motion
When I was in college, all freshman engineering majors took the same courses: calculus, chemistry, physics, etc. Some of college physics was the same as high school physics: Newtonian physics, f=m times a (Newton's second law of motion). Distance=speed times time. Some of college chemistry was the same as high school chemistry--that all matter is composed of basic elements found in the periodic table. In atomic physics we learned that atoms are the basic particles of all chemical elements. Atoms consist of a nucleus of protons and generally neutrons, and surrounding the nucleus are orbiting electrons. In physics we studied Einstein's theory of relativity, f=m times c squared, where matter can be converted into energy, and vice versa, separated by the HUGE constant of the speed of light squared.
In my second year civil engineering students took courses in statics and dynamics.
Everything in our world involves motion--even those objects that we call "static". For example, many consider buildings and bridges as static, but they're not. They expand in heat and contract when it's cold. Earth tilts as it rotates around the sun. Other planets in our solar system rotate around the sun. Galaxies move. There's motion throughout the universe.
So, what does all of this have to do with heaven?
In Exodus 3: 13-14, God tells Moses "I am Who I Am".
Is it possible that in heaven that there is no motion? No time--past or future? only now?
God doesn't age. God doesn't change. God is always the same. Perhaps heaven is the eternal presence of unchanging God. Perhaps Jesus is the eternal conception by the Holy Spirit, Whose life, death, and resurrection is Eternal Now. No evil, pain, suffering and death. Only goodness, peace and tranquility. God's creation is restored. Praise God! Alleluia!
No motion required.
attribution: Erik Pitti and flickr
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