Science is sometimes seen as the antithesis to religion.
But a Harvard scientists claims a mathematical formula actually proves God’s existence.
Dr Willie Soon, an astrophysicist and aerospace engineer, recently spoke on the Tucker Carlson Network, where he detailed how the prediction of antimatter in 1928 suggests the universe had an intentional design.
Dr Soon referred to the ‘fine-tuning argument,’ which suggests universe’s physical laws and conditions are precisely suited for life to exist and that it is highly improbable this occurred by chance.
Antimatter and matter formed together after the Big Bang, but there’s less antimatter in the universe. Antimatter has the opposite charge of matter, so if they were equal, they would cancel each other out.
The asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the universe is interpreted as indicative of intentional design.
Dr Soon said that there are moments in physics or mathematics that have no connection to the real world, but they still turn out to be true, like Cambridge professor Paul Dirac’s equation that broke the known laws of physics.
Dirac is considered the ‘father of antimatter,’ accidently finding it existed before it was actually confirmed in 1932.
Dr Willie Soon suggested that the elegance and predictive success of Paul Dirac’s equation may hint at a purposeful design in the universe
Dirac was working to solve why some particles can move faster than the speed of light. Scientists had equations for slow-moving electrons, but subatomic particles remained a mystery.
The professor combined Albert Einstein’s famous E=mc equation with Schrödinger’s equation from quantum mechanics.
Einstein’s formula found that an object that has a mass cannot travel at the speed of light, while the other predicts the probability of finding a particle in a certain location at a given time.
The initial solution did not work, so Dirac added an extra type of electron with negative energy.
The result baffled the scientific community, adding a new mystery as no one knew what it was or its purpose.
But the negatively charged electron made the solution so simple and elegant that Dirac knew it was true.
Less than a decade later, observations of cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere discovered the first antimatter particles, confirming Dirac’s hypothesis.
His discovery led to a new branch of physics known as quantum field theory, which combines field theory and the principle of relativity with the ideas behind quantum mechanics.
Paul Dirac foretold it by solving an equation that revealed the need for antimatter’s existence in 1928
The result baffled the scientific community, adding a new mystery as no one knew what it was or its purpose. But the negatively charged electron made the solution so simple and elegant that Dirac knew it was true
In 1963, Dirac described God as a mathematician of a very high order in scientific journals.
‘It seems to be one of the fundamental features of nature that fundamental physical laws are described in terms of mathematical theory of great beauty and power, needing quite a high standard of mathematics for one to understand it,’ he wrote.
‘You may wonder: Why is nature constructed along these lines? One can only answer that our present knowledge seems to show that nature is so constructed. We simply have to accept it.
The Cambridge professor found that for every positively charged particle in the universe, there must be a corresponding negative one. His equation suggested the universe needed the negative particles
‘One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.’
There have been many experts who believe they found evidence of God in the universe, such as Richard Swinburne and Robin Collins would create the fine-tune argument.
Their ‘evidence included the strength of gravity, the ratio of the masses of protons and electrons and the cosmological constant.
If gravity had just bee slightly weaker, galaxies, stars and planets would not have formed. But if it were stronger, the universe might have collapsed into a black hole.
Similarly, if the proton-to-electron mass ratio were significantly different, fundamental chemistry could break down, making the formation of complex molecules like DNA impossible
The cosmological constant is a term in Einstein’s equations of General Relativity that determines whether space expands or contracts.
Swinburne and Collins argued that if it were different, the universe would have expanded too quickly or collapsed too soon for life.
