GOD in modern terminology: A brief alternative approach towards GOD (A different perspective):

What can we say about God? And what exactly is God for us? Is it something supernatural or magical? What will we call God using modern terminologies?

By: Aryaneel Shivam

The different outlook:

What can we say about God? And what exactly is God for us? Is it something supernatural or magical? What will we call God using modern terminologies? 

This chapter brings all these questions forward and tries to answer them all, using references from various studies and works. 

So first, in order to get knowledge about the power that the so-called “God” hold, we need to understand something called the “Kardashev scale.”

The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy it is able to use. The measure was proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964.

The scale has three designated categories:

• Type 1 civilization: called a planetary civilization – can use and store all of the energy available on its planet.

• Type 2 civilization: called a stellar civilization – can use and control energy at the scale of its planetary system.

• Type 3 civilization: called a galactic civilization – can control energy at the scale of its entire host galaxy.

At the current time, humanity has not yet reached Type 1 civilization status. Physicist and futurist Michio Kaku suggested that, if humans increase their energy consumption at an average rate of 3 per cent each year, they may attain Type I status in 100–200 years, Type II status in a few thousand years, and Type III status in 100,000 to a million years.

• Types 0, IV and V Kardashev rating:

The most straightforward extension of the scale to even more hypothetical Type IV beings who can control or use the entire universe or Type V who control collections of universes. This would also include Type 0 civilizations, who do not rank on the Kardashev scale. The power output of the visible universe is within a few orders of magnitude of 1045 W. Such a civilization approaches or surpasses the limits of speculation based on current scientific understanding, and may not be possible. 

Extending our definition:

To understand the power of “God” we have to extend our scale further more. There is another way of measurement: 

• Type I-minus: is capable of manipulating objects over the scale of themselves: building structures, mining, joining and breaking solids;

• Type II-minus: is capable of manipulating genes and altering the development of living things, transplanting or replacing parts of themselves, reading and engineering their genetic code;

• Type III-minus: is capable of manipulating molecules and molecular bonds, creating new materials;

• Type IV-minus: is capable of manipulating individual atoms, creating nanotechnologies on the atomic scale and creating complex forms of artificial life;

• Type V-minus: is capable of manipulating the atomic nucleus and engineering the nucleons that compose it;

• Type VI-minus: is capable of manipulating the most elementary particles of matter (quarks and leptons) to create organized complexity among populations of elementary particles; culminating in:

• Type Omega-minus: is capable of manipulating the basic structure of space and time

The human civilization is somewhere between type III-minus and types IV-minus according to this classification.

Now, taking all the information and references from above, we can conclude that to be a “God-like” civilization, it has to be a Type Omega-minus or above; which will extend over the standard Type-3 Kardashev scale civilization or maybe a hypothetical Type-5 Kardashev scale civilization and above.

At this point of time, comparing God’s with the Kardashev scale may seem absurd but we have to keep in mind the fact that the current definition of God’s that we have now are all from various ancient scriptures and mythologies, those were written in ancient times using their way of describing and their language. Things were described from the past point of view. Now, for example if I were to travel back to the timeline of Mahabharata or Ramayana, and show them a smart phone, or most preferably a computer screen, they would term is as a magical mirror with supernatural powers that can show anything that you want and can provide you with infinite knowledge. But in our time, its simply a computer! 

So you see, the ways of describing things differ with the advancement of technologies and terms. Therefore to understand “God” we have to leave the ancient ways of describing God and see it from the current perspective using modern terminologies.