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With space craft of all kinds due to be "up there" looking around for things that some people believe are none of our business, it is obvious that the Rev. W. G. Pollard is getting heaven out of "ordinary space" none too soon [Oct. 13]. Nobody is going to invade "the fifth dimension" in a hurry, and perhaps it will never be even clearly envisioned except by those who frequent the twilight zone. Khrushchev may not buy this new heaven, but, fortunately, he can't prove it isn't a reality...
Three-Story Universe. Few physicists would hazard a location for heaven, but one who does is exceptionally well qualified. He is William Grosvenor Pollard, 50, executive director of the Institute of Nuclear Studies at Oak Ridge, Tenn. He is also the Rev. William Grosvenor Pollard, associate rector of Oak Ridge's St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. He uses his expertise in both fields in a stimulating, just published book: Physicist and Christian (Seabury Press...
Science, beginning with Copernicus, has knocked flat the old, literal, three-story concept of the universe-heaven in the top floor, hell in the cellar, the earth in-between. Physicist-Priest Pollard feels that a whole new imagery must be invented to depict for modern man the relationship between the natural and the supernatural...
...higher dimension is the result of a lower one moved perpendicular to itself. Writes Pollard: "Heaven, instead of being above us in ordinary space, is perpendicular to ordinary space, and the eternal is perpendicular to the temporal dimension. The transcendent and the supernatural, instead of being pushed farther and farther away from us with each new advance in astronomy, are again everywhere in immediate contact with us, just as the dimension perpendicular to a plane surface is everywhere in contact with it, though transcendent...
...space of higher dimension, the supernatural is just a question of one's dimensional status. For a two-dimensional body, a three-dimensional one would be supernatural, and the same logic applies to steps into the fourth, fifth and any other dimensions. In this context, says Pollard, "even the supernatural domains of heaven and hell, which have been so universally acknowledged in human experience, have as much claim on reality as does the restricted spaciotemporal domain which constitutes nature. The only difference is that the boundary between the natural and the supernatural is then rather differently drawn...