1. Introduction. This is the second of the I-SET Series Lecture, a scholarly scientific forum based on research and new discoveries, organised by UIM and it was held on March 15, 2016 with the attendance of an estimated 150 participants. The Lecture was delivered by Prof. Dr Wan Ahmad Tajuddin bin Wan Abdullah of the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya.
2. Content of the Lecture. Prof. Wan started the lecture by citing the great excitement among the scientific community in 2012 when the announcement was made at the Centre for Nuclear Research in Switzerland of the finding 'particle in the Invisible World that create the forces field that causes matter to have mass and make things happen' (Higg's Particle), considered by a few scientists as 'God Particle'. According to the speaker, physicists in this area of cosmological study went through a long journey to understand the structure of the Universe, its building blocks and governing rules. It started with the early work of Sir Francis Bacon who regarded the universe was constituted of matter, space and time and an atom was then considered as the smallest indivisible particle. This was followed by Newton's Laws of Motion on the conservation of energy and momentum. In 1834 William Hamilton with his Principle of Least Action, indicated that particles in the universe follow paths of least resistance. It was followed by Maxwell's Theory of Unification in 1861 that waves solution that contributes to light. That there were smaller particles at the sub-nuclear level such as nucleons and quarks as small as a minute fraction of a cm, was the discovery of Rutherford in 1911 and the space in the Universe are then considered to have myriads of virtual particles of virtual photons and virtual neutrons. These particles are subjected to various forces of electro-manetism, weak and strong forces. The Universe, according to Prof. Wan, is constituted of 4.9 percent mass, 26.7 percent dark matter and 68.3 percent. The extraordinary manner that the Universe is designed appears to provide evidence of the existence of the Grand Designer.
Posted on March 27, 2016
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