It is a UNIQUE DISCOVERY which solved problem of creation of World and linking Nirguna State of Energy to Sarguna state of material Reality.

1. God Particle (Higgs Boson):
Implications for Science and
Religion/Gurbani
Hardev Singh Virk
#360 Sector 71, SAS Nagar {Mohali)

2. Introduction and Discovery
• The Higgs boson is named after Peter Higgs who,
along with two other teams, proposed the Higgs
mechanism that suggested such a particle in
1964. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), world's
highest-energy particle accelerator, was built by
the European Organization for Nuclear Research
(CERN) from 1998 to 2008, with the aim of
allowing physicists to test the predictions of
Standard Model, including Higgs boson. On 4th
July 2012, the discovery of Higgs boson at CERN
LHC was reported in the world media as the
greatest discovery of 21st century!

3. Why call it God Particle?
• The term God particle was coined by American
experimental physicist (Nobel Laureate) Leon M.
Lederman in his popular science book on particle
physics: The God Particle: If the Universe Is the
Answer, What Is the Question? According to
Higgs, it wasn't Lederman's choice to call it the
god particle: "He wanted to refer to it as that
'goddamn particle' and his editor wouldn't let
him." Higgs, an atheist himself, is displeased that
the Higgs particle is nicknamed the "God
particle", because the term "might offend people
who are religious".

4. How did the idea of tracing the God
particle originate?
• The Higgs mechanism, which gives mass to
vector bosons, was theorized in August 1964
by François Englert and Robert Brout of
France; and by Peter Higgs of UK. Steven
Weinberg and Abdus Salam were the first to
apply the Higgs mechanism to the
electroweak symmetry breaking. The
electroweak theory predicts a neutral particle
whose mass is not far from that of the W and
Z bosons.

5. Standard Model
• The Standard Model describes the
fundamental particles from which we, and
every visible thing in the universe, are made,
and the forces acting between them. All the
matter that we can see, however, appears to
be no more than about 4 percent of the total.
A more exotic version of the Higgs particle
could be a bridge to understanding the 96
percent of the universe that remains obscure,
in the form of dark matter and dark energy.

6. Higgs Boson & Big Bang Cosmology
• The discovery of Higgs boson will help us
understand the Big Bang Cosmology. Why did
matter dominate over anti-matter, when, in
laboratory settings, they are created in equal
amounts? The Higgs boson will complete our
description of the visible matter in the universe,
and of the fundamental processes governing the
Big Bang since it was a trillionth of a second old.
The Higgs boson may have played a role in
generating the matter in the universe, and may
be linked to dark matter. It may even provide a
clue how the universe inflated to its present size.

7. Implications of Higgs Boson
• 'It's helping us understand the big universal question,
what are we made out of?
• It's a crossroads in science.
• It allows physicists to try to go where no scientist has
gone before.
• It could lead to unexpected everyday applications.
• It helps answer basic questions about how the
universe evolved.
• It could change how physics is taught in high school.
• It's proof that long, hard work can pay off.

8. Interactions of Higgs Boson

9. Aerial view of LHC tunnel in Geneva

10. Civil Works in the ATLAS cavern (2000)

11. A module of ALICE Photon Detector
with 3584 lead tungstate crystals

12. Installation of the inner detector in the
center of ATLAS, on August 23, 2000

13. Millions of wires connected to the
electromagnetic calorimeter end-cap

14. How to get around the 27-km tunnel
that houses the LHC ?

15. Installation of the ATLAS pixel detector
into the cavern on June 28, 2007

16. Eight T-magnets around Calorimeter to
measure the energies of particles
produced

17. Magnetic Core of LHC (2007)
LHC uses super-cooled magnets to launch
particles at nearly the speed of light around a
27-kilometre long circuit until they collide.

18. LHC under Construction (2007)

19. Installation of the Silicon tracking
detector in the CMS experiment

20. The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS)

21. Closure of the LHC beam pipe ring on
June 16, 2008

22. Proton-Proton Collisions at LHC
A typical collision, in yellow, and some of the
new particles that result from it, such as
photons (in red) from decay of Higgs Boson.

23. First Steps to Discovery (2011)
CERN shows a CMS proton-proton collision in
which four high energy electrons (green lines
and red towers) are observed from the decay
of a Higgs boson in a 2011 event.

