THE EQUATIONS OF CREATION

By: Neil Urian S. Mabulay

I'm not a fundamentalist nor a creationist, and I dont even believe in a supernatural entity. But I just think that if the book of Genesis in the old testament is to be modified, it should be modified into something like this.

These beautiful equations explain the structure of the universe and serve as the foundation of modern physics. 

The first equation is Einstein's Field Equation also known as General Relativity. It describes how mass distorts the fabric of spacetime, thus affecting the shape of space and the flow of time, resulting to an attractive force called gravity. The equation also predicted that the universe had a beginning. The 'lambda' in the equation is called Einstein's Cosmological Constant. Today, astronomers refer to one theory of Dark Energy as the cosmological constant. Dark energy, for all we know, is the unknown force that drives the expansion of the universe. The theory says that dark energy has been steady and constant throughout time and will remain that way.

The second equation is Newton's Law of Gravitation. It describes Gravity as the long range attractive force between two objects with mass. The equation tells us how strong the gravitational attraction is depending on how massive the objects are and how far away they are from each other. It explains how galaxies, stars, planets such as the Earth, and other celestial objects formed in the heavens over time.

The third equation is the Bekenstein-Hawking Equation. It explains how black holes emit thermal radiation called the Hawking Radiation and evaporate over time. A black hole is a region of spacetime in which gravity is so intense that nothing can escape from it, not even light. The equation describes how black-hole entropy is proportional to the area of its event horizon -- the boundary of a black hole beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer also known as the point of no return.

The last equations are Maxwell's Equations of Electromagnetism also known as the Equation of Light. They describe how electric charges and electric currents produce electric and magnetic fields. Further, they describe how an electric field can generate a magnetic field, and vice versa. 

The four equations are as follows:

(1) Gauss’s Law

There are two types of charges, positive and negative, just as there are two types of real numbers, positive and negative. Electric field lines diverge from positive charge and converge on negative charge.

(2) No One’s Law

There is no magnetic monopole. Magnetic field lines neither converge nor diverge (have no beginning or end).

(3) Faraday’s law

Electric field lines don’t curl; except when the magnetic field changes.

(4) Ampère’s law

Magnetic field lines curl around electric current; and also curl when the electric field changes.

All these equations, the equations of creation as being described in this article, though it doesn't make the book of genesis true, pretty much fit in the poetry of the oldest book that is said to have ever been written by man.

A New Perspective

Before the year 2018 begins, I would like to share this amazing lecture "A New Perspective" by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Let us all welcome this year with a new perspective. Happy new year everyone. Keep looking up.

A NEW PERSPECTIVE

by: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist / director of Hayden Planetarium

Space is a three-hundred billion dollar industry worldwide. NASA is actually a tiny percent of that. It's interesting how small a percent NASA is to the total world spending of space. That little bit, however, is what inspires dreams. Every corporation in here with representatives to this conference, if you ever even touched a science mission, you would lead off with that in your quarterly reports, in your annual reports, because it inspires. It is the act of discovery that empowers nations in the world to undertake these activities. We know this.

Apollo 8, that was the first time anybody ever left Earth with a destination in mind. Yeah, it figurated around the Moon. The photo of Earth rising over the lunar landscape, we all know it--Earthrise over the Moon. There was Earth, seen not as the map-maker would have you identify it. No, the countries were not color-coded with bounderies. It was seen as nature intended it to be viewed--oceans, lands, clouds. We went to the Moon, and we discovered Earth. I claim we discovered Earth for the first time.

Photo by NASA

How does that affect culture? I got a list. The instant that photo comes out, that is the identifying cover picture of the whole Earth catalogue, thinking about Earth as a whole. Not as a place where nations war, [but] as a whole. 1970 the comprehensive clean air act is passed. Earth day was birth on March 1970. The environmental protection agency was founded in 1970. The organization "Doctors without Boarders" was founded in 1971. Where do you even get that phrase from? No one thought of that phrase before that photo was published. Because every globe in your classroom has countries painted on it. DDT gets banned in 1972, we're still going to the Moon, we're still looking back to Earth. Clean water act 1971. 1972 endangered species act. The catalytic converter gets put-in in 1973, unleaded gas 1973, we're still at war in Vietnam! There's still campus unrest. Yet we found the time to start thinking about Earth. That is space operating on our culture and you cannot even put a price on that.

That is a nation, that is a world, reacting to a new perspective on what it is to be alive on this planet that we all share. We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment. Because as goes the health of space varying ambitions, so too goes the spiritual, the emotional, the intellectual, the creative, and the economic ambitions of a nation. So goes the future of America [so goes the future of the world].