The Hand of God?

Newton's cradle, as shown in the included image, could give us the most simple yet critically accurate expression of the fibre of the universe. Imagine a 'field' composed of trillions upon trillions of physical units, and a force within them driving the manifestation of what appears to us as matter - all subatomic particles.

The force within newtons cradle gives birth to the moving "particle" at the end of the line of balls. 

Think with this analogy: Matter is forced into existence, as a wave action (observable matter is a wave action), driven by the force within the field. Like Newton's cradle, it resonates in and out of existence, as it moves from a kinetic action (making it transparent) then back into a pure force within the field, in a cyclic manner. Exactly like newtons cradle.

Indeed, if matter works this way (and it looks as though it does) it would explain the 'bizarre' phenomena of elections instantly disappearing and reappearing hap-hazardly, from point-location to point-location. Are electrons just excitations bouncing in and out of the field, with the field being the true substance of all matter? Probably.

Also, the static force within the field may conduct over distance exceedingly quickly. It could be incomparably faster than the speed of light - or even instantaneous. 

Electric Universe theorists call the force within the field the electric force, and claim it must be at least 20 billion times faster than the speed of light, as required for the universe as we know it to even 'work'. Maybe they are right. If manifest matter is ultimately just a wave action, then the field is the true universe in terms of substance. 

The field may also be the foundation of other 'emergent' universes, of which are derived from the same field that generates other wave-actions (particles), though at different frequency groups to the wave-actions that make up our own known universe, which may make them completely invisible (to us) because we simply don't react with them, in everyday life. 

-It's the same thing as your radio only playing back the frequency it's tuned to. Your body and all matter is a 'radio' within the field, which in turn ignores all other wave-actions that it's not tuned to.

Within the field could be organised intelligence. Why not? If a comparatively crude brain can think, using chunky atoms and molecules, then a field could well support a 'thinker' and to an unimaginably superior extreme in terms of information processing potential. 

If the intelligence of the field (if it exists) can strategically direct forces within the field, then that intelligence could create life, worlds and galaxies, and possibly in the instant. It could contain the developed template of all kinds of structures, including living structures. It could support one massive hard-drive, ready to download the next Cambrian explosion when a given planet is ready to receive it.

And what about consciousness? That could be based in the field, as well. In fact analysis of the non-locality of consciousness already suggests this. This would mean that when, and if, our manifest bodies decompose, then that would not mean our consciousness ends because of it, as our consciousness would have nothing specifically to do with our bodies, in the same way that the internet has nothing specifically to do with your PC. 

However, we can think no further than the question of consciousness, because consciousness is as good as magic because it's absolutely impossible to conceptually understand. Though the field, as a force linking everything together, including all matter and knowable existence, can be described as the hand of God: All powerful, all intelligent, everywhere in immediate time and everything.

--and hey guess what? I managed to say all of that without any refence to anything non-structural, or fancifully esoteric. It was a fair speculation that respects the status of both our knowledge and our ignorance.

I wrote further on this topic, here.