hi on september the 7th
2014 in an article in the daily mail the
famous physicist professor stephen
hawking
warns that according to his calculations
the planet we're living in
is unstable and therefore might collapse
this news unsurprisingly
sent the media world into a buzz dr
joseph licken a theoretical physicist
at the university of chicago confirmed
professor hawkins findings
when he said if you use all the physics
that we know now and you do what you
think is a straightforward calculation
it is bad news and it may be that the
universe we live in
is inherently unstable we're sort of
right on the edge where the universe can
last for a long time but eventually it
should go
boom there's no principle that we know
of that would put us right on the edge
dr benjamin alanak a theoretical
physicist at the university of cambridge
further elaborates on the reason for
this instability when he talks about a
particular particle that exists in the
universe
called the higgs boson particle the
observed 126 giga electron volts higgs
boson mass
seems to imply the universe does not
exist in the lowest possible energy
state
but is in fact positioned in a slightly
unusual place
if the higgs boson mass were really 127
giga electron volts
and the top mass were a little lower
than its most likely value
then actually the universe would be
completely stable and the vacuum would
be in the true minimum
meaning that under the simplest
assumptions the measured mass of higgs
could mean that the universe is unstable
and destined to fall apart
so basically according to numerous
physicists careful calculations and
computations
were all doomed the quran which sticks
back fourteen hundred years ago
substantiates the predictions and
calculations of physicists such as
hawkin
lichen and alanak the potential of the
universe collapsing and being wiped out
is real the creator of the universe is
well aware of what he created
but it's not all bad news the quran then
goes on to assure us
that god prevents the universe from
collapse when he writes in the quran
god holds the heaven from falling on the
earth furthermore
the quran states that god prevents the
universe from being wiped out
god holds the heavens and the earth lest
they are wiped out
so what will the end of the world look
like exactly and what part do the higgs
boson particles play in all this
in 1960 the british scientist peter
higgs predicted the existence of
tiny particles that we cannot see but
that are
in fact in us and all around us these
particles are responsible for giving
objects their mass and explain why
particles have the mass that they do
without higgs boson you and i and
everything we see around us
would have no mass and therefore would
not be able to exist
the other physicists at that time also
agreed with mr higgs that this particle
exists
as he had sound calculations to prove
his theory and they called these
subatomic particles
higgs particles after peter higgs
on march 14 2013 about half a century
after it was first predicted
scientists at cern the european
organization for nuclear research
tentatively confirmed they have found
the higgs boson particle
and the nobel prize in physics was
subsequently awarded jointly
to peter higgs and his colleague
francois englert
in order to discover the subatomic hicks
particle cern had built a large hadron
collider at the cost of about 10 billion
dollars
to simulate the conditions of the
formation of the universe
in 1993 a group of british physicists
went to the uk science minister at the
time
william waldegrave to ask if he could
help fund the building of the large
hadron collider
in order to help prove the existence of
the higgs particle
having no clue what they were talking
about mr waldergrove announced he would
award a vintage bottle of champagne
to the physicist who came up with the
best way to explain the higgs field and
the higgs boson
to the general public and it was
professor david miller who took home the
prize with his famous analogy
imagine a cocktail party of political
party workers
who are uniformly distributed across the
floor all talking to their nearest
neighbours
if the ex-prime minister margaret
thatcher enters the room
many of the workers will run toward her
and form a cluster around her
as she moves other workers run toward
her while the ones she has left return
to their places
because of the knot of people running
toward her forming a cluster
and then returning back to their spots
she acquires mass
these clusters which run towards mrs
thatcher and then disappear as they
return back to their spots
are an analogy to higgs bosons so if
that's the higgs field
how does the higgs boson fit into all of
this
let's pretend our crowd of partygoers is
uniformly spread across the room
now consider a rumor passing through our
room full of people
those near the door run to hear it first
and cluster together to get the details
then they return to their original spots
and tell their neighbours
who then run and cluster together to
hear it too then they return to their
original spots
and tell their next neighbours and so on
the result will be a wave of clusters
running across the room that disappear
as soon as they run
these clusters are an analogy to higgs
bosons
so to summarize higgs boson is an
elusive subatomic particle that we can't
see
but can see how it gives particles
substance or mass
it's essentially what gives shape size
and mass to everything that exists
but the problem is that the higgs
particle that the lhc had found
possesses a mass of approximately 126
giga electron volts
and this has made physicists rather
nervous because they believe it should
be
127. according to physicists such as
stephen hawking
joseph lichen and benjamin alanach this
discrepancy could very well mean the
collapse of the universe
and everything in it including you and i
as everything will become massless
and they are not alone in their
assertions in fact the quran also swears
that this will take place when the world
ends when it says it is the day when
people will be like scattered moths and
the mountains shall be as loosened
wool people like moths and mountains
like wool
sounds like mass loss to me but there's
something else too
in chapter 81 of the quran a chapter
where god describes in detail the events
of the end of the world
there are two particular verses that are
of great interest to us
and what we've just learned so verily i
gods swear by clusters you can't see
as soon as they run they disappear
that's the english translation
but the words used in the original
arabic are more nuanced than a
translation can express
three words in particular that are used
in this verse are khunes
and al johari alconas honest refers to
something invisible
and al jawari means something that is
running alcones refers to something that
disappears
and returns back to its original sport
so if we put the three words together
we're talking about
invisible clusters that run and that
disappear almost as soon as they appear
almost as soon as they start running
they stop and disappear
so what are these clusters that the
quran is describing
they're none other than the infamous and
elusive higgs boson particles
which explains why the end of the
universe will come about not due to
volcanic activity
meteor showers or an asteroid hitting
the earth as nasa claims
the universe will end due to mass loss
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