Nothing moves faster than light ? since when?How fast does your Soul travel to reach beyond in the Heaven?

Question

Considering the size of the Universe ;The Soul if it travelled at the slow speed of light that we measured relative to the Earth, it would reach Heaven in 15 billion years wouldnt it?

We live in a physical Universe and so is our Soul and spirit dont we? So to go from one point to another we travel a displacement of distance and time isnt that true?.

note ;Einstein's 2nd postulate of relativity,"all laws of physics have the same form in all inertial frame of references".

Ight is not the only thing that moves at that speed isnt true?

Answer 1

This is an assumption made by Einstein. It could be wrong.

Answer 2

Nothing travels faster than light since always. Einstein came up with the math describing why in the early 1900's (I'm too lazy to look up the dates right now)

For the rest, you have to define your terms. What is the soul? What and where is Heaven?

There is no physical evidence for the soul as far as I know. That is, no one has devised a controlled, repeatable experiment where it can be identified and measured according to any of the physical properties we understand. Some parapsychologists have tried without scientifically verifiable results.
The existence of the soul is therefore scientifically in doubt.

The concept of soul is a religious/philosophical one and not really a topic for discussion in this forum, but...

...you've raised the question and it deserves as much of an answer as I can give.

Assuming the soul exists (sic), and I do, since it is not observable by any scientific process, we must also assume it is metaphysical in nature, that is, spirit. This is variously defined by different religions.

The Christian Church at some point adopted the concept from Greek philosophy that the body and the soul/spirit are seperate entities and the soul departs the body at death, to be reunited with a perfected body at the resurrection. This would appear to mean that, at death, the soul has to go somewhere, and that place would be either Heaven, Hell or Purgatory, depending on your denominational affiliation. Personally, I've never been able to figure out how the resurrection fits into this concept, but that's another matter. The Protestant Millerites of the American 1840's modified this doctrine on the basis of Paul's repeated use of the word 'sleep' as a euphemism for death. They believed that the sleep was literal, that the soul became unconscious until the resurrection. The Millerites split around 1844 (when Jesus didn't return as their leader had predicted) into the Seventh Day Adventists and the Advent Christians.

Okay, let's move on to the idea of heaven. Biblically speaking, there are at least 3, as Paul speaks about having been caught up into the 3rd heaven (2 Corinthians 12:2). The first heaven is the sky of Earth, the atmosphere. The 2nd is outer space, including all its galaxies. The 3rd is where God 'lives' (if an omnipresent being can be said to reside in any one location).

The thing is, this 3rd heaven is also not scientifically observable and must also be of a metaphysical or spiritual nature. It does not lie within our universe, but it somehow intersects with it.

If we want to speak of these things scientifically, we might conjecture that the soul and heaven have properties of higher dimensions. String theory requires the existence of at least 11 and possibly 14. These dimensions include our own 4 but cannot be directly observed or measured by any instruments; they can only be described (to some extent) mathematically.

The thing is, any dimension 'above' the 4th (time) exists beyond time, incorporating all of it at every point. If the soul and heaven have extra-dimensional properties, they must therefore be timeless from our perspective. So there would be no time at all involved in the soul reaching heaven.

If, in fact, it goes to heaven upon death. Personally, I tend to think more along the lines of the older Jewish concept. This holds that the soul and body are inseperable, two sides of the same coin, if you will. Being timeless, the soul does not 'go' anywhere on death, it merely skips to the resurrection where it is the spiritual part of a perfected body.

For the record, the apostle Paul explains in I Thessalonians chapter 5 that, when Christ returns, dead believers will be resurrected and living believers will join them in meeting Christ in the air on His way back to Earth. This will usher in the Milennial Kingdom prophesied by Isaiah and describled in Revelation 20. During this time, Christ will reign over the Earth and Satan will be imprisoned. After 1,000 years, Satan is released for one final confrontation, the battle of Armageddon, which he loses. After this comes the final judgment where the unbelieving dead are raised to join Lucifer in Hell (the 'lake of fire'). Finally, the universe is recreated in perfection, having been purged of all evil. In reading all of this, I don't see Heaven as a dwelling place for the dead anywhere.

Then again, I don't claim to be any kind of final authority either.

Answer 3

As noted by others already, nothing travels faster than light IN THIS UNIVERSE. Since Heaven has been described as existing on another plane (which can be interpreted to mean another dimension or a separate reality from this one entirely), the laws of physics as we know them may very well not apply.

Also, the speed limit applies to matter or energy, anything that is bound by relativistic rules. Since there is no quantifiable science behind the nature or even the existence of such a thing as a "soul," it cannot be said to be composed of matter or energy as we understand it, and therefore cannot be proven to fall under relativistic rules, so you can't say for certain that it would move faster than light... or at all.

Answer 4

Well, you're talking about the spiritual dimension, which many people believe transcends all space and time. Theoretically that would mean a soul could be anywhere, anytime, instantaneously. The soul isn't a physical entity and as such would not be subject to the laws of physics...theoretically.

Of course, this is a tough one to "prove".

Peace!

Answer 5

Physics and religion are incompatable. If you took you apart atom by atom you would find not one gram of soul, or one of life for that matter. Even if you split each atom into a million pieces you could not ever find life - you'd just be a big pile of water, carbon, oxygen, calcium and iron. It is impossible to prove how fast a soul travels, because it is impossible to prove you have a soul. Why do souls need to travel fast anyway? Why does it have to be a macro heaven "somewhere out in space", why can't you have a microheaven which is just the thickness of a shadow away?

Answer 6

first concern - there is not any 'advent'. the form that we call 'our universe', rather is merely an 'experience'. it rather is a WILD place ! Stars are forming, galaxies are spinning, and different stars are exploding.. going nova or some, great-nova. In our photograph voltaic-device, lots of debris remains recent. and a few hits our little planet. As for 'comfortable working', because we don't stay very long, we people not often get to work out lots of the huge action. back in oh, approximately 1994, a disintegrating comet struck Jupiter. It replaced into somewhat an experience. The dark splotches have been even seen in little 60mm refractors ! asteroids HAVE slammed into earth. One huge crater is right here in Arizona. That happened at present.. in trouble-free terms 50,000 years in the past. So - regardless of in case you reside one hundred ten years.. it is in trouble-free terms a blink in time !

Answer 7

You're referring to supernatural beliefs of which the laws of physics cannot describe because "heaven", as desribed in the Abrahamic religions, is outside the universe, and anything outside the universe is not bound by the laws of physics.

So, if your soul were to go to heaven, it sure wouldn't get there through the natural means of physics.

Answer 8

Speed = 0

Answer 9

THERE IS A formula to calculate the speed of your soul to reach Heaven......

THE SPEED AT WHICH YOUR SOUL TRAVELS TO HEAVEN IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE POWER OF GOOD DEEDS YOU DID IN YOUR LIFE (WHEN YOU WERE NOT INSANE) AND INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO THE nTH ROOT OF BAD THINGS YOU DID (when you were not insane) !
and we can make an equation taking the constant "GOD" !

Answer 10

as far as science is concerned, there is no such thing as a soul.

and if there is, it doesnt follow the same physics of the physical world, because it exists outside of the physical world.