24. Rolf Hauer, Director CERN
‘As a layman, I think we did it … we have
observed a new particle that is consistent with
a Higgs boson’, said the Director CERN

25. Reporting Discovery of Higgs Boson
CERN, Geneva (4th July 2012)

26. Higgs Mechanism
• Higgs mechanism is responsible for assigning mass to
the elementary particles in Standard Model. The
Higgs field switched on a trillionth of a second after
the Big Bang; all of the particles in the cosmos
weighed nothing at all; all zipped around chaotically
at the speed of light. When the Higgs field switched
on, some particles began to feel a "drag" as they
moved around; the field gave them mass, making
them move around more slowly. This was a crucial
moment in the formation of the Universe, because it
allowed particles to come together and form all the
atoms and molecules around today.

27. Implications
• Particles of light, or photons, move through
the Higgs field as if it wasn't there. Because
the field does not cling to them, they remain
weightless and destined to move around at
the speed of light forever.
• Other particles, like quarks and electrons – the
smallest constituents of atoms – get caught in
the field and gain mass in the process.

28. Role of God Particle
• If God particle is not there, the creation
process will not advance further and there will
be no life in the Universe. Big Bang created lot
of energy but material particles are created by
the intervention of Higgs field and Higgs
boson. According to Einstein’s famous
equation, E=mc2, the energy and matter are
equivalent and inter-convertible. How can we
use this analogy in the field of Sikh religion?

29. What the Gurbani Says?
• God exists in both nirgun (transcendent) and sargun
(immanent) states simultaneously. During pre-
creation God is in nirgun state, aka sunnya state,
which is devoid of matter but not of energy.
• srgun inrgun inrMkwr suMn smwDI Awip ]
Awpn kIAw nwnkw Awpy hI iPir jwip ]
The Formless is attributed and un-attributed;
And gone into absorption in the cosmic void.Saith
Nanak:He has made the creation, Himself on it
meditates. (SGGS, M. 5, P. 290)

30. Concept of SUNN in SUKHMANI
• sloku ] srgun inrgun inrMkwr suMn
smwDI Awip ] Awpn
kIAw nwnkw Awpy hI iPir jwip ]
• AstpdI ] jb Akwru iehu kCu n
idRstyqw ] pwp puMn qb kh qy
hoqw ] jb DwrI Awpn suMn smwiD ]
qb bYr ibroD iksu sMig kmwiq ] jb
ies kw brnu ichnu n jwpq ] qb hrK
sog khu iksih ibAwpq ] jb Awpn Awp
Awip pwrbRhm ] qb moh khw iksu
hovq Brm ] Awpn Kylu Awip vrqIjw

31. Concept of SUNN in Rag Maru Solhe
• suMn klw AprMpir DwrI ] Awip inrwlmu
Apr ApwrI ]
Awpy kudriq kir kir dyKY suMnhu suMnu
aupwiedw ] 1 ]
• pauxu pwxI suMnY qy swjy ]isRsit aupwie
kwieAw gV rwjy ]
Agin pwxI jIau joiq qumwrI suMny klw
rhwiedw ] 2 ]
• suMnhu bRhmw ibsnu mhysu aupwey ]
suMny vrqy jug sbwey ]
iesu pd vIcwry so jnu pUrw iqsu imlIAY
Brmu cukwiedw ] 3 ]
• suMnhu spq srovr Qwpy ] ijin swjy vIcwry

32. God from Latent to Manifest Form
• Guru Arjun, the fifth Nanak, describes the primordial trance
of God before the creation process starts as a manifestation
of God :
• For countless days, He remained invisible.
For countless days, He remained absorbed in Sünn. For
countless days, there was utter darkness, and
Then the Creator revealed Himself.
 kyqiVAw idn gupqu khwieAw ]
kyqiVAw idn suMin smwieAw ]
kyqiVAw idn DuMDUkwrw Awpy krqw prgtVw ]
(AGGS, M. 1, p. 1081)

33. Big-Bang Cosmology in Sri GuruGranth
(Guru Nanak in Rag Maru Solhe)
• Arbd nrbd DuMDUkwrw ] Drix n
ggnw hukmu Apwrw ] nw idnu rYin
n cMdu n sUrju suMn smwiD
lgwiedw ]1] KwxI n bwxI paux n
pwxI ] Epiq Kpiq n Awvx jwxI ]
KMf pqwl spq nhI swgr ndI n nIru
vhwiedw ]2] nw qid surgu mCu
pieAwlw ] dojku iBsqu nhI KY
kwlw ] nrku surgu nhI jMmxu
mrxw nw ko Awie n jwiedw ]3]
bRhmw ibsnu mhysu n koeI ] Avru n

