Dimensions of the Universe

Dimension, is a word that comes from the Latin and it means “measured out.” It refers to the measurable limit or magnitude of the spatial extent that an object of matter takes up, usually noted in the length, width and height of objects.

Scientifically minded people love to discuss how many dimensions there “really” are in our universe and have had a lot of fun studying dimensional attributes of objects, a study which has lead some to pursue the possibility there may even be more than three dimensions in the physical world in which we live. Einstein for example, was one to "wow" the world when he added a fourth dimension. He called it time.

Whether or not Einstein was right-about time being the fourth dimension, if you asked most people with they would say that we live in a three-dimensional physical world of length, width and height. These are the obvious ones. A person can move around in three planes of direction, the first would be back and forth, the second side to side and thirdly, up and down.

If you ask most people the parts of an atom, they will tell you, the proton, the neutron and the electron. But nuclear physicists, who work with atoms everyday work with subatomic particles smaller than even an atom, they work with things called quarks, photons and neutrinos.

On a minuscule level, the universe is like a vast jungle for scientific exploration, and with that exploration comes the opportunity for explanation, the one who make the discovery gets to put the complexity of it all into words for our human understanding. Some propose that out there in the vast realms of smallness, things appear large,that is of course assuming you are very very small. Some suggest that there are minuscule compact dimensions that stretch across the universe that we cannot even ever see.

While we more casual observers debate and marvel at our own finite understanding of the universe, others are debating and defining Superstrings and Unified Fields, and the wonderful “Theory of Everything,” (called TOE) Curiously, all the while most of these people, thinking, breathing humans in fact, consider that a whole concept of a multidimensional being called God is really quite obtuse.

But Christians believe in God, sometimes they believe even when they do not see. They can even believe that it was God alone in the very beginning who by the power of his own concepts and by his own definition, created everything from nothing and made all things as they should be. In fact, it's even written in the bible.

Christians can look at Ephesians, chapter three and read, where the apostle Paul writes his prayer, that you,” May be able to comprehend with all saints what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.”

Funny, it looks like more than three dimensions going on there.