assemble them into
atoms, molecules and bigger (less microscopic) structures that we associate with 'matter' in
our daily life. This is partly because in a technical sense, you cannot just create matter out
of energy: there are various 'conservation laws ' of electric charges, the numbe r of leptons
(electron-like particles) etc., which means that you can only create matte r / anti-matter
pairs out of energy. Anti- matter, however, has the unfortunate tendency to combine with matter
and turn itself back into energy. Even though physicists have managed to safely trap a small
amount of anti- matter using magnetic fields, this is not easy to do.

Also, Einstein's equation, Energy = Mass x the square of the velocity of light, tells you that
it takes a huge amount of energy to create matte r in this way. The big accelerator at
Fermilab can be a significant drain on the electricity grid in and around the city of
Chicago, and it has produced very little matter.

Koji Mukai, with David Palmer, Andy Ptak and Paul Butterworth
for the Ask an Astrophysicist
http://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae697.cfm
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Question

Since antimatter is created when two matter particles are slammed together at high velocities,
could the vice versa work and create matter?

Asked by: David

Ans wer

Yes. Anti-matte r has mass and whe n mass moves at a high velocity, there is an overall
increase in energy. Whe n the two anti-matter particles collide, you will have a strong
release of energy that will result in the creation of both "normal matter" particles and
"anti-matter" particles. But, since you started with anti-matter, in the end, there will be a
greater mass of anti-matter than normal matter.

The technical reasons are known as "Lepton number conservation" or "Baryon number
conservation" coupled with "charge conservation". When you add the appropriate baryon and
lepton numbers and know the beginning charge of both particles, all three of these numbers must
be equal before and after the reaction. Lepton and Baryon numbers are typically negative for
anti- matter and positive for normal matter, so when you have the reaction, in the end the
numbers must be negative just like they started. So you will end up with as much anti- matter as
you started with.

Answered by: Eugene Geis, M.S., Physics Grad Student, ASU, Phoenix, AZ

Ans wer

The answer to your question is yes. Let us consider the example of a high energy (~20 GeV)
electron scattering inelastically with a proton, the result yielding evidence of quarks.

Firstly, I should make it clear that whe n two matter particles collide at high energy, only
ne w matter-antimatter particle PAIRS can be created from the interaction. This fact
becomes obvious when one conside rs that charge, lepton and baryon number are all
conserved quantities. New anti-matte r particles cannot be create by the mselves, as
conservation laws would be violated. Once this is unde rstood the creation of new particles
can simply be understood as the conve rsion of energy to matter-antimatte r pairs.
Importantly, you should realize that the antimatter p roducts will eventually annihilate with
matter (although perhaps after further decays) unless the antimatter is forcefully isolated.

In the example given, relativity tells us that the electron is at high enough energy in order for the
proton to appear (relative to its motion) as a flat disc, with the quark motion almost stopped. The
electron then interacts electromagnetically with the quarks at close distance and considerably
disturbs them. Since quarks cannot exist in isolation, a lone quark cannot be removed from the
proton and instead the energy from the strong- force field (due to the disturbance of the quarks) is
used to create new matter-antimatter particle pairs. Many complex particle showers are produced
in such interactions.

Clearly the above explanation of s uch interactions is independent of whether the colliding
particles are both matter or both antimatter, and a similar interaction would occur
between a positron and an anti-proton. Again, matter-antimatter particle pairs would be
produced and again the antimatter must be forcefully isolated if annihilation is to be
prevented.

The answe r to your question is, thus, clearly yes: matter would be created when antimatter
particles collide at high energy. You s hould understand that the matter would be produced
in particle-antiparticle pairs though and isolation is difficult. Equally, you should see that
this process would be of no use for creating matte r for *use*, since matter is abundant in
the Universe around us and we have no need to create it. However, the process is of
considerable use in studying unstable fundamental matter (and antimatter) particles (e.g. charm,
strange, top, bottom quarks, muon and tau, W, Z etc...). A high energy method must also be used
to create then isolate antimatter when it is needed for study.

