Physics: 1836 : 1 Is The (Biblically Relatable?) Mass of A Proton To An Electron.
Image, from Livescience.com is used under Fair Use policy for educational purposes only. The word hydrogen is listed as meaning "I bring forth water", or "I generate water." It is God who first generated everything, with Jesus beside Him as He did so. In the 2nd verse of the first chapter of Genesis, water (which relies heavily on hydrogen in its composition, as it is H2O) is mentioned:
"1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters." End quote.
Water showed up early when the Creation was begun. And the name Hydrogen brings God to mind in these interesting ways. How about Oxygen? It means SHARP (or ACID) plus PRODUCER. Jesus is the Word, and scripture says the Word is as sharp as a two edged sword as it searches our hearts. So yes, you can argue that Hydrogen is a very fundamental element indeed. Why shouldn't the Bible allude to it? Even the word ELEMENT's definition relates to the word RUDIMENT which means 'Unwrought'. And scripture refers to Jesus as a stone not cut (not wrought) by human hands. It's like this most basic element hints at Jesus in some ways. After all, Jesus was 'begotten' of God! Adam was 'wrought' by the hand of God. When we read those occasional stories of a large chunk of Antarctic ice breaking off and floating away I think of that chunk that floats away as being 'begotten' in a way by the part it breaks away from. Its substance is the same...it is 'less' than the main ice cap yet it is the same ice...it merely parted ways for a time. The great hydrological cycle will bring it back, in a manner of thinking, someday down the line. But if men had drilled and planted explosives such as to make a chunk of ice break off from Antarctica, maybe designing a fetching zig-zag edge into it for visual effect, that would be more along the lines of a chunk that was 'wrought' by human hands.
Christians believe that the entire Creation was brought to being by the Holy Father with Jesus there beside Him. The beginning of Genesis says so. So does the beginning of the Gospel of John. The Spirit of Wisdom was there rejoicing and taking delight also. It says that in the Book of Proverbs, chapter 8:
22 “The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works,[c][d]
before his deeds of old;
23 I was formed long ages ago,
at the very beginning, when the world came to be.
24 When there were no watery depths, I was given birth,
when there were no springs overflowing with water;
25 before the mountains were settled in place,
before the hills, I was given birth,
26 before he made the world or its fields
or any of the dust of the earth.
27 I was there when he set the heavens in place,
when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,
28 when he established the clouds above
and fixed securely the fountains of the deep,
29 when he gave the sea its boundary
so the waters would not overstep his command,
and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.
30 Then I was constantly[e] at his side.
I was filled with delight day after day,
rejoicing always in his presence,
31 rejoicing in his whole world
and delighting in mankind.
End Quote
And the Holy Spirit was involved. It is the Spirit of Truth that proceeds forth from the Father, the Spirit which guides seeking Christians towards 'all understanding'. It was an amazing time. But one of the takeaways from believing this about our beginnings is that we consider God to have complete knowledge of the future (pre-knowledge of all that the unfolding of time would reveal in human history, for instance) even then at the very beginning, and complete knowledge of all the smallest and largest material details of the Creation, of course, also. Additionally, there seems to be a highly suspicious number of cases where the writings of the Bible seem to illustrate a knowledge of Physics data and formulas, especially using the English/Imperial System of weights and measures, thousands of years before any modern Physicists worked out what those values even were. So it may be possible that this is yet another of those cases. Search 'Physics' on the Deeds of God website home page to pull up only those accounts.
Hydrogen is the most basic element. 1 electron orbiting a nucleus composed of 1 proton. Science believes that they have determined the mass ratio of an electron and a proton as 1 : 1836. It would take 1,836 electrons to equal the mass of a proton. So it is an extremely fundamental ratio since a Hydrogen atom is as simple as it gets; so the 1836 is a very fundamental numeral in the building of the universe. But...is it a Biblical number? Is the significance of that number built into the scriptures of the Holy Bible or built into Biblical history? Is it 'memorialized' in the Word of God as we are finding that so many Physics fundamentals seem to be? Maybe!
Strange side note: If you break up the word electron into elect and Ron then you have a word that means 'chosen' or 'selected' or things like that, coupled with a name that can translate as 'song of joy' or 'sovereign's advice' or even 'sacred name'. This is fairly evocative of 'Jesus' being attached to 'the chosen'. You have to admit that 'sovereign's advice' is not so far from 'God's Word'!
Proton apparently derives from a word meaning 'first' or 'first in time'. Jacob's sons were 'first fruit'. The 12 Apostles were 'first fruit'. But scripture tells us that some of the first will be last and some of the last will be first, so Jacob's sons and Apostles were first with respect to time in history. Some of their descendants will be of great (perhaps greater?) service to God we may assume, I think. God knows. Maybe that equates to being 'first in time'? But we do know that the sons and the tribes and the apostles will be incorporated into gates and foundations of the New Jerusalem God will one day lower down onto Earth. Hard to top that!
