Is the Universe Just a Spiritual Phenomenon in Disguise?
What keeps every particle in the universe dancing so perfectly? What's the force currently limiting nature's laws and keeping the cosmos in motion?
- דניאל בלס
- פורסם ד' אדר א' התשפ"ד

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Imagine if we could literally see the hand of Hashem working before our very eyes, much like the splitting of the Red Sea. Interestingly, science is edging toward this surprising conclusion.
To grasp this, picture a glass full of water. What gives the water its shape? It's simple: the glass that holds it. And what if the glass were to suddenly vanish? The answer: the water would spill and lose its form immediately.
From this example, we learn that maintaining form requires a constant limiting force. If the limiter disappears, so does the form.
Once we understand this basic principle, a scientific question arises: why does nature continue to hold its form?
Many of us look at the world and feel it's solid and stable, unmoving and unchanging. Even a small stone feels firm and steadfast to the touch. Why would a stone need a limiter?
Well, science has discovered that this stability is just an illusion!
It turns out that all the materials around us are made of extremely tiny particles that don't actually touch each other. They float in empty space, moving continuously at unprecedented speeds. These calculated and consistent motions of the particles create atoms and molecules. But if they were to stop moving even for an instant, everything we see around us—trees, buildings, stones, land, water, sky, the world, the moon, the sun, and all the stars—would disintegrate and vanish.
Imagine that the chair you're sitting on, the ground you stand on, and even your own body aren't truly solid and stable as they appear. Instead, they are tiny points moving at incredible speeds, creating everything visible and tangible.
So who is powering all this? What drives these particles throughout the universe so perfectly? What is the force currently limiting nature's laws and perpetuating the universe?
Science doesn't have the answer, but scientists have labeled these mysterious forces with names like "nuclear force" and "gravity."
Picture a miracle like the splitting of the Red Sea continuing for thousands of years without stopping. Surely, scientists would name such a miracle something intriguing like "Yamsuf Split Force" and teach it as a completely natural phenomenon in universities... Apparently, we've grown accustomed to nature's operations, and this habit misled us into mistakenly perceiving it as a natural event.
Professor David Weiss, a doctor and cancer researcher, stated in an interview, "To explain not just the creation of the world, but also the fact that this atom, this molecule exists, and instead of exploding stays in an orderly fashion—I must admit the existence of the Great Architect" (Haaretz supplement, July 26, 1996).
Without Hashem's constant supervision, nothing would necessitate the continued existence and the laws of nature, and everything would instantly revert to chaos, just as water would fall and lose its shape without the glass to hold it. Thus, nature serves as a spiritual proof of Hashem's reality.