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HIGSOV BOZON I STVARANJE SVETA
HIGGS BOSON AND THE CREATION OF THE WORLD

Author(s): Norma Pastelidu
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Religion and science
Published by: Centar za empirijska istraživanja religije (CEIR)
Keywords: Big Bang; Standard Model; Higgs boson; mass; energy; fine-tuned; intelligible; just; beautiful

Summary/Abstract: We briefly expound the deepest picture of the world since the beginning, coming to us from astronomical observations and experiments with elementary particles, leaving place to find the origin in a spiritual principle. If Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow were able to say that "the universe can create itself from nothing" and Roger Penrose that it was initially without mass, it would be like the Old Testament's creation of the world ex nihilo. When they supported that "the cosmos hasn't a history, but every possible history", they allowed the possibility of a world "by the way of the word" (logos), summing up in itself as rational, good, exact and beautiful. That is exactly our world. In the first case, they say in the beginning cosmos was without mass and the particle called "God particle" is not found yet. According to another opinion cosmos at its beginning was a fireball (as energy), an infinitesimal of infinite density, which submitted itself once to a bang, sharing and then expansion (Big Bang theory). Our world is "fine-tuned", one of the possible worlds, in which exists order, meaning and ultimate goal, not just being a chaotic conglomerate of material units.

  • Issue Year: 9/2011
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 217-229
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Serbian