Nucleus is derived from a word meaning 'kernal' or 'little seed' or 'little nut'. In scripture, people are often likened to seeds, to grain plants, etc. Especially in His Gospels Jesus will liken people to seeds or grain plants in some places, but the The Apostles were seeds of Christianity leading to many Christians. Jacob's sons were seeds of God believers leading to a people numerous like 'the sands of the sea' not so many generations later.
But back to the number 1836! There is the year 1836 B.C. for instance. Some Biblical timelines say that Jacob (who God later renamed Israel) was born that year. From him descended God's chosen people, the 12 tribes of Israel. But don't ever be resentful of the 'favor' they received. They served as an example of both the riches of God's favor towards human obedience and faithfulness and the severity of God's discipline towards human misbehavior for all of these centuries. One thing He used them for is to draw us lost gentiles back to him if we would be wise enough to seek his forgiveness through Jesus.
Other timelines give other years for Jacob's birth, and I do not personally know which timeline is best. But several timelines gave the year 1836 B.C And that is interesting because Jacob became the dad of his 12 famous sons who became the founders of the 12 tribes of Israel. They followed their father Jacob around, working as a family and herding livestock. I feel like he sort of pre-figures Jesus dwelling among His 12 Apostles after His crucifixion. (After all, Jacob's father Isaac was literally almost killed as a sacrifice by his own father Abraham, but God Almighty would not have it actually occur and He stopped it. It was a gut-check, a test of Abraham's faith and Isaac's obedience. So Isaac would seem to represent Jesus during His years walking the Earth.) When some misled people tried to kill Jesus, the Holy Father would not fully allow it. Jesus is like a much mightier Jacob who arose from the dead after their attempt. Then He led His 12 as they spread His teaching of honoring God with all of your heart, mind, strength, and soul, and loving your neighbor as much as yourself, all across the face of the Earth. He let his disciples be harmed and even killed in cases, but their souls He guarded and saved for all of eternity. By faith we believe this.
And so Jacob...the one who was to lead 'the 12'...reminds me of Jesus leading His 12 Apostles as they went about their various missions as they embodied the primordial Church, the Bride of Christ, and caused it to grow into thousands and later millions and now finally billions of professed believers in our day. They are 'the Christian church'. And Jesus watches over His flock like a shepherd circles his sheep, as the moon circles the Earth, like an electron circles its natural counterpart...the proton (or nucleus)...as the centuries pass from one to the other, even until now which appears to be very close to His time of return.
So, the number 1836, so very fundamental to all of Creation, may have a Biblical connection to Jesus and to Jacob/Israel, who are both very fundamental for God's plan for human kind (Jesus being far greater, of course! He walked the Earth as the Son of God in human flesh.)
Is the makeup of Hydrogen, this most basic element, supposed to bring Jesus to mind? Is it supposed to call to mind Jesus who told the people of His day to follow him and not the 70 Jewish leaders of the Sanhedrin (who had become very wicked and worldly in Jesus' time)? The mass of Hydrogen is given as 1.00794 If you look at the number 1.00794 and go to the remainder portion...the 794...and then go to the Bible's 7th Book (judges), 9th chapter, and 4th verse you find there a man who convinces his people to quit following the '70' and to follow him instead. And just as Jesus wasn't accepted by the Jewish 'cream of the social crop' of His day, so this man also accepted as his followers those who were considered unacceptable, the ones that decent people looked down upon. Sinners!
Sort of odd, right...sort of unlikely to arrive at such an apt analogy exactly in scripture just where the numbers might lead you. And you can go there and see how he addresses 'his mother's clan'. The excerpted scripture I'm talking about is just below this paragraph. Mary was Jesus' flesh mother and from the tribe of Judah...the ruling tribe of the Israelites. Joseph was not Jesus' flesh dad, however. God Himself made Mary become pregnant. So this mention of the mother makes an odd little additional detail, possibly a supportive one to the idea this Deeds of God article talks about. Why not mention the father instead of the mother? They were a patriarchal people, the ancient Jews. And also, the name Abimilek means "My Father Is King". Jesus' Father certainly is King! Also, Abimelek becomes 'king' at the base of a great tree. Jesus became our king when he was crucified 'on a tree' as scripture sometimes puts it. So portions of this passage might be meant to pre-sage Jesus in some respects. And this most fundamental of necessary things (what Jesus did for us on the cross) may be foreshadowed in the structure of that most basic and necessary of elements...Hydrogen! Even the number 70 in the passages below can be compared or possibly related to both the 70 of the Sanhedren (the roughly 70 theological/political rulers of the Jews in Jesus day) and/or the first 70 disciples that Jesus sent out to reach out to others with the good news of the Gospel. From Judges (the Bible's 7th book) Chapter 9:
9 Abimelek son of Jerub-Baal went to his mother’s brothers in Shechem and said to them and to all his mother’s clan, 2 “Ask all the citizens of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you: to have all seventy of Jerub-Baal’s sons rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember, I am your flesh and blood.”
