GENIUS FORUMS

This is something I have often thought about, so present to you.

The speed of light is the extremity of speed, it cannot be exceeded or reached through the use of force. Can we say then that the speed of light is intrinsic to light? It requires nothing besides itself and is not changed in the way speed is normally changed.

If so then can we not use a similar scale for, say, God's power? That God occupies the extremity and is not subject to the normal laws.

You see if we take light as God, force as design and objects as objects (at least one point in the post will be right) then we can say that just as light does not need any force to propel itself to the speed at which it moves, God does not need to be designed to have the qualities He possesses. Hence He is simple and is exempt from the causal chain.

I have no doubt that this argument is flawed, I would just appreciate recognising the flaws in my logic. Maybe it will be fun for you guys to disect too. Thank you.

Marc wrote:The speed of light is the extremity of speed, it cannot be exceeded or reached through the use of force.

We don't know this for certain.

Can we say then that the speed of light is intrinsic to light? It requires nothing besides itself and is not changed in the way speed is normally changed.

Light has a certain speed in a vacuum, and a different speed through other mediums. But there may be things that can change the speed of light in a vacuum - we just don't know.

If so then can we not use a similar scale for, say, God's power? That God occupies the extremity and is not subject to the normal laws.

All things are subject to the normal laws, including light.

If God were literally everything, the All, then it would not be subject to the normal laws, as it would not be normal thing.

Kevin Solway wrote:If God were literally everything, the All, then it would not be subject to the normal laws, as it would not be normal thing.

If God were literally Everything, God would, in part, be the normal laws. God would also be the exception(s) to these laws if there are exceptions. I would argue that normally, God would be subject to normal laws - which would define "normal."

You exist on a 3D matrix. The speed of light limit is that which the software which generates the position of the various forces that appear 'real'. Likewise, by observing the placement of atoms on a crystal lattice, they discover that there is a minumum distance you can move an atom, IIRC, 10X-35 meter. This is a "pixel" of what passes for reality.