What Is The God Particle?

Last updated on: September 16, 2015 at 11:48 am by Jack Wellman

What Is The God Particle? 2015-09-16T11:48:39-05:00 Jack Wellman

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Have you heard of the “God Particle?” If not, what is it? What does it have to do with Christians?

The Higgs Boson Subatomic Particle

Higgs boson is also called Higgs particle and is the carrier particle of the Higgs field which is a field that permeates space and matter and gives all of the elementary subatomic particles that have mass interaction with them. The Higgs field has the highly unusual property that its energy is highest when the field is zero than when it is nonzero. At the Large Hadron Collider, which is the world’s most powerful particle-smasher, scientists announced that the particle that they detected looks even more like the Higgs boson. Higgs boson attempts to explain why everything in the universe has mass. One scientist compared it to a molasses-like bath that’s invisible and yet all matter is immersed in it. The boson is a class of particles often associated with forces such as the carriers of the force.

The God Particle

The fact that the name “God Particle” is used frustrates many physicists because in Leon Lederman’s book, the prize-winning physicist used the “God Particle” in part of his title. He actually wanted to use the “God _amned Particle” in the title. That is where the title came from. In any case, the particle confirms notions about the universe that had only been calculated, but not directly observed. Even though it is still only hypothesized that the Higgs field permeates the entire Universe, evidence for its existence has been very difficult to obtain because there’s only one observed event in every trillion proton-proton collisions. We do know that the Higgs boson particle is a fundamental particle that combines to form a range of other particles, including protons and neutrons, the particles that make up the atomic nucleus. They are naked to the human eye, even with enormous microscopes, as they are invisible and presumable, we can only see the shadow of these particles at present.

The Creation

Physicists today believe that this subatomic particle, the God particle or “Higgs boson” may explain why the universe is here in the first place, although clearly they are not saying that it was the cause of the universe or the cause of matter itself. The Bible doesn’t theorize or make assumptions about how the universe was created. It simply states in Genesis 1:1 that “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” and Paul says in Acts 17:24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands.” All the heavens are the work of God’s hands (Psalm 102:25) as He is “the Maker of heaven and earth” (Psalm 115:15). We know that the universe is expanding so the fact that “the Creator of the heavens…stretches them out, who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it” (Isaiah 42:5) shouldn’t surprise us at all. If you want to include the five categories of all that exists such as time, force, action, matter, and space, we can see all of these working in Genesis 1:1 which says “in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” and here we find the five given categories: In the beginning (that’s time), God (that’s force), created (that’s action), the heavens (that’s space), and the earth (that’s matter)”. That reveals the Law of Causation.

Conclusion

The Bible is not a science book about the heavens; it is a book about how to get there. God never attempts to explain how He created all things out of nothing, He simply says it as a fact. We can never know all that there is in this universe because of the enormous size of it but we can know the source of the universe and all matter and it is God Himself. Instead of looking for a “God particle” why not look for God and have the most rational and logical explanation of all for the existence of the universe. God created it, the Bible declares it, the discussion is over.

Article by Jack Wellman

Jack Wellman is Pastor of the Mulvane Brethren church in Mulvane Kansas. Jack is also the Senior Writer at What Christians Want To Know whose mission is to equip, encourage, and energize Christians and to address questions about the believer’s daily walk with God and the Bible. You can follow Jack on Google Plus or check out his book Teaching Children the Gospel available on Amazon.

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