A Letter from God: We Stand at the Edge of Our Future

By Michael A. Reinman

The Earths population has reached over seven billion. Even as war, terror, and environmental catastrophes dominate the headlines, medical science and technology continue to improve our lives. Can we reconcile the two, or is our planet irretrievably lost?

Drawing on religious, scientific, and philosophical insights, physicist Michael A. Reimann combines theological and metaphysical views to show mankinds future in A Letter from God. In an easy-to-read style, Reimann transcribes Gods message to humanity and argues that we are at a turning point in our brief but spectacular history on planet Earth.

Reimann explores some of the doubts and perplexities humans have experienced throughout history and discusses how scientific discoveries continue to shape human evolution. But at the heart of this discourse is an urgent wake-up call. Overpopulation, pollution, disease, and dependency on fossil fuels continue to send us hurtling toward a crucial breaking point. If we choose to harness the power of technology, abandon organized religion, and practice environmentalism, however, we may yet survive.

A Letter from God offers an eye-opening, prescient window into humankinds potential destructionor potential salvation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Sep 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462051168

Michael A. Reinman

Michael A. Reimann was born in London, England, and immigrated to Canada where he graduated from the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. Reimann earned a master’s degree in applied science and a PhD in nuclear physics at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Contents

Preface

Introduction

The Letter

Creation

Survival

Unlimited Potential

Energy

Time

Space Travel and Aliens

Predicting the Future

Other Dimensions

A Spirit World?

Life beyond Life

Discussion

Opium of the Masses

Oil Is Forever and the Energy Race

The Mystery of Time

The Space Barrier

A Healthier Future?

The Great Unknown

References

To our children and grandchildren.

Face the future with optimism and excitement

for its unlimited possibilities.

Preface

The letter that gives this book its title is addressed to the people of Earth, which means everybody. But be warned: what you read in the following pages may not appeal to many of you, particularly if you are devoutly religious.

Faith takes many forms, and the beliefs entrenched in the minds of diverse races over the centuries of human history differ from each other in various ways, many of which conflict with each other. As most readers already know, these conflicts have become physical on many occasions, and racial or religious hate crimes are unfortunately still common throughout the world. Religious doctrines often stand in conflict with modern concepts of human rights. Belief systems passed down through generations do not tend to take easily to change, even in the presence of strong suggestive evidence.

While differences abound, the majority of today’s religions have in common the belief in a single deity. What you are about to read will not shake that concept but is hard on the earthly trappings that go with it. There is a harsh reality that must be faced in our future. It is ours to deal with, and while those who think God will provide the answers may well be right, they may be surprised at what those answers turn out to be.

As transcriber of the letter, I have taken the liberty of inserting headings to guide the reader through the rather long discourse. Occasional footnotes refer the interested reader to source materials for further reading.

MAR

Introduction

What, you might ask, qualifies a physicist to write about God? To most beginning students, physics is not particularly inspiring, having a reputation of being difficult, dry, and closely associated with another often dreaded subject, mathematics. After all, physics lacks the exotic smells and exciting special effects of chemistry, the romance of the arts, or the fascination of biology. But wait! Even the dullest subject can shine when brought to life by the right teacher.

Physics is the purest of studies for anyone truly interested in the world and universe we live in. Everything around us, near and far, what we see, touch, and feel, has attributes explained by the laws of physics. Objects are hard or soft, shiny or transparent, liquid or gaseous, because of their atomic and molecular structure. The interaction of molecules with each other that makes chemistry exciting, the fluid dynamics of air that allow heavy jetliners to fly, and the warmth of the sun that gives us life are all what they are because of the operation of the laws of physics. Nature itself is ruled by these laws. The orbits of the planets, the light of the stars, and the composition of the universe follow them absolutely. What better starting point can there be to seek the source of our being than in the study of what shapes our surroundings?

Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate and widely acknowledged as one of the greatest physicists of all time, said this: I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings. Benedict de Spinoza was a seventeenth-century philosopher who viewed God and Nature as indistinguishable.

The subtitle of this book is We Stand at the Edge of Our Future.

Propelled by its biological imperatives, the human race has reached the top of