Men have always endeavored to come up with an explanation for everything.
Stephen Hawking, a world-renowned physicist, popularized the Theory of Everything in his book, A Brief History of Time. Dr. Hawking is a paraplegic, (Lou Gehrig's Disease), almost completely paralyzed now, but still able to teach at Cambridge and pursue his quest for the Theory of Everything.
![[Stephen Hawking, Theory of Everything]](http://www.v-a.com/stephen_hawking.jpg)
The
Theory of Everything attempts to unite all the physical knowledge of the
universe and explain how the world was formed, how man came to be, and, to put
it in Hawking's words, "to know the mind of God." He speaks only as
a physicist, of course, trying to know how the universe came into being; the
big bang theory has become too old.
The Theory of Everything encompasses the Big Bang, Newtonian Physics, Einstein's Theory of Relativity, and, in fact, all the theories about life and the formation of the universe. It's a very ambitious theory. The best minds on television even know about it. Stephen Hawking has been a guest on their shows. They keep dropping the name of the English professor and mentioning the Theory of Everything, sometimes as a non sequitur.
Normally, I don't have time to read a lot about esoteric subjects, but this theory kind of interested me. I thought, man is always trying to figure out everything, and how the universe was created has been the topic of many Atheist-Christian debates over the years. So, I read up a little about the subject over the Internet.
It turns out that Plato, Aristotle, and Einstein, all tried to invent a theory that explains everything. Pierre-Simon Laplace, the great French Mathematician, in a philosophical essay, written in 1814, suggested that an intellect sufficiently powerful, could figure out everything. He wasn't talking about God. All these gentlemen have tried to figure out everything through science only.
![[Pierre-Simon Laplace, French Mathematician]](http://www.v-a.com/pierre-simon_laplace.jpg)
However,
the Theory of Everything attempts to explain all known phenomena and to
predict the outcome of any experiment. This might not sound earth shattering,
but the primary problem that the Theory of Everything addresses is unifying
quantum mechanics and general relativity. However, you don't need to read up
on quantum mechanics, general relativity, quarks, M Theory, String Theory,
Loop Theory, etc. Stephen Hawking is trying to explain everything that
happened from the moment the first atom came into being and how the universe
was created. His approach is what makes the totality of the scientific
enterprise extremely meaningful.
What he discovered is that even negative particles have weight and force, and they can be measured. Stephen Hawking is now studying the Black Hole that produced the universe. He has theorized that every galaxy has its Black Hole, and that, in fact, every atom has its negative atom, its counterpart, so to speak, that without the negative force, there can be no positive force.
This is where it really turns dangerous, however, because here one may be misled into thinking that the inception of the universe is a dark and evil force. Now, Stephen Hawking doesn't suggest such an evil; but, nevertheless, this line of reasoning leads to evil connotations. Then, Stephen Hawking interjects at a certain point in his interviews, "Do we still need a God?"
Yet despite that and in fact because of it, I believe this question is what has kept Stephen Hawking alive. As long as he seeks God, the Lord will not let him die.
The scientific world would have probably ignored Stephen Hawking if it were just that his Theory of Everything was attempting to unite all the theories regarding the physical world -- but for this one flaw: Stephen Hawking adamantly knows that his healing relies on discovering the Theory of Everything, a theory that can truly explain how everything came into being. This is perhaps why Stephen Hawking hasn't been given the Nobel Prize for physics yet. In his theorizing, Stephen Hawking is maybe hinting that only God could have created the universe.
By racing alongside Stephen Hawking, the scientific world is learning many things about advanced science. So they must tolerate Dr. Hawking's musings into the unknown and the unknowable. His book, A Brief History of Time, concluded with the question, "What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?" In his quest for the Mind of God, Stephen Hawking has struck a primordial chord.
By linking quantum mechanics and general relativity, can Stephen Hawking unlock the secret of creation? As he puts it, "to bring Quantum Mechanics into the heart of the Black Hole." The Black Holes are considered the beginnings of everything, because they lead to the powerful explosions that restart the cycle of birth of other suns and planetary systems. So, therefore, Stephen Hawking has conjured up the force inside the Black Holes as the power behind creation. This invisible force that creates from nothing!
I was discussing this issue with my wife, regarding Stephen Hawking and his state of paraplegia. She was moved by the man's desire to gain the ultimate knowledge, the knowledge of good and evil, the knowledge that was locked in the forbidden fruit and which God did not wish Adam to possess; she blurted out, "You will know everything the moment when you die and rise again." Which brings me to the concluding thoughts on the Theory of Everything and Stephen Hawking's quest for the ultimate knowledge.
The Lord never wished for us to have this knowledge. In fact, we can't exist in the flesh if we have this knowledge. The force of life causes the body to die. If the body does not get sick and die, it means that the individual did not live at all. In the same way, what gives the earth its life is in its going around the sun and finally crashing into it. Its predestined death means that it is also alive. It is part of the phenomenon of the celestial bodies of the universe.
So without his sickness, Stephen Hawking would have never been disposed to ask the question that he asks. His dying body is seeking a cure, and the only one that can heal him is the Creator of the Universe. He is the force that "puts the fire into the formulas."
Stephen Hawking even hints at the truth, "We live because of the imperfections of creation." His own condition gave him the insight. The Lord can heal Stephen Hawking. All he has to do is ask. He is already blessed with life. He was told that Lou Gehrig disease would kill him within a few months, but Stephen Hawking is alive and in his late sixties.
But what really matters for Stephen Hawking and for everyone, really, is how to go on living beyond the black holes. And that knowledge has always been there. It was never a theory. It was given to us through the Scriptures, not as the Theory of Everything, but as the reality of everything. Through our sicknesses we discover the meaning of life; the struggle to survive enables us to have an acceptable life, and the prayers for healing bring us closer to the Lord and make us His Children.
11-24-2011