3 When the brothers repeated all this to the citizens of Shechem, they were inclined to follow Abimelek, for they said, “He is related to us.” 4 They gave him seventy shekels[a] of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, and Abimelek used it to hire reckless scoundrels, who became his followers. 5 He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, escaped by hiding. 6 Then all the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo gathered beside the great tree at the pillar in Shechem to crown Abimelek king.
End quote.
Kind of interesting, right?
But there is one other strange thing (numerically speaking) about the ratio of an ELECTRON to a PROTON. If you reverse the fraction and divide the mass of an electron (call it '1') by the mass of the proton (which appears to have been scientifically established as 1,836 times the electron's mass) then you have the fraction 1 / 1,836. This equals .0005446623
.0005446623
So, if you decide to numerically break it apart into Biblically relatable or highly symbolic numbers (which admittedly is a subjective exercise) you could decide to divide it into 5 then 44 then 66 then 23. The 5 might remind a person of how the Jews wandered the promised land in 4 groups of tribes (3 tribes in each cardinal direction as they marched) with the Levites (including their high priest Aaron) and their leader Moses and all of the Levites as a separate 5th group always marching separately in their center, as they learned unsuccessfully to try to follow Moses' Law. So, 5 is a number that could be representative as God moving along with His chosen people, training them and caring for them. The number 44 is said to be how long it took to build the Jewish Holy Temple. Some sources give this as the number. The number 66 is a number that seems to associate (to a flabbergasting degree) with occasions within the Bible and without, where God saves His people from disaster, in the nick of time...a disaster that often destroys their enemies at the same time. Being believers in the 66 book Protestant Bible may be one good example. The Puritans took 66 days to cross the ocean in search of their religious freedom is another example. They are a lot of examples! The Christians fled the Temple of God and Jerusalem, for instance, in A.D. 66 and were therefore not destroyed by the Roman siege that began destroying the city then and fully succeeded in A.D. 70. The Jews from all of the Jewish tribes who had become Christians survived. Those who stayed with the organized Jewish faith that had rejected Jesus...were largely destroyed by the Romans. Old writers said that no Christians died in that siege. They all thought they were seeing the signs they were told to watch for, and when the Romans briefly and unexpectedly broke the siege in A.D. 66 the Christians recognized their opportunity and fled the destruction they saw coming. And the number 23 is the number of The Bride! We humans are a creature with 23 chromosome pairs, and it is the 23rd which determines our gender. It is through use of the 23rd chromosome that God has provided all male humans with their female brides. But it is THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, composed of all of us sinful but redeemed humans who chose to follow Jesus as our Lord and to do His teachings, that group is Jesus' bride, the scriptures tell us.
So this very fundamental ratio can be numerically expressed as: God/Jesus dwells with His chosen people (5). Then they try to live under the many rules of Moses' Law, getting to practice their faith in His Temple...but they largely fail and most even reject their Messiah (44). But Jesus saves those who recognized and chose Him, leading them out of the unbearable weight of a form of worship that had so many rules that no man seemed able to follow it. Jesus saved them just in time. And Jesus brought His chosen ones out of danger just in time to be with Him. (66) And they became His bride, who has since born Him many children...many new Christian believers. (23)
.0005446623 .000 5 44 66 23
That is no more than a symbolic story I made up using some common and Biblically relatable numbers, in the order they occur in, that are found when you divide the mass of an electron by the mass of a proton (using the numbers apparently accepted by science at this time, and ignoring the zero's) but it is a story that is as important, as fundamental, as crucial as any true human story there is, one could argue. Truthfully, only God knows if He meant to hint at anything when He determined what the mass ratio would be between an electron and a proton. I am unlikely to have read it right unless the Holy Spirit guided me, which I do not know to be the case though I always pray for it when I write things. And the numbers do relate well and fairly enough to the telling of the story, the story of Jesus' redemption of His people, the people the Father granted Him, a group of people which He will one day offer back to the Father, returning all that is under His authority so that the Father can be all in all, as it seems to plainly tell us will happen in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, the verses culminating in 28.
God made the Creation. Scripture tells us that what we see in the Creation itself should be able to inform us plainly that the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob is the Creator who made it all. So, maybe in a great many ways the Creation truly does testify, though it is never, ever, ever to be worshiped. It reflects God's majesty, it does not replace it!! This ratio, 1836 : 1, may or may not be yet another such way. God alone knows for sure, we can only speculate and marvel at all that He has done, understanding only to the degree that He allows us to. Humans never could have made it. Humans will probably never understand more than a small part of it unless its Author decides to illuminate our understanding. So, human 'experts' should never take themselves too seriously I think.
Romans 1:20 :
20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
Psalm 19:1 :
“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims His handiwork.”