Energy==GOD

[UP_Physics]

Since ENERGY governs all things in the universe, and energy is also the one responsible for the creation of the universe, can we say that GOD is the ENERGY?

 

[Asguard]

this is going to go to religion

 

[James R]

Yep.

 

[moonman]

Since energy IS the whole universe (matter is just a state of energy). In this respect God would be the universe itself.

I don't know if the universe is capable of moral jedgement, and if it would give a damn if it was. Since we are energy ourselves in some sense, energy is capable of inveting such a thing as 'morality' and 'judgement'.

 

[ConsequentAtheist]

Originally posted by UP_Physics
Since ENERGY governs all things in the universe, and energy is also the one responsible for the creation of the universe, can we say that GOD is the ENERGY?

I'm having some difficulty making sense of your "Since". What does it mean to say the "ENERGY governs all things in the, and energy is also the one responsible for the creation of the universe"? Energy (be it capitalized or not) governs nothing. As for the reast:

There are something like ten million million million million million million million million million million million million million million (1 with eighty [five] zeroes after it) particles in the region of the universe that we can observe. Where did they all come from? The answer is that, in quantum theory, particles can be created out of energy in the form of particle/antiparticle pairs. But that just raises the question of where the energy came from. The answer is that the total energy of the universe is exactly zero. The matter in the universe is made out of positive energy. However, the matter is all attracting itself by gravity. Two pieces of matter that are close to each other have less energy than the same two pieces a long way apart, because you have to expend energy to separate them against the gravitational force that is pulling them together. Thus, in a sense, the gravitational field has negative energy. In the case of a universe that is approximately uniform in space, one can show that this negative gravitational energy exactly cancels the positive energy represented by the matter. So the total energy of the universe is zero.

[ from Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, 1988, 129]

There is, by the way, a theology based on the assertion that the Universe is God. See, for example, Scientific Pantheism. Personally, I find the idea of Pantheism to be a bit superfluous.