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By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen (Hebrews 11:3, NLT).
There is a known fact of creation that nobody understands.
Let me explain this “known fact” in Pastor Grant’s terminology, which will likely further confuse matters.
Very … very … very … small particles (even smaller than atoms) can form an entangled relationship (no, not like your family) so that what affects one immediately affects the other. And … and … and … even if these particles are thousands of miles away, changing one particle creates an instant change in the other particle. (I think I’m due the Nobel Prize for this explanation.)
This is the quantum physics principle of “entanglement,” even though quantum physicists with Nobel Prizes don’t have a clue or explanation. In more illustrative terms, it’s like painting a house from white to red in California, and at the same time, a house in New York turns from white to red.
It just doesn’t make sense — at least according to our limited ability to understand the mysteries of the universe. But Hebrews 11:3 (listed above) speaks the truth, indicating that it requires faith.
Albert Einstein started all the confusion when he and two of his colleagues (Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen) came up with the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox in 1935, which first theorized this entanglement of particles.
There are two very important implications of the EPR.
First, some scientists believe it contains the key to the nature of reality. Though important, with scientists using any theorem to discover the nature of reality, my scholastic conclusion is “Good luck!”
Second, and more immediately, is the use of these changing particles theorized in EPR as the basis for quantum computing.
How? Well, current computers or mobile devices work from a system of microscopic switches in chips that are either “on” or “off.” That’s right, when you look at a screen that’s powered by an Intel® Core i9 processor, it has 4.7 billion switches all working “on” and “off” according to the program used.
Whew! Rest for a moment. Now consider that what you are reading right now from your device depends on the on and off switches using a binary code of “1” and 0.”
Yep, switches use a binary code.
However, the EPR paradox indicates two particles can now work in conjunction with one another by forming qubits (quantum bits) which, because of interconnectivity, can be “0”, “1,” or any combination of “0” and “1,” speeding up computing multiple times faster than simple binary code.
EPR quantum computers now exist. Google® has developed a quantum computer that solved a problem in just 6.18 seconds that would take a very, very, very fast normal (binary) computer 47 years to compute!
Wow! My take on the matter is that quantum computers, being so fast, would solve problems before anyone even knew there was a problem. The main difficulty (at least for now) is that quantum computers must operate at a temperature of approximately -460 degrees Fahrenheit.
Whew! Yep! and Wow! And imagine the frostbite from carrying it around in your pocket!
Not being Nobel Prize Laureates, what can we learn from this Interruption? Ultimately, quantum physics proves what the Bible says — that what is seen is built from what is unseen and that the command of God (transnatural) undergirds the universe at the quantum level.
Or as the Apostle Paul writes. . .
He [Jesus] existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together (Colossians 1:17).
And we don’t need a quantum computer to believe this.