If I Had a Religion, H would be my God
Author: Ken Homer Issue: 2024-12-18
If I Had a Religion, H would be my God
by Ken Homer
“If you wish to bake and apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe.” ~ Carl Sagan
If I had a religion, I’d nominate H (Hydrogen) to fill the role of God H is the first element birthed by our Universe after our Universe exploded into existence Us-humans don’t know what existed before our Universe – it’s A Mystery Some call The Mysterious Origin of The Universe The Big Bang Some call it The Godhead or The Great Tao Some call it The Origin of All Things Still others refer to it as The Primal Flaring Forth or The Singularity Regardless of what you call it, It will always remain an insoluble Mystery
Our best guess is that our Universe was birthed out of an infinitesimally small space that contained a nearly infinite amount of energy and that our Universe came into existence as the result of an explosion of unimaginable magnitude Then, moments later, in Universe time, H appeared
If you go back in time far enough you find everything traces back to H And H is the most abundant element in the Universe I don’t know about you, but I want a God that’s abundant
Humans will never solve the Mystery of The Origin of The Universe And no less a character than The Buddha warned that the search for the Origin of the Universe is fruitless (He said it can drive you crazy!)
The Origin of All Things birthed Time itself and humans can’t know what was present before Time existed because we’re timebound creatures That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to learn all that we can about The Mystery Lots of useful things can be discovered in the process of trying to know It
The Godlike thing about Hydrogen isn’t just that it’s the most common element in the Universe It’s that, left alone, Hydrogen eventually turns into stars and galaxies and into solar systems with planets and moons and comets and into water and land and forests and grass and giraffes and peoples H does not demand any praise or worship or supplication or devotion To me that’s as close to what a God could/should be as I can imagine
Ken Homer • December, 2024
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