God, the Universe, and All That Is

  Stars have a life cycle that mimics the human life cycle, as they go through their lives in childhood, youth, aging and death [1] . Stars are born from the accumulation of hydrogen atoms in the intergalactic cosmic nebula, which is a cosmic dust consisting mainly of hydrogen and a little percentage of helium atoms.  Hydrogen atoms accumulate in the nebula under the effect of their own mass gravity, which increases over time until a certain threshold leading to a rise in hydrogen temperature that permits the accumulated hydrogen to start nuclear fusion reactions. The nuclear fusion of hydrogen in the cosmic nebulae leads to the birth of stars.  This fusion is the source of the enormous heat that these stars, including our sun radiate. We could thus consider our sun as an enormous nuclear reactor that produces energy, leaving helium as a by-product of the ongoing nuclear reactions.  Helium resulting from the reaction gradually accumulates in the nucleus of the ...

Recent medical and psychological research has focused on the moments of death, which have been reported to be surrounded by many strange phenomena to consider and explain. Medicine studies these phenomena as "Near Death Experiences," or NDEs, a rare abnormal phenomenon in which some who have experienced accidents leading to clinical death have experienced strange events and occurrences, some of which were described as good and beautiful, and some of which were described as scenes of horror and agony. The patient's description of a dark tunnel leading to a heavenly light far away at its end was a common theme in all of these experiences. The NDE begins with the dying person's consciousness exiting his body, allowing him to see his body laid on his deathbed, surrounded by loved ones and relatives who are crying for his separation. The dying befuddles their grief because he believes he is in the best possible state; then he begins to pass through a tunnel, at the end of ...

  What happens when we die? Beyond consciousness lies the problem of what happens when it all seemingly goes away upon death. “Brain death” is officially recognized as: The Diagnosis of Brain Death [2]   “The irreversible loss of all functions of the brain, including the brain stem. The three essential findings in brain death are coma, absence of brain stem reflexes, and apnoea [1] . A patient determined to be brain dead is legally and clinically dead.”   When this happens, there is nothing we can measure that indicates any level of consciousness whatsoever, and for all intents and purposes this lack of awareness is irreversible. Most often, brain death occurs when extreme damage is caused to the brain itself, either via trauma or prolonged oxygen starvation and cell death. Based on this evidence, the self, and the consciousness and awareness that comes with it, seems to exist in the structure of the brain. When the physical clump of neurons and lipids that is “us” be...

  It has been demonstrated since 1929 that the Universe is expanding, that is, the distance between any two given gravitational unbound parts of the observable Universe is increasing with time. [1] It is an intrinsic expansion in which the scale of space changes. The Universe does not expand "into" anything, nor does it necessitate the existence of space "outside" it. This expansion does not involve space or objects in space "moving" in the traditional sense, but rather the metric that governs the size and geometry of space-time evolving in scale. As the spatial part of the Universe's space-time metric increases in scale, objects become more distant from one another at ever-increasing speeds. To any observer in the Universe, it appears that all of space is expanding, and that all but the nearest galaxies (which are bound by gravity) recede at speeds that are proportional to their distance from the observer. Scientists once predicted that the Unive...