Does the theory of relativity have any spiritual implications?

Question

Relativity could effectively connect all physical quantites. light, time, energy, mass,veocity . was it suffitient to explain different states of sprit?

Answer 1

Well there are two theories of relativity.

The first's claim that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light and that in a vacuum light always travel at the speed of light has very little spiritual implication unless one was to claim a spiritual entity could travel or affect something faster than this speed.

A second claim being that mass and energy are interchangeable DOES have a spiritual implication. If the soul leaves a body at the time of death, shouldn't the body have less mass? For the energy to be released it must either exist presently as energy and be detectable or be created from mass, the reduction of which we should be able to detect, along with where in the body the exchange came from. Even accepting that the energy becomes one of the massless or so far undetectable base particles of the universe (such as the graviton) the universe has a finite number of elemental particles (not to be confused with periodic elements, we are talking the smallest particles, photons, electrons etc.) and spiritual energy in any form must be made up of one or more of these particles. If we finally become able to detect all of them with utter certainty, will we be able to detect souls? or God? If we can't, does that mean they don't exist?

Answer 2

The theory of relativity can not apply to Spiritual things because there is an absolute truth that does not need interpretation to define it. The truth does not depend upon someone's belief to make it true. The tree that falls in the forest DOES make a sound even if no one hears it because God has decreed it to be so.

Answer 3

Nope.

Answer 4

it suggests that there really isn't anything special about us, which runs contrary to many religious doctrines...

Answer 5

No it doesn't! Perhaps it should though!

'-)

Answer 6

No.