Answered by: Sam Cohen, Physics Student, LGS, UK

For anything of physical existence or just any entity of matter to exist, something like the Big
Bang is key to understanding how the physical existence of most anything in the universe has
naturally come to be. Could this entity of limitless energy have set it in motion?

What is anti- matter like? Being that it is an entity separate from the respective entity of matter,
but directly depends on the existence of matter to balance the two out, does anti- matter function
similarly to what is called the "soul?" As in, whatever exists as matter is not anti- matter, but anti-
matter could possibly be directly related to that entity of matter's formation as existence like a
"soul." I'm not entirely sure about that.

Creating matter from energy has successfully been done before by human beings like, here,
involving electrons and their pair positrons:

http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_762504480/scientists_create_matter_out_of_light.html

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Scientists Create Matter Out of Light

German-born American physicist Albert Einstein’s elegant equation E=mc2 predicted that
energy could be converted to matter. Using a linear accelerator and high-energy laser light,
physicists have done just that. This 1997 Encarta Yearbook article describes their success.
Scientists Create Matter Out of Light

Physicists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California have succeeded
in producing particles of matter from very energetic collisions of light. The team, which
included researchers from Stanford University, the University of Rochester in New York, the
University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and Princeton University in New Jersey, published an
account of their work in the September 1, 1997, issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.

Scientists have long known that matter can be converted to ene rgy and, conve rsely, energy
can be converted to matter. In 1905 physicist Albert Einstein quantified the relationship
between matter and energy in his famous equation e=mc2, in which E is energy, m is mass,
and c is the speed of light (300,000 km/sec [186,000 mi/sec]). In an atomic bomb blast, a
very small amount of matter is conve rted to its equivalent in energy, creating an imme nse
explosion.
Scientists have also created matte r from ene rgy by bombarding heavy atoms (atoms made
up of many protons and neutrons) with high-ene rgy radiation in the form of X rays.
Collisions between the X-ray beam and the atoms created matter in the form of sets of electron
and positron particles, a phenomenon known as pair production. Positrons are particles that have
the same weight and amount of charge as electrons, but positrons are positively charged, while
electrons are negatively charged.

In the recent experiments at SLAC, physicists accelerated a beam of electrons to nearly the speed
of light. They then aimed a split-second pulse of high-energy laser light directly at the electron
beam. Occasionally a photon (a tiny, discrete unit of light energy) collided with an electron. The
photon then recoiled from the collision and re bounded into oncoming photons from the
laser beam with s uch violence that the resulting energy was conve rted into an electron-
positron pair. Over several months of such experiments, the physicists were able to
produce more than 100 electron-positron pairs.

Source: Encarta Yearbook, September 1997.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1997/09/970918045841.htm
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Out Of Pure Light, Physicists Create Particles Of Matter

ScienceDaily (Sep. 18, 1997) — A team of 20 physicists from four institutions has literally made
something from nothing, creating particles of matter from ordinary light for the first time. The
experiment was carried out at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) by scientists and
students from the University of Rochester, Princeton University, the University of Tennessee,
and Stanford. The team reported the work in the Sept. 1 issue of Physical Review Letters.

Scientists have long been able to convert matter to ene rgy; the most spectacular example is
a nuclear explosion, where a small amount of matter creates tremendous energy. Now
physicists have succeeded in doing the opposite: converting ene rgy in the form of light into
matter -- in this experiment, electrons and their anti-matter equivalent, positrons.

Converting energy into matter isn't completely new to physicists. When they smash together
particles like protons and anti-protons in high-energy accelerator experiments, the initial particles
are destroyed and release a fleeting burst of energy. Sometimes this energy burst contains very
short- lived packets of light known as "virtual photons" which go on to form new particles. In this
experiment scientists observed for the first time the creation of particles from real photons,
packets of light that scientists can observe directly in the laboratory.

