The discovery of the Higgs boson, also called the "particle of God," led to the launch of a new theory of the end of the world. A prominent scholar says that one could shed new light on how God will create new heavens and a new earth.
"Perhaps there is an involvement of the Higgs boson in how the universe will end," Hendrick Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute in North Carolina, USA, said in an interview with Christian Post.
Hanegraaff compared the theory of the Higgs boson and the end of the world to that of the Big Bang, which "seems to correspond to reality, but does not undermine the biblical view of the world."
"The result of the discovery is that, eventually, an unlikely quantum fluctuation will produce a vacuum bubble, which will then expand at the speed of light, destroying everything," said Joseph Lykken, a researcher at Fermi's Accelerator Laboratory.
"This method of universal destruction could be the way God destroys and recreates the Universe as promised in Revelation. In Romans 8, the Universe is said to groan in the pains of birth, awaiting deliverance," Hanegraaff said.
The discovery of the Higgs boson, also called the "particle of God," led to the launch of a new theory of the end of the world. A prominent scholar says that one could shed new light on how God will create new heavens and a new earth.
"Perhaps there is an involvement of the Higgs boson in how the universe will end," Hendrick Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute in North Carolina, USA, said in an interview with Christian Post.
Hanegraaff compared the theory of the Higgs boson and the end of the world to that of the Big Bang, which "seems to correspond to reality, but does not undermine the biblical view of the world."
"The result of the discovery is that, eventually, an unlikely quantum fluctuation will produce a vacuum bubble, which will then expand at the speed of light, destroying everything," said Joseph Lykken, a researcher at Fermi's Accelerator Laboratory.
The scientist cannot specify when the end of the world will come
"The problem is that it does not involve divine intervention. We can say yes, just as in modern cosmology which is not controlled by the creator's hand, modern scientific theory does not rule out that a divine intervention could lead to the end of the universe," Hanegraaff said.
In other words, if science can predict how the universe can be destroyed, it cannot say that God is not behind it.
The Christian scholar enumerated four logical possibilities that explain the existence of the Universe: an embodiment of our imagination, the appearance of nothingness, the existence of an eternity, or it was the creation of God.
The first theory is rejected by Hanegraaff, as is the second, according to which everything came out of nowhere without a creator. The hypothesis that the universe has existed for eternity is not scientifically viable. The only real option for Hanegraaff is through which the Universe was created by God.
The scientist believes that the theory of the Higgs boson and the end of the world can predict exactly how the universe will end, but it is not known when it will occur.