Unlocking the Universe: The Hidden Code Behind Galaxies and Stars

Many people have heard various facts about space and mistakenly believe that galaxies simply coalesce on their own from previous materials, that stars form and fade randomly... It's important to correct this common misconception.

Physics is deterministic, meaning it describes a fixed and unchanging system of laws. It's crucial to emphasize that physics does not make any claim of a random evolution of the universe!

Let me use a simple analogy to illustrate the point: In a computer game, as is well known, different characters appear, moving in certain directions. A child who knows nothing about computers might think that the characters just appeared on the screen on their own and move randomly. But those who have learned know that behind the characters is software—lines of code programmed by a programmer or a team of programmers—and these codes mandate the appearance of the characters on the screen. A lion character couldn't be a horse, and a horse couldn't be a lion. Even if the characters seem to move randomly according to their will, they actually move according to pre-existing rules: A dog character can't walk on the ground in the game, and a bird character can't fly in the skies in the game without the codes that define their actions.

Similarly, the universe is built according to an extremely precise mathematical software known as "laws of nature." These laws of nature are exact mathematical equations, similar to software codes, which necessitate the formation of atoms, galaxies, and stars in this exact way, and not in any other. If we take the atom, for example, nuclear forces in nature cause protons and neutrons in the atom to coalesce into a nucleus, and electrons to move around them in orbits. When we look at different materials in nature, like water or gold, we find a "periodic table" of about one hundred different elements according to the laws of chemistry. Gravity causes Earth to orbit the sun, and the moon to orbit Earth like a satellite—all these operate through highly designed laws, not randomness.

In fact, any minute deviation from the initial plan would lead to the software's collapse—the universe's collapse. As Professor Stephen Hawking aptly expressed: "If the expansion rate of the universe one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would have re-collapsed before it ever reached its present size!" (A Brief History Of Time, pp. 121-125).

What's astonishing is that there is actually no scientific reason that mandates the continuous operation of the laws of nature. It's understood that without the constant supervision of the Creator, blessed be He, the universe would simply revert to chaos, just as, to draw a parallel, a computer won't continue working without a constant power supply. Thus, the universe operates according to a brilliant logic, testifying to the wisdom of the Creator, blessed be He, who "renews the work of creation every day, constantly."