Higgs boson confirms Islamic view about the end of the universe

BOSTON — If the "Higgs-like particle" discovered last year is really the long-sought Higgs boson, the bad news is that its mass suggests the universe will end in a fast-spreading bubble of doom. The good news? It'll probably be tens of billions of years before that particular doomsday arrives.

That's one of the weirder twists coming out of the continuing analysis of results from Europe's Large Hadron Collider, which produced the first solid evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson last year. Current theory holds that the Higgs boson plays a role in imparting mass to other fundamental particles. Confirming the discovery of the Higgs would fill in the last blank spot in that theory, known as the Standard Model.
Physicists discussed the state of the Higgs quest in Boston on Monday during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

So far, the particle that was found at the LHC fits all the requirements for the Higgs boson, but scientists aren't quite ready to confirm that the particle is really, truly the Higgs boson. It could be, say, just the first of multiple particles involved in the process. "The door is still very much open that there's [another] particle that has a role to play, or even more than that," said Christopher Hill, a physicist at Ohio State University who is also deputy physics coordinator for the LHC's Compact Muon Solenoid experiment.

The LHC has just started a two-year shutdown for equipment upgrades — and Howard Gordon, deputy chair of the physics program at Brookhaven National Laboratory, said "it's going to take another few years" after the collider is restarted to confirm definitively that the newfound particle is the Higgs boson.

In the meantime, physicists have tightened their estimates of the particle's mass: Hill said the current estimate from the Compact Muon Solenoid is 125.8 billion electron volts, or 125.8 GeV, plus or minus 0.6 GeV. The figure from the LHC's other Higgs-boson detector, known as ATLAS, is 125.2 GeV, plus or minus 0.7 GeV.

Those figures can be factored into equations that point to the long-term fate of the universe, said Joseph Lykken, a theoretical physicist at Fermilab.

So what's the outlook?

"If you use all the physics that we know now, and we do what we think is a straightforward calculation, it's bad news," Lykken said. "It may be that the universe we live in is inherently unstable. At some point, billions of years from now, it's all going to be wiped out."

He said the parameters for our universe, including the Higgs mass value as well as the mass of another subatomic particle known as the top quark, suggest that we're just at the edge of stability, in a "metastable" state. Physicists have been contemplating such a possibility for more than 30 years. Back in 1982, physicists Michael Turner and Frank Wilczek wrote in Nature that "without warning, a bubble of true vacuum could nucleate somewhere in the universe and move outwards at the speed of light, and before we realized what swept by us our protons would decay away."

Lykken put it slightly differently: "The universe wants to be in a different state, so eventually to realize that, a little bubble of what you might think of as an alternate universe will appear somewhere, and it will spread out and destroy us."

That alternate universe would be "much more boring," Lykken said. Which led him to ask a philosophical question: "Why do we live in a universe that's just on the edge of stability?" He wondered whether a universe has to be near the danger zone to produce galaxies, stars, planets ... and life.

Even Hill found it interesting that the parameters of particle physics put our universe right along the critical line. "That's something new, which we didn't know before, and which leads some of us to that there's something else coming," Hill said.

When Hill referred to "something else," he was talking about new discoveries in physics — not the end of the world. Lykken emphasized that it would be at least tens of billions of years before vacuum instability took hold.

"To get the exact number, we need more funding," he joked.

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Commentary :

Quran mentions that the earth will be like flakes of cotton on the doomsday and that there will be great noise on the doomsday and the above article affirms these two aspects of the doomsday mentioned in Quran.when the expanding bubble of universe will burst,it will most probably create shock waves which will push earth towards the sun which is again in accord with the Islamic view.Uptill now ,very little of Islamic views have been confirmed by science,yet what has been discovered is enough to strengthen one's belief.

An argument for atheists

Yesterday an argument hit my mind to satisfy aehists.A few days earlier i had been trying to convince the atheists that life did'nt start by itself.I was using both logic and science.My opinion was that for everything there must be a creator and the atheists' view was that it would result in a creator for a creator.I said in response that the concept of God is that Supreme force which has been existing since ever.Since time is an absolutely infinite concept,you can't judge from when God has been existing.Time is only a relatively measureable dimension.But they kept insisting that how can it be that a thing has been existing since ever and will keep existing and will never annihilate.

So,yesterday the answer came to my mind Alhamdulillah.The answer is that since atheists believe in the validity of law of conservation of energy very much,they should have no preoblem in accepting that God exists since ever.Because Law of conservation of energy states that energy can neither be created ,nor destroyed but can be converted from one form into another.You see ,atheists have no problem in believeing that energy cant be created and that it has been existing since ever,but yet they find it hard to swallow that the creator can exist since ever,beyond our perception.

And this theory of mine is in accord with Quran (often read as Koran by Western people).Because Quran says that 

"Allah is the noor (light) of the heavens and the earths"

this makes sense because according to Einstein's theory of Relativity,light can be materialized into mass and vice versa.So,it is quite possible that material world around us is actually a materialized manifestation of light.Recent Scientific experiments confirm that there exists an aura of light around man.Light is the finest form of energy according to my perception.

"So the end of the discussion is that if atheists refuse the existence of some Supreme Power since ever,they should refuse to accept the validity of Law of conservation of energy as well,otherwise they should explain that from where did energy originate ,which created life later on? "