Creation In Pairs

matter, anti-matter

Creation in pairs

Allah says:

سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ الْأَزْوَاجَ كُلَّهَا مِمَّا تُنْبِتُ الْأَرْضُ وَمِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ وَمِمَّا لَا يَعْلَمُونَ 

"Glory to God who has created pairs of everything, both from what is grown by the earth and of themselves and of what they do not know." (QS Yaasiin: 36)

Although the idea of ​​a "couple" commonly stands for male and female, or male and female, the phrase "or of what they do not know" in the paragraph above has a wider coverage. Now, the scope of another meaning of the verse has been revealed. British scientist Paul Dirac, who proposed that matter is created in pairs, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1933. This discovery, called "parité", stating that the matter is paired with its opposite: anti-matter. Anti-matter has the opposite properties with the material. For example, in contrast to the material, electrons are positively charged anti-matter, and protons are negatively charged. This fact is stated in a scientific source as follows:

"... Every particle has its antiparticle of opposite charge ... ... and the uncertainty relation tells us that pair creation and pair annihilation happen in the vacuum at any time, in every place."

All this indicates that the element iron did not form on Earth, but was taken by the meteors through the explosions of stars in space, and then "sent to earth", exactly as stated in the verse. It is clear that this fact could not have known scientifically in the 7th century, when the Qur'an was revealed. (Henning Genz - Nothingness: The Science of Empty Space, s. 205)