Physicists accomplished the feat by dumping an incredible amount of power -- nearly as

much as it takes to run the entire nation but lasting only for a tiny fraction of a second --
into an area less than one billionth of a square centimeter, which is far s maller than the
period at the end of this sentence. They used high-energy electrons traveling near the speed
of light, produced by SLAC's two-mile-long accelerator, and photons from a powe rful,
"tabletop terawatt" glass laser developed at Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics.
The laser unleashed a tiny but powe rful slive r of light lasting about one trillionth of a
second (one picosecond) -- just half a millimeter long. Packed into this sliver we re more
than two billion billion photons.

The team synchronized the two beams and sent the electrons head-on into the photons.
Occasionally an electron barreled into a photon with immense energy, "like a speeding Mack
truck colliding with a ping pong ball," says physicist Adrian Melissinos of the University of
Rochester. That knocked the photon backward with such tremendous energy that it collided with
several of the densely packed photons behind it and combined with them, creating an electron
and a positron. In a series of experiments lasting several months the team studied thousands of
collisions, leading to the production of more than 100 positrons.

The energy-to-matter conversion was made possible by the incredibly strong

electromagnetic fields that the photon-photon collisions produced. Similar conditions are
found only rarely in the universe; neutron stars, for instance, have incredibly strong
magnetic fields, and some scientists believe that their surfaces are home to the same kind of
light-to-matter interactions the team observed. This experiment marks the first time
scientists have been able to create such strong fields using laser beams.

By conducting experiments like this scientists test the principles of quantum electrodynamics
(QED) in fields so strong that the vacuum "boils" into pairs of electrons and positrons. The
scientists say the work could also have applications in designing new particle accelerators.
That great entity of limitless energy would have always existed and not be of any physical
existence because, of course, it is not matter, just energy. As with ATC in cells, nobody can
actually "see" ATC, but we can tell where it possibly is, how it's being used, and just plainly that
it exists.

Light from the sun is a way of getting energy and converting it into matter, like leaves and seeds;
photosynthesis. Matter, like the fruit of plants and the meat of animals, can be used for energy
within the body. Energy is used in the brain and throughout the body to take actions and facilitate
living, but not enough to create matter itself. With that energy in the body, it's not exactly a
tangible, touchable entity that we can just grab and use (that is, until it is in the form of matter,
like orange juice or slice of meat).

We can tell what energy's effects are, where it is, how strong it is, how it's used, and attempt to
capture it, but if it's not being used, it's simply kept stable as matter. Respiration releases energy
that animals like us can use. Energy is also active in the brain as the living mind. Within the
brain, there is also order and control. One part is exercised for language, another for emotions,
etc. Wouldn't morality and values factor into this, too, even if they are just facilitated by
"chemicals" in the brain?

Without using energy, matter is not really a living organism. It's only with energy's influence that
living organisms are able to live and interact. A rock may be able to be moved, but only by living
organisms that use energy. The changing state of the physical world (like their relative
environment) is caused by living organisms, but ultimately, it is influenced by reaction and use
of energy.
Energy is the source of life. For the Big Bang to have occurred and led to the formation of the
physical universe, there must have been a great deal of energy invested into such a reaction to
turn energy into matter.

The idea is that there has always existed this limitless source of energy. There is order to nature,
the whole physical universe, and it is not "random." Neither the Big Bang nor evolution imply
"randomness," but instead order and an appropriate design for survival of life. Nothing all that
irrational about it.

Converting matter into energy and energy into matter is real. Scientifically supported. That is the
"empirical evidence" for the existence of physical entities and an entity (or entities) of limitless
energy; in other words, a supreme being or "God." Many have been aware of the existence of a
supreme being, called "God" or another name; known or communicated as one kind of idea or
another. I know that God isn't any sort of physical entity itself. I think that the supporting
evidence and insight into the existence of the supreme being is logical and it works.