Is Heaven real? Science may reveal where God’s eternal kingdom exists

When our lad was 4 years old, helium asked my woman and me: "Can you thrust to heaven?" Out of the rima of babes, right?

It’s a question lone a kid would ask, but it raises a precise big question: Where precisely is the eden described successful the Bible?

As a scientist, I recognize the value of definitions. According to the Bible, the lowest level of eden is Earth’s atmosphere. The mid-level eden is outer space. The highest-level eden is what we’re talking about: It’s wherever God dwells.

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As for heaven’s location, the Bible contains galore verses that picture america arsenic looking "up" astatine God successful heaven, and God arsenic looking "down" astatine america connected Earth.

Imagine boarding a nuclear-powered rocket and traveling consecutive "up" into heavy space. Will you ever scope a constituent acold capable "up" into abstraction that you yet scope heaven?

Before you laughter disconnected the idea, see this.

In 1929, American attorney-turned-amateur astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that galaxies are rushing distant from 1 different similar truthful overmuch shrapnel from a bomb. Hubble besides discovered there’s a definite signifier to however galaxies are rushing distant from each other, namely: The farther "up" successful abstraction a postulation is located — the farther distant it is from Earth — the faster it’s moving distant from Earth and everything else. It’s called Hubble’s Law.

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But, here’s wherever it gets truly interesting.

Theoretically, a postulation that’s 273 cardinal trillion (273,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) miles distant from Earth would determination astatine 186,000 miles per second, which is the velocity of light. That distance, mode "up" determination successful space, is called the Cosmic Horizon.

That means you and I tin ne'er scope the Cosmic Horizon — not adjacent aboard the astir souped-up, nuclear-powered rocket imaginable — because, arsenic Einstein explained successful his mentation of peculiar relativity, lone airy and definite different non-material phenomena tin question astatine the velocity of light.

So, then, wherever is eden located, exactly? It’s wholly imaginable eden is located connected the different broadside of the Cosmic Horizon. Here’s why.

One: According to modern cosmology, an full beingness exists beyond the Cosmic Horizon. But it’s permanently hidden from america due to the fact that we tin ne'er reach, fto unsocial transverse over, the Cosmic Horizon.

Two: Our champion astronomical observations — and Einstein’s theories of peculiar and wide relativity — bespeak that clip stops astatine the Cosmic Horizon. At that peculiar distance, mode "up" determination successful deep, deep, heavy space, determination is nary past, present, oregon future. There’s lone timelessness.

Three: Unlike time, however, abstraction does beryllium astatine and beyond the Cosmic Horizon. Which means the hidden beingness beyond the Cosmic Horizon is habitable, albeit lone by airy and light-like entities.

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Four: According to modern cosmology, the Cosmic Horizon is lined with the precise oldest celestial objects successful the observable universe. That means immoderate exists beyond the Cosmic Horizon predates these oldest objects … predates the alleged large bang … predates the opening of the observable universe.

All these modern technological realities, and others, are wherefore it’s wholly tenable to speculate that:

1. Heaven is, indeed, located "up" determination — mode supra our heads and mode beyond the visible, starlit beingness — conscionable arsenic the Bible indicates.

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2. Heaven is inaccessible to america mortals portion we’re alive, conscionable arsenic the Bible indicates.

3. Heaven is inhabited by nonmaterial, timeless beings, conscionable arsenic the Bible indicates.

4. Heaven is the dwelling spot of the One who predates the beingness — the One who created the beingness — conscionable arsenic the Bible indicates.