Indulging the Imagination of the New Heavens and the New Earth

And there will be a new heaven and a new earth...what will that be like? Simply more sunny days, a little less litter on the streets, a few more daisies by the roadside? An absence of poison ivy, a taming of ticks, a muzzling of termites? St Paul tells us that it is more than these mere improvements. It will be more than eye can see or ear has heard. We should perhaps sometimes indulge our imaginations. Perhaps our eyes will be able to see quarks and the strings of string theory. Perhaps we will be able to hear the vibrations; perhaps we will be able to see the music.