Physics

Allusions in the Bahá'í Writings to the Potential for Specific Future Discoveries (and potentially encouragement for us to work towards them)

• Transmutation of elements

Time-travel and Teleportation?

Possible through the divine force of magnetism - Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, pp. 197-198, no. 166

References to Physics Concepts and Truths which have since been discovered (or under discussion)

Atomic Energy

"The words of Baha'u'llah regarding 'a strange and wonderful instrument...' can, in the light of what the Master said in San Francisco, be taken as a reference to the great destructive power atomic energy can be made to release."

(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, March 16, 1946, quoted in Lights of Guidance , no 1585, p. 480)

Astonishing things exist in the earth which could lethally contaminate its whole atmosphere

"Strange and astonishing things exist in the earth but they are hidden from the minds and the understanding of men. These things are capable of changing the whole atmosphere of the earth and their contamination would prove lethal."

(Bahá'u'lláh, Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, Kalimát-i-Firdawsíyyih, p. 69)

A scientific discovery lays undiscovered which could destroy the whole earth

"Scientific discoveries have increased material civilization. There is in existence a stupendous force, as yet, happily undiscovered by man. Let us supplicate God, the Beloved, that this force be not discovered by science until spiritual civilization shall dominate the human mind. In the hands of men of lower nature, this power would be able to destroy the whole earth."

(The Chosen Highway by Lady Blomfield, `Abdu'l-Bahá and a Japanese Diplomat (1912), cited in Japan Will Turn Ablaze, p. 51)

References to Physics Concepts for Metaphorical Purposes

Fire:

• https://bahai-library.com/compilation_fire_symbol

Reference to rejected physics Concepts

• https://bahai-library.com/uhj_infallibility_abdul-baha (on discussion of "ether")

• Fourth dimension