The Metaphysics and Science of Mormonism

"Father Lehi is on his death bed. He’s trying to share with his sons the last element of gospel testimony before he passes away. He’s pleading with his sons to acknowledge and recognize the great truths of the gospel. He said you must realize that there is a God and that he created everything either to act or to be acted upon. Now, there are two building blocks in the universe. One building block consists of an active ingredient. It acts. There is another thing that doesn’t act but it can be acted upon. Now, you’ve read that in second Nephi. I had read it. I’ve gone through the Book of Mormon as a teacher over a hundred times teaching it or studying it. Over a hundred times. It’s like President Mathiney said, 'My brethren, people keep adding things to the Book of Mormon for me. I keep finding new things.' Well, that’s one that I finally found. I didn’t find it on my own. Brother Widtsoe said, 'It’s there, now you look for it in the early part of second Nephi.' There it was, something to act and something to be acted upon. Put down D&C 93:30. 'That which acts,' the Lord said, 'is called intelligence or light.' Now, what’s an intelligence? No description, except that it’s like light. Everything that exists which is truth is filled with intelligence. Everything is filled with it. Now the best way for you to know about intelligence is to find out about it the way I found out about it." (The Meaning of the Atonement by Elder Cleon Skousen)
The idea that intelligence is what acts upon the elements of the natural world is unique enough but what's really interesting is the fact that the Lord describes it to Brother Joseph as light.  The reason I find it so interesting is because of "The Double Slit" experiment.
When you have a plate with two slits in them and them you throw say paintballs at it the ones that make it through will form a two band pattern on a screen set up behind the plate.  Which makes sense, but when you use waves through a double slit what happens is part of the waves that touch cancel eachother out and the parts of the waves that do not touch form a many bands on the screen behind the double slit plate.
Now, when electrons are fired at the double slit the interference pattern that develops when waves pass through a double slit emerge, even when one fires one electron at a time.  So in order to figure out how this is even possible scientists decided to observe the electrons as they pass, one at a time through the double slit.  And what do they find?  The electrons pass through one at a time but this time, when observed, they form the two band pattern that emerges when one deals only with particles and not waves.
That's right folks, the simple act of observing completely changed the outcome of the experiment.  As if the electron or light is intelligent.
If you think that is weird, take for instance another quantum conundrum-Entanglement.  When you take two particles that make up an atom, say and electron and a neutron, and you separate the two and act upon one particle the other responds instantly no matter how far away.  Bizarre as this may be it gets better because at the moment of the Big Bang all matter was entangled and thus we are all connected to the universe, and all life in it including each other.
And according to Dr. Dispenza in, Evolve Your Mind, your “brain processes about 400 billion bits of information every second. Usually, however, we are conscious of only about 2,000 of those bits of data.....The infinite information that the brain is processing every single second tells us that there's more to the world than we're perceiving,” says Dispenza.
For the wealth of information that exists, that we have access to, there is an entire Universe of knowledge, information and experience awaiting us within ourselves.
And then there is the concept of the ether or in modern parlance aether, so as to distinguish it from ether and it's 19th and early 20th century connotations."We may say that according to the general theory of relativity space is endowed with physical qualities; in this sense, therefore, there exists an aether. According to the general theory of relativity space without aether is unthinkable; for in such space there not only would be no propagation of light, but also no possibility of existence for standards of space and time (measuring-rods and clocks), nor therefore any space-time intervals in the physical sense. But this aether may not be thought of as endowed with the quality characteristic of ponderable media, as consisting of parts which may be tracked through time. The idea of motion may not be applied to it." (Einstein, Albert: "Ether and the Theory of Relativity") (1920), republished in Sidelights on Relativity (Methuen, London, 1922)
It has been postulated by John A. Widtsoe that this ether or aether is the substance that Joseph Smith was trying to describe when he said that "There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter." (Doctrine and Covenants 131:7-8) (May 17, 1843)
And that this ether that penetrates the universe and binds it and also is the universe, is in essence, the Holy Spirit and it is through the means of the Holy Spirit that God exercises control over the universe.  
Quantum Superpositioning is a theory described by wikipedia as "A fundamental principle of quantum mechanics. It holds that a physical system—such as an electron—exists partly in all its particular, theoretically possible states (or, configuration of its properties) simultaneously; but, when measured, it gives a result corresponding to only one of the possible configurations (as described in interpretation of quantum mechanics)."
According to this theory it may be, just may actually be, possible to prove that a man or say God could physically be in all locations at the same time.  John A. Widtsoe refuted the idea about God but that was back before he had the proof that such things were even possible according to this science available to him.  And the same critique will be made of me in another century, of that I have no doubt. 
The film available on youtube called "What the bleep do we know" is a total mind f@*k trust me but if this piques your interest in the metaphysical and theological implications of modern science then give it a go.  It will detail these theories I have presented much more thoroughly than I have space for.  And I see that it in no way violates the tenets of our faith but reinvigorates, broadens and strengthens them.  A lot of it reminds me of Taoism or Buddhism and yet Joseph Smith was chosen to restore truth above all else, so we should find a happy home in this brave new world emerging before us at the dawn of the new millennium. After all, our Gospel is supposed to be the source, the initial inspiration of all truth.  
And last but not least Joseph Smith did say "One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may." (Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 199)
As a final note I want to let everyone know I am writing a book of the same name as this post, currently I am researching for it but I will be writing soon and alas I will not be posting as frequently as I used to until it is finished.  I will provide information as to where to get it along with its price when the time comes.  Wish me luck!