Day 36: Truth

The illustrious quest for Truth with a capital T…

If one thing is certain, it is that the more you know the more you know how little we know. 

This somewhat backwards progress can be frustrating.  Take physics for example.  You have probably all heard about this concept called gravity.  But if you take anything above an introductory physics course, they will tell you that gravity is not some force that attracts massive objects to each other, but rather that gravity is simply curves in space-time (thank you Einstein and the theory of relativity). 

The particle accelerator people over at CERN might disagree with this, as they continue to search for the Higgs Boson.  This boson is thought to be responsible for mass, or the so-called “force” of gravity.  Basically they smash two particles together at ridiculously high speeds to break them apart, and they produce something like the picture below.

You can totally see the Higgs boson in that am I right!?

Ok, rhetorical questions aside.  The point is that the model of particle physics is incomplete.  We have an understanding of the world built upon fundamentals that are still unknown.  The theory of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity, two of our most conclusive and highly tested and proven theories, are incompatible with each other.  No one knows where gravity fits in.

(I’m not giving a very good name to science here, but trust me; they are doing some really cool things!)

On the more theological side of things, the quest for Truth is just as elusive.  We look for God in every corner of our lives, and we try to define God.  We try to put God in a box that we can understand and know, and label “God.”  But the bottom line is that it just doesn’t work like that.  The more we try to comprehend the creator of the universe, the more we fall back into knowing that God cannot be defined by human means. 

I suppose this is where faith comes in.  This is where we each yearn for a relationship with Jesus, the one who knows God, the one who is God.  The one who is fully human and fully divine.  Who is our intercessor to the Almighty.  The one who walks with us, on our search for Truth.