The question of whether an all-knowing, omnipotent, and ever-present higher power (or its variations) truly exists and in what form has bothered humanity since ancient times, and one scientist claims he has found the answer – math.
Indeed, an astrophysicist and aerospace engineer at Harvard, Dr. Willie Soon believes that observing the perfect balance of the conditions and their suitability for life demonstrates it is highly unlikely that all of it occurred simply by chance, according to a WION report published on March 6.
Specifically, speaking on the Tucker Carlson Network, Soon opined that the universe was intentionally created this way and that the existence of antimatter, alongside its proportion, proved it was designed to support life. Furthermore, he pointed out that, when the Big Bang happened, both matter and antimatter came into existence.
The latter exists in a lesser amount than matter, and this helped life come to be. If both had been present in equal amounts, they would cancel each other out, given that antimatter has the opposite charge of matter. Hence, their imbalance seems to be deliberate.
Divine math equation
To support his theory, Soon referred to Cambridge professor Paul Dirac who accidentally discovered antimatter long before its scientific confirmation. In 1963, Dirac wrote that “fundamental physical laws are described in terms of the mathematical theory of great beauty and power,” which need “quite a high standard of mathematics for one to understand it.”
“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.”
As it happens, when trying to decode why some particles move faster than the speed of light, Dirac combined Albert Einstein’s famous E=mc2 equation with Schrödinger’s equation from quantum mechanics and added an extra type of electron with negative energy.
Meanwhile, Soon isn’t alone in his belief. Other scientists using similar arguments include Richard Swinburne and Robin Collins, who have said that the state of existence of various elements in the universe proves the workings of a higher power.
For instance, if gravity was slightly weaker, it wouldn’t have led to the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets. On the other hand, if it was stronger, the universe would collapse into a black hole.
However, there are many scientists who disagree, and currently, science does not possess any methods to prove and disprove the existence of God (or gods), which is why a supernatural God is outside the natural domain of scientific investigation, per science philosopher Karl Popper.
Elsewhere, science focuses less on divine math and more on direct discoveries , such as transforming light into a ‘supersolid’ material, seeking a cure for cancer, speeding up bacterial infection diagnoses, establishing a GPS signal on the Moon, and designing a ‘perfect potato.’
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