Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 335
ENTROPY AND THE FINITE UNIVERSE * كُل مَنْ عَلَيْهَا فَانِ ةٌ وَيَبْقَى وَجْهُ رَبِّكَ ذُو الْعَدْلِ وَالْإِكْرَامِ 55:27-28. All that exists upon this earth is to perish,. Except for the countenance of thy Lord, the. Possessor of Glory, the Possessor of Honour. ². The dilemma of entropy as against the existence of the universe, can only be resolved by the solution that the. Quran offered fourteen hundred years ago. It is not just a repeating universe that is being created from what is left of the previous universe. Each time it is created anew by the same Creator, Who brings it to an end after it has served the purpose for which it was designed. Amazingly the Holy. Quran made this pronouncement during an age of utter ignorance. It is statements like these which illustrate how the realm of the unknown is being constantly transformed to that of the known. Though unnoticed and unappreciated for more than a thousand years, they suddenly seem to have come to life in our modern age of exploration and discovery, as if it was here that they had always belonged. . Another interesting point to note is that despite the great advancement of science in the last few hundred years, even by the turn of this century, scientists continued to believe in the indestructibility of the atom. This remained so until the current century advanced and scientists were able to split the atom. With the consequent nuclear holocausts the myth of the indestructibility of the atom was exploded once and for all. But even after that, the destructibility of protons began to emerge merely as a mathematical probability. Some meagre evidence has just started to trickle through the highly costly deep subterranean experimental tunnels. . Huge, extremely expensive experiments are being carried out to observe the possible decay of protons and it is 324