I was in lockdown when I received this question and was instantly intrigued.
To tackle the question, lets break it down a bit.
First, can God travel faster than light?
Lets just take the question at face value.
Light travels at an approximate speed of 3 x 105kilometers every second, or 186,000 miles per second.
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A few years ago, a group of physicists posited that particles called tachyonstraveled above light speed.
Fortunately, their existence as real particles is deemed highly unlikely.
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This in itself does not say anything at all about God.
It merely reinforces the knowledge that light travels very fast indeed.
Things get a bit more interesting when you consider how far light has traveled since the beginning.
Or rather, the observable universes existence.
And that leads us on to something even bigger than the universe.
But if inflation could happen once, why not many times?
And if such fluctuations can produce particles, why not entire atoms or universes?
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But how does God fit into the multiverse?
One headache for cosmologists has been the fact that our universe seemsfine-tuned for life to exist.
Some argue its just a lucky coincidence.
Some theists, however, argue it pointsto the existence of a Godcreating favorable conditions.
But God isnt a valid scientific explanation.
Of course, you cant disprove the idea that a God may have created the multiverse.
The theory enables something calledquantum entanglement: spookily connected particles.
Imagine a particle that decays into two sub-particles, A and B.
So if you measure the spin of A and you find it to be positive.
Imagine a friend measured the spin of B at exactly the same time that you measured A.
In other words, information about spin state was transferred between the two sub-particles instantly.
Such transfer of quantum information apparently happens faster than the speed of light.
So there is something faster than the speed of light after all: quantum information.
Even many universes at the same time?
Fortunately, God can multitask keeping the fabric of space and time in operation.
All that is required is a little faith.
Has this essay come close to answering the questions posed?
Perhaps the question is really one for agnostics, who dont know whether there is a God.
This is indeed where science and religion differ.
Science requires proof, religious belief requires faith.
Our views of God, physics, or anything else ultimately depend on perspective.
But lets end with a quotation from a truly authoritative source.
No, it isnt the bible.
Nor is it a cosmology textbook.
Its fromReaper Manby Terry Pratchett:
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
