A WORLD OF WONDER

Wonder beckons our awe wherever we look, even within the tiniest crevices. Regis Nicoll comments on the orbit of the electron circling its nuclear home base:

• Unlike the Earth, whose orbit is slowly spiraling towards the sun, the electrons in an atom are held in fixed regions. But the real mystery is why, given its positively charged nucleus and negatively charged electrons, the atom doesn't quickly self-destruct. In fact, according to the laws of electrodynamics, atomic annihilation should occur in less than a microsecond. (Salvo, 2018, 15)

What are the laws that underlie atomic stability and what gives the laws their stability? Perhaps an equally great wonder is the nature of the "particles" that comprise the atom and everything we call "matter."

They are not sticky substances that magically adhere to grow up into planets, trains and planes. In fact, we cannot even call them "substances" but rather "potentialities."

The pioneer of quantum physics, Werner Heisenberg, surprisingly stated that subatomic "particles":

• Form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than things or facts.

This "reality" has led Nicoll to observe:

• ...the quantum potential is immaterial, omnipresent, omnipotent, eternal, and the ground of all being. It sounds a lot like the One who announced, "I AM," from a flaming bush on an ancient mountain. (16)

Wondrously, mere potentials have given rise to a "concrete material" world where science has been made possible.

Yet, on their most fundamental level, these potentialities seems to be mind-dependent. However, the stability and predictability of matter doesn't seem to depend on our capacious minds but on one superior Mind that give it their order. 

This, of course, is an additional and unwanted wonder for the materialist who would rather deny the existence of such a Mind.