Lately, I've been reading "The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene and trying to catch up on a lot of the physics that I'm interested in that I never took in college. From reading his book and questions about the nature of information, I was wondering if anyone has used this information towards theists about communicating with their God, especially through prayer.

It takes eight minutes for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth, and the speed of light is the Universe's speed limit. As God isn't on Earth (I mean, I've never heard from people that say he dropped by the local drive-thru for a hamburger), anyone who appeals to God audibly has that appeal go only at the speed of sound. We have machines that travel faster than that speed.

So I guess what I'm driving at is that if God were actually listening to audible prayers at a distance as far away as the Sun, it would take 120,936 hours approx. to get the sound waves to God. That's a little over 13 years. If God wanted to talk back, that's another 13 years.

If a Christian tells you an audible prayer was answered, we now have a way of determining exactly how far away "God" was to "answer that prayer". Either God's in the building when Benny Hinn is huckstering for faith healings, or he's full of shit. I'm perfectly content with option B.

But let's go with option A for a moment. Wouldn't the air pressure of the building go up with an infinite God in residence? How about the temperature, as that's a measure of motion? Would God displace all the oxygen in a building and cause all those lovely believers to asphyxiate?

If these are arguments that have been used before, feel free to point me in that direction, or if some of our stronger scientists could elucidate on what I'm driving at, I would appreciate it.

 

God uses wormholes. :P