Finding God in Physics: Einstein's Missing Relative by Roy Masters

by Roy Masters

This book tackles the fundamental why we and the universe exist. A Simple Despite the explosion of knowledge in the last few decades, much of physics still remains a mystery. We know little of how the universe really works, or how it came into existence. Fundamentals escape us - such as the actual cause of gravity. Even the behavior of light leaves us perplexed. For example, why does light maintain a constant speed? What regulates it? Why does it slow down as it passes through a crystal and then speed up on the other side? What energizes it? These are only a few of the exciting mysteries which Roy Masters brilliantly tackles in "Finding God In Einstein's Missing Relative." Einstein's Remarkable Einstein himself struggled to understand light, gravity, and time, profoundly questioning the physics of his day. Yes, he startled the world with his Theory of Relativity, but even Einstein failed in his most passionate quest - to find God in physics. Throughout his life he sought a "unified field theory" because he refused to believe in a chaotic, meaningless universe. Einstein was convinced there existed a unifying principle - a single theory containing the cosmic operating system. He believed this system would be both "simple and beautiful," and that it would profoundly reveal the hand of the Master Craftsman, the Unifier of all physics. This little book is an adventure in understanding Einstein's missing Relative - the truth about the unified field that eluded Einstein but in which he still passionately believed. Roy Masters seeks here to give answer, both simple and beautiful, to those many questions that occupy the searching imaginations of cosmologists and physicists all over the world. Can a simple theory provide the keys to a new understanding of physics? Stay tuned. With Masters' unified theory, the mysterious phenomena of gravity, light, and time suddenly become organic parts of a holistic system. Coherence takes the place of isolated scientific theory and, happily, we find ourselves at home in a very personal universe containing a time force that creates gravity, regulates light, and much, much more. All those who meditate on the meaning of life cannot help but be touched in the deepest possible way by this book. Here science and religion combine as we gain faith in the Creator by witnessing His spectacular creation as it unfolds out of nothing.

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First published December 1, 1997

About the author

Roy Masters—who in his 80s continues to broadcast the longest-running counseling show in talk radio history—started his journey toward understanding human nature in the most unlikely of places. Growing up in pre-WWII England, he watched a performer easily put his volunteer subjects under a hypnotic spell and induced each of them to do strange and outlandish things. How, the young Roy wondered, could a smiling, personable stranger cause well-dressed, educated, competent adults to forget their names? Puzzled by the mysterious power the hypnotist had exercised over his subjects, Roy distinctly remembers pondering the question: “Why can’t hypnotism be used to make people act sensibly, rather than foolishly?” Inspired by the idea of harnessing this baffling force for good, he later pursued the art of hypnotism and established a successful hypnotherapy practice. Over years of counseling as well as personal experience, Roy realized that the root of the power of negative suggestion lay in our wrong emotional response, and so he began to search for a way to help people overcome the hypnotic power of stress. After years of searching, he discovered a remarkably effective meditation method, and has been teaching it—with spectacular results—ever since. For over 50 years Roy counsels people primarily through his internationally syndicated daily radio program Advice Line, where callers discuss their most intimate problems and find genuine help and healing. He has served as a daily voice of sanity and conscience to his listeners, with the uncanny ability to zero in quickly on core problems. As the institutional home for his counseling work, Masters’ formed the Foundation of Human Understanding in 1961. Through his daily radio broadcasts, lectures, seminars, his 18 books, countless audio and video programs—and the Internet—he has helped millions worldwide. He has also established a successful prison outreach and an innovative private K-12 school. Beyond all this, and at a time in life when most people would have long since retired, an energetic Roy Masters is delving deeply into yet another long-time interest—physics and cosmology. He has authored “Finding God in Physics” as well as a more technical treatise, “Gravity Driven Universe” and has lectured on “Electricity from Gravity” at the American Physical Society in Denver. Roy Masters and his wife, Ann, have been married since 1952. They have five grown children and 18 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Reviews

[John · Rating 1 out of 5]

Delusion of grandeur. This book is unscientific drivel masquerading itself as novel insight.

[Rama Rao · Rating 2 out of 5]

Finding biblical God in physics

The author makes a desperate attempt to relate the gospels with the laws of physics. This book is principally written for Christian fundamentalists interested in finding God in physics. The reader must keep an open mind in understanding physical reality, and accept that established religions such as Christianism is man-made and the laws of physics is God created. Almost all scientists especially quantum physicists who understands the work of God much closely than anyone have always admitted that there is God, but their conception of God almighty is different from biblical descriptions. Albert Einstein believed God as an entity but not as the God the father of the New Testament.

The author quotes many physicists and philosophers in this book in a determined effort to substantiate that all laws of physics point towards the existence of God. It is true that Albert Einstein used the word God in many of his discussions with fellow physicists but his vision of God was limited to the understanding of physical reality as we observe and understand it through physics. One of the main proposals in this book is that the interstellar space is not void but it has some unknown force called the "original energy" that created the universe. This energy is manifested through the gravity and acts on matter in spacetime. The author's description comes close to dark energy although he doesn't call it dark energy: This energy is supposed to be at the root of Big Bang. But what was there before space, time and matter evolved? He postulates the existence of a pre-time force or original energy that controls the speed of light (similar to ether), and this time is an Omni-directional energy field from which the smallest particle called orgitron came into existence from pre-time force simultaneously creating space and time. The author concludes that the failure of physics is because it does not assume that God existed before Big Bang, and he quotes the biblical passages extensively to state that all unexplained phenomenon in physics may be understood through God. The author discusses his vision in 17 chapters but his concepts rarely flow through; it reads like a hotchpotch ideas tossed everywhere with very little support from physics.