INFORMATION PRE-EXISTED MATTER If we believe that our physical Universe had a starting point in space-time, then, in one way or other, some organized information must have pre-existed matter. This is simply because, if there was no such primal information, there would have been no instruction to trigger or guide any of the potential events like the initiation of the Universe or its evolution. The Quran describes this organized information that pre-existed matter as ‘a MEASURE’ (qadr 65:3; qadar 15:21, 23:18, 42:27, 43:11) or ‘PREDESTINATION’ (taqdir 6:96, 25:2, 36:38, 41:12, 76:16), according to which everything else is created and evolved: It is He who created everything, then determined it according to A MEASURE, PREDETERMINED. 25:2 And there is not a single thing but with Us are treasures of it. And We do not send it down from high but according to A MEASURE, KNOWN. 15:21 This ‘predetermined gauge for measuring’ (‘a measure, predetermined’ 25:2; or ‘a measure, known’ 15:21) can be conveniently imagined as ‘COSMIC BLUEPRINT’, a term promoted by Paul Davies. It appears that this primordial information or instruction – which is primary to matter – originally belongs to an immaterial realm that is spaceless and timeless (alm-e-amr), wherefrom it eventually expresses itself into the material domain of space and time (alm-e-khalaq). Interestingly, some aspects of this cosmic blueprint are even experimentally detectable in the laboratory and are popularly known within the scientific community as PHYSICAL LAWS and FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS. PHYSICAL LAWS are laws that govern the Universe. Humans try to formulate them in scientific terms by generalizations based on observable patterns in natural phenomena. Examples of physical laws include: Newtons three laws of motion, law of gravity, law of conservation of mass-energy, law of conservation of momentum, laws of thermodynamics, laws of electrostatics, law of invariance of the speed of light, laws of Relativity and Quantum physics, laws of chemistry, laws of biology, laws of socio-politico-economics and so on. Now, FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS are numerical figures, i.e. highly organized, latent signals underlying the elemental particles and physical bodies instructing them how to exist and appear, and how to act and react in any given situation. Being buried deep in the essence of matter, they largely govern all matter and energy in the Universe, and are both universal in nature and constant in time. Some of the most widely recognized fundamental physical constants are speed of light in the vacuum c (signifies a maximum speed limit of the Universe), gravitational constant G (characterizes the strength of the gravitational interaction), fine-structure constant α (characterizes the strength of the electromagnetic interaction), electric constant ε0 (vacuum permittivity), elementary charge e, Plancks constant h, quantum particle (with a definite amount of energy embodied in it), electron mass, proton mass, neutron mass etc. Examples of fundamental constants further include constants in various branches of science e.g. astronomical constants (light year, Solar mass, Solar radius, Solar luminosity, sidereal year, Earth mass etc), chemical constants (Avogadro constant, molar gas constant, Faraday constant, Boltzman constant, equilibrium constant etc), geological constants, Bio constants and so on. A correct understanding of these fundamental constants leads us to the following incredible but inevitable anthropomorphic principle: If the values of the fundamental constants had been even a million millionth part bigger or smaller than they are, then the whole cosmic existence would be so radically different that it would experience on it no long-lived stars and no life and no mind. Our Universe seems to be fine-tuned (25:2, 54:49-50, 65:3, 87:1-3) not only for the origin and evolution of matter and life but also for the emergence and development of intelligent, conscious creature/s: Surely We have created everything according to a MEASURE. And Our command is but one, as the twinkling of an eye. 54:49-50 Indeed God has appointed for everything a due MEASURE. 65:3 Glorify the name of your Sustainer, the Most High; Who created, then fashioned with due proportion; And who DETERMINED ACCORDING TO A MEASURE, then guided. 87:1-3
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 05:01:28 +0000
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