What Is a Miracle?: An Attempt to Explain Miracles Scientifically through Quantum Mechanical Interpretation

Abstract

We generally define a miracle as follows: miracles are surprising events that transcend everyday empirical facts, abnormalities that cannot be properly explained by the laws of nature and the principles of science, especially as a result of supernatural and mysterious actions. However, when a miracle is defined in this way, the miraculous ‘divine actions’ should be considered completely separate from all ‘natural actions’ in our nature/universe. Since both natural order/law and miracles are given to this world by God’s common divine actions, we need a new interpretation beyond such a complete separation of the two. So now we may ask if we can find a single law/principle given by the same God and explain natural actions and transcendental divine actions as one comprehensive concept of ‘the divine actions’ by that law/principle. Therefore, if the natural order/law given by God the Creator in this nature/universe can be expanded to include miraculous divine actions, it will be possible to explain miracles through the ‘expanded natural order/law’. This article attempts to expand the ‘principle of least action’, which has been accepted as the most important principle in existing physics, to include the ‘divine action’. In particular, I would like to show that the quantum version of the ‘principle of least divine action’ is the principle that allows even supernatural miracles to be explained. This article attempts to present a modern, scientific, and original interpretation of the concept of miracles through the introduction of the new principle.