Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Friday, July 6, 2012
A matter of antimatter (part2)
Just a day after the all the hassle about the Higgs boson, the scientists at CERN has announced their discovery of it which took them decades after the theory of its existence was came up by the Peter Higgs fella. I just checked today on Wikipedia, they already changed the status of Hb from something like "Yet to be discovered" to "Tentatively confirmed..". He must have been proud for what he predicted to exist in 1964 came to be discovered through so much effort and cost and he's still alive to witness it.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
A matter of antimatter
Okay..I am going to warn you upfront..because i am writing a post concerning quantum physics, religion and a movie which i had no whatsoever knowledge or experience save SPM Physics which i continuously and deliberately skipped writing lab reports for some unexplainable reason.
Yesterday i was browsing Yahoo homepage as usual..which has been my browser default page and i stumbled upon an article about Higgs boson also known as 'God Particle'. It instantly sparked and intrigue upon me of how can some quantum physic thingy be named as such.
I read the whole article but i was far from understanding the whole of it except some basic things that i hope have not misunderstood. Subatomic particles are categorized into two which is bosons and fermions. The Higgs boson is still not proven of its existence but theoretically it is an elemental subatomic particle which its existence revokes the term 'atoms'..used for (of course)atoms which means 'indivisible'.
Them physicists say that every matter or atom or sub-atom or whatever particle has some kind of invisible, without mass, evil twin called antiparticle which has the opposite character, creating a symmetry of every matter in this whole universe. Now..the Higgs boson here is a very elemental particle making its other half what they believe to be the antimatter..the essence of the creation of matter..the beginning from the nothingness of the void.
The antimatter is supposed to be separated by the smashing particles using high powered particle accelerators. If an antimatter can be handled..it may be manipulated for the production of energy since the collision of antimatter with matter can create an explosion. The collision that supposedly 'developed' the universe (the Big Bang) to what it is today.
Initially i didn't read about it extensively until last night by crazy coincidence, i happen to watch the film Angels and Demons (which i thought was a horror movie), about how the adopted son of the Vatican pope trying to stage a series of terror attack supposedly by the infamous Illuminatti against the Vatican..so that he could emerge a hero winning the battle for the Christian faith against science.
These theories have been pursued by physicists to prove the natural occurrences that formed the universe, defying it of God's creation. But for me, all these scientific occurrences are only triggers that does not at all refute the idea of God's creation. As in Muslim belief that not even one single leaf would fall if not by the permission of God, that doesn't mean that it is directly God's hand that does everything. The Almighty has His 'sunnahs' for He had arranged for the universe to 'live' and evolve by itself. Wallahu a'alam.
Yesterday i was browsing Yahoo homepage as usual..which has been my browser default page and i stumbled upon an article about Higgs boson also known as 'God Particle'. It instantly sparked and intrigue upon me of how can some quantum physic thingy be named as such.
I read the whole article but i was far from understanding the whole of it except some basic things that i hope have not misunderstood. Subatomic particles are categorized into two which is bosons and fermions. The Higgs boson is still not proven of its existence but theoretically it is an elemental subatomic particle which its existence revokes the term 'atoms'..used for (of course)atoms which means 'indivisible'.
Them physicists say that every matter or atom or sub-atom or whatever particle has some kind of invisible, without mass, evil twin called antiparticle which has the opposite character, creating a symmetry of every matter in this whole universe. Now..the Higgs boson here is a very elemental particle making its other half what they believe to be the antimatter..the essence of the creation of matter..the beginning from the nothingness of the void.
The antimatter is supposed to be separated by the smashing particles using high powered particle accelerators. If an antimatter can be handled..it may be manipulated for the production of energy since the collision of antimatter with matter can create an explosion. The collision that supposedly 'developed' the universe (the Big Bang) to what it is today.
Initially i didn't read about it extensively until last night by crazy coincidence, i happen to watch the film Angels and Demons (which i thought was a horror movie), about how the adopted son of the Vatican pope trying to stage a series of terror attack supposedly by the infamous Illuminatti against the Vatican..so that he could emerge a hero winning the battle for the Christian faith against science.
These theories have been pursued by physicists to prove the natural occurrences that formed the universe, defying it of God's creation. But for me, all these scientific occurrences are only triggers that does not at all refute the idea of God's creation. As in Muslim belief that not even one single leaf would fall if not by the permission of God, that doesn't mean that it is directly God's hand that does everything. The Almighty has His 'sunnahs' for He had arranged for the universe to 'live' and evolve by itself. Wallahu a'alam.
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