#ASTRONOMY - Part 1/3: DARK MATTER vs. Spirit & Physical Matter My Personal Views: I hope you will enjoy my new spiritual thought (at the best of my own knowledge) on my Facebook Page (LoveMormonQuotes) and that it won’t be too weird. Feel free to share your thoughts and comments about it. BLACK MATTER: Modern scientists have estimated our universe to contain over 200 billion galaxies (range from dwarfs with as few as ten million stars to giants with a hundred trillion (1014) stars). Early in the last century, “dark matter” was discovered which is now estimated to constitute about 85% of the total matter in the universe. “In astronomy and cosmology, dark matter is a type of matter hypothesized to account for a large part of the total mass in the universe. Dark matter cannot be seen directly with telescopes; evidently it neither emits nor absorbs light or other electromagnetic radiation at any significant level. Instead, its existence and properties are inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter, radiation, and the large-scale structure of the universe” (Dark Matter, Wikipedia). To my understanding, scientists call it “dark matter” not because it is black or dark but because it cannot be observed with our naked eyes or modern telescopes even if we know it is there. Without this dark matter there wouldn’t be enough gravitational pull to hold the stars together in galaxies and to keep the galaxies together in galaxy groups or clusters (with groups containing up to 50 galaxies and clusters up to several thousand galaxies held together by mutual gravitational attraction) or superclusters (are large groups of smaller galaxy groups and clusters and are among the largest known structures of the cosmos). Just for extra info, our solar system is located in the Milky Way galaxy, which in turn belongs to the galaxy cluster called Local Group ( comprising more than 54 galaxies, counting dwarf galaxies), which in turn belongs to the galaxy supercluster named Local Supercluster (sometimes also called the Virgo Supercluster that is thought to contain over 47,000 galaxies). CREATOR OF WORLDS: In the Scriptures, we learn that under the direction of His Father Jesus Christ is not only “the Father of heaven and earth” and “the Creator of all things from the beginning” (Mosiah 3:8, 2 Kings 19:15) but also of “millions of earths” (Moses 7:30) and “worlds without number” (Moses 1:33-35, Hebrews 1:2, 11:3), created for the main purpose to be inhabited (D&C 49:16-17) and “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man” (Moses 1:39). Where are those millions of worlds and inhabited earths like ours? To my understanding, they are simply hidden from our mortal views or our mortal eyes cannot contemplate all of them. Hereafter, here is two main reasons I found on how so many worlds (and angels) and so much matters are hidden from our mortal eyes: TELESTIAL STATE: First, after the Fall of Adam, our world passed from a terrestrial (immortal or not subject unto death, 2 Nephi 2:22) to a telestial state (subject unto death, Moses 6:48), in which it is possible that we are no more able to observe matter of another nature than ours, like the terrestrial and celestial matter (like the resurrected worlds). If that’s the case, our mortal eyes are only able to beheld that part of our life and universe which is of a telestial nature. Who knows how much more celestial objects will be visible in our sky (and maybe even in our own solar system) once our earth shall return in its terrestrial state when Jesus Christ shall come “in the glory of his Father with the holy angels” (Mark 8:38) to inaugurate the Millennium. SPIRITUAL VS. TEMPORAL MATTER: Second, it is because some of the matter in our universe is made of “spiritual matter” (and not physical or temporal), of which the Prophet Joseph Smith taught (in 1843) that, “There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes; We cannot see it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all matter” (D&C 131:7-8). The Scriptures teach that God “created all things... spiritually, before they were naturally upon the face of the earth” (Moses 3:5, Genesis 2:5, Colossians 1:16). All man, animals and plants, and worlds, were first created spiritually, and then physically “in the likeness of that which is spiritual” (D&C 77:2, Moses 6:63).
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:25:28 +0000
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