The Physical Testifies to the Metaphysical

uniform. No matter how we look, the universe has the same constituents in proportion. The laws of physics discovered on Earth contain arbitrary numbers, like the ratio of the mass of an electron to the mass of a proton, which is roughly 1840 to one. But these turn out to be the same in all places at all times. Why? Did a creator arbitrarily choose these numbers? Or must these numbers have the particular uniform value we observe for the Universe to exist?” 2. Is there a Z-particle? Abdul Salam is a professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College, London. “In the fleet decade, we need to confirm or disprove the existence of the so-called Z-particle. If it does exist as predicted by current theory, it will clinch the unification of two of the four forces we know in nature. [The four forces are gravity, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force that binds the atomic nucleus, and the weak nuclear force involved in radioactivity. Recently, Professor Salam and others have made some progress towards unifying the weak nuclear force and electromagnetism. The discovery of the Z-particle would lend strong experimental support.] 3. What preceded DNA? Dr. Graham Cairns-Smith is a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Glasgow. “We need to discover new genetic material that is as different as you like from DNA. [Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the double helix structure of DNA in Cambridge in 1953.] I do not believe DNA could have been made on the primitive Earth. Life must have started with something else, and DNA evolved later.”