34. Cosmology Contd.
• jw iqsu Bwxw qw jgqu
aupwieAw ] bwJu klw
Awfwxu rhwieAw ] bRhmw
ibsnu mhysu aupwey
mwieAw mohu vDwiedw ]14]
ivrly kau guir sbdu
suxwieAw ] kir kir dyKY
hukmu sbwieAw ] KMf
bRhmMf pwqwl ArMBy
gupqhu prgtI Awiedw ]15]
qw kw AMqu n jwxY koeI ]

35. • For billions of years, there was nothing but utter
darkness. There was neither day nor night, nor moon,
nor sun, but the Lord alone sat in profound trance.
Neither there was creation, nor air, nor water. There
were no continents, nor underwords, nor seven
oceans, nor rivers nor the flowing of water. There was
neither death nor time. There was no Brahma, nor
Vishnu or Shiva.
• When He so willed, He created the world and
supported the firmament without support. He
created Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva and extended the
love of mammon. He founded the continents, solar
systems and underworlds, and from the absolute self
He became manifest.

37. Experimental Observations
• Radio telescopes have recorded evidence
for various components of the expanding
Universe. Star formation out of the Gas
Clouds in the Galaxies is still going on.
Evidence of Supernova explosions,
Pulsars, Quasars, Neutron Stars and Black
Holes is provided by Radio telescopes.

39. Two Phases of Reality (God)
• God is referred to exist in two phases: subtle (sukham)
and solid (asthool). These are compatible with nirgun
and sargun states.
• nank s] sUKmu s]eI AsTUlu .
O Nanak, He is the subtle, and He is also the manifest.
(SGGS, M. 5, P. 281)
riv rihAa srbt OaeI sUKm] AsTUl
.
He is the source of life. He is all-pervading, permeating
all places; He is in subtle essence and manifest form.
(SGGS, M. 5, P. 987)

40. Unification of Fundamental Forces
• The discovery of God particle is a step forward to
unification of fundamental forces, Elctro-weak
unification has been established experimentally, which
formed the basis of Standard Mode.
• In Gurbani, Ik Onkar (^ ) represents the unity of God.
God is self-existent (s{B;) and cannot be created as
God particle has been created in the laboratory:
• TaipAa n jaie kIta n h]ie . Aap[ Aaip
inr;jnu s]ie .
• He cannot be established, He cannot be created.
He Himself is Immaculate and Pure. (Japu)

41. Discovery of God (Experience)
• Guru Nanak also claims that invisible, inaccessible and
unfathomable God can be experienced face to face by
searching in each and every heart, as He is omnipresent:
• e[km e[k;karu inrala . Amru Aj]nI
jait n jala .
Agm Ag]cru rUpu n r[iKAa . K]jt K]jt
Gio Gio w[iKAa .
• The One Universal Creator is unique, immortal, unborn,
beyond social class or involvement.
• He is inaccessible and unfathomable, with no form or
feature.
• I have seen Him in each and every heart, after searching
Him intensely.
(SGGS, M.1, P. 838)

42. God Waves in the Spiritual field
• Gurbani elaborates the techniques of searching God
in this Universe but the tools are not the same as
used by the Scientists. Gurbani stresses the all-
pervasive omnipresence of God in this Universe in
the form of endless continuum of waves in the
spiritual field, yet to be discovered by the scientific
investigations:
• psirX Aaip h]ie Ant tr;g . lK[ n
jaih parbRhm k[ r;g.
• He Himself is All-pervading, in endless waves.
• The playful sport of the Supreme Lord God cannot be
known.
(SGGS, M.5, P. 275)

43. Suggested References
• LHC discovery, 4th July: a day to remember. CERN
Courier, Volume 52, Number 7, September 2012.
• Higgs Boson- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson.
• Leon M. Lederman and Dick Teresi (1993). The
God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What
is the Question? Houghton Mifflin Company.
• Hardev Singh Virk, Concept of Reality in SGGS,
Chapter 3, in: Scientific Vision in Sri Guru Granth
Sahib & Interfaith Dialogue, Singh Brothers,
Amritsar, 2008.

44. My Connection with God Particle