The “God-Particle”
by Royce Pendergrass, Batesville, Arkansas
Recently, I came across an article I had saved from the July 26, 2009 “Parade” publication and the title of the article is “The Race for the Secret of the Universe”. The first time I read the article, it just “blew my mind.” After reading it again, I still can’t comprehend why anyone would believe in such things.
According to the article, “At Fermilab (the legendary physics research facility just outside of Chicago) several of the nation’s top scientists gathered at 1:30 am to hold a somewhat bittersweet all-nighter. They wanted to be together when they, and America, fell behind in what many consider the most important and resonant competition in science: the search for the elusive Higgs boson, also known as the God-particle. Physicists believe that this special subatomic particle allows all of the other particles in the universe to have mass and come together to basically form everything that’s around us. Without so-called God particles, one Fermilab theorist tells me, “atoms would have no integrity, so there would be no chemical bonding, no stable structures (no liquids or solids) and, of course, no physicists and no reporters.”
The article goes on to say that Fermilab fell behind because the Swiss had built a new $9 billion, 17-mile-round particle accelerator. However, eight days after firing up the accelerator, “a catastrophic electrical failure” caused monumental damage which “would take at least a year and tens of millions of dollars” to repair. So the physicists at Fermilab revved up research as never before. The physicist agree that “this particular particle (the God-particle) could answer the biggest question in science: How did the cosmic crash known as the Big Bang become the universe we live in today?”
Aren’t you thankful that, as a Christian, you don’t have to worry about such nonsense!!! The “Big Bang” theory has been around all of my life and, from the looks of things, it’s not going away soon. And just look at the years of intensive labor and millions of dollars this is costing – not only the U.S. but other countries as well. Wouldn’t it be great if just a portion of those millions could be used to help teach lost souls about a loving God Who “created man in His own image; male and female He created them” (Gen. 1:27).
The “God particle” is simple: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters” (Gen. 1:1,2). The “spirit of God” is the God particle and these physicists will never find it. Listen as Isaiah wisely spoke of God, “I am the Lord Who makes all things; Who stretches forth the heavens alone and Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself; Who frustrates the tokens of the liars and makes diviners mad; Who turns wise men backward and makes their knowledge foolish” (Isaiah 44:24, 25).
Did you see that God turns ‘wise men’ around and makes their knowledge foolish? When Paul was telling Festus about his conversion, Festus said to him, “Much learning has made you mad (foolish)” (Acts 26:24). I submit to you that much learning has made these scientists mad, unlike Paul who spoke “words of truth and soberness” (Acts 26:25). The Wise Man said,“Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and instruction” (Prov. 1:7).
These men won’t find the ‘God particle’ they are searching for because they don’t know God Who affirmed “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8, 9). In preaching to the ‘religious’ Athenians, Paul said, “God made the world and all things in it…and is not served men’s hands as though He needs anything, seeing that He gives to all life, breath and all things…they should seek the Lord that they might find Him though He is not far from every one of us for in Him we live, move and have our being” (Acts 17:24ff). And we read in Romans 11:33ff: “O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! For who has known the mind of God or been His counsellor? Or who has first given to Him and it will be recompensed to him again? Of Him, through Him and to Him are all things: to Him be glory forever.” God doesn’t need man, man needs God. And, unless everyone comes to that realization and bows before The Great ‘I Am’, searching for the ‘God-particle’ will bring serious eternal consequences!