The Universe: A Mirror

THE UNIVERSE TESTIFIES TO GOD’S EXISTENCE such precision that one can draw up a calendar that goes back thousands of years into the past or years into the future. The same is the case with all other components of the physical universe. Every part of the physical universe functions under such clear, firm, and definite principles that one can accurately predict its future. This aspect of the physical universe greatly impresses scientists so much that they are sure it is a mathematical model. As long as they have not understood a particular thing at the mathematical level, they assume they have not yet understood it. Scientists study the world of Nature. Even though science has many departments and different scientists conduct their research and study separately, if one were to give a standard label to their work, it could be ‘Searching for mathematical order in the universe.’ It is the shared conviction of all scientists that there is a mathematically precise order and arrangement in the universe. A scientist becomes completely satisfied with his research findings only when he can express his research mathematically. For scientists, mathematical verification is the ultimate evidence of a theory. Scientists use mathematics to study the universe, and goldsmiths use touchstones to distinguish between genuine and fake gold. A goldsmith regards a bit of metal as gold only if verified through a touchstone. In the same way, a scientist accepts a theory to be valid only if it is verified to be so by mathematics. Why is there this compatibility between the system of mathematics and the system of the universe? Some scientists