The Pairs in Creation Glory be to Him Who created all the pairs: from what the earth produces and from themselves and from things unknown to them. (The Quran, 37:36) Prof. Paul Dirac Although the concept of pair or couple commonly stands for male and female, the statement of from things unknown to them has wider implications. Today, one of the implications of the verse has been revealed. The British scientist Paul Dirac, who proposed that matter is created in pairs, was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1933. This discovery, called parité, maintains that matter is paired with its opposite: anti-matter. Anti-matter carries the opposite properties to matter. For instance, as opposed to matter, the electron of anti-matter is positively charged and its protons are negatively charged. This fact is stated in a scientific source in this way: ...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 all times, in all places.(8) He directs the whole affair from heaven to earth. Then it will again ascend to Him on a Day whose length is a thousand years by the way you measure. (The Quran, 32:5) The angels and the Spirit ascend to Him in a day whose length is fifty thousand years. (The Quran, 70:4) In some verses, it is indicated that people perceive time differently and that sometimes people can perceive a very short period of time as a very lengthy one. The following conversation of people held during their judgement in the Hereafter is a good example of this: He will say, How many years did you tarry on the earth? They will say, We tarried there for a day or part of a day. Ask those able to count! He will say, You only tarried there for a little while if you did but know! (The Quran, 23:12) The fact that the relativity of time is so clearly mentioned in the Quran, which started to be revealed in 610
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