WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:20.000 Particles or Waves Striking the Shore 00:20.000 --> 00:28.000 What are the properties of the light that makes it possible for us to see the world? 00:28.000 --> 00:31.000 Or rather, that part of it in which we live? 00:31.000 --> 00:38.000 Scientists seeking an answer to that question have been unable to reach a clear and definitive conclusion, 00:38.000 --> 00:41.000 despite all their years of research. 00:41.000 --> 00:47.000 The main subject of debate with regard to light is whether the light particles known as photons 00:47.000 --> 00:50.000 are emitted as particles or as waves. 00:50.000 --> 00:55.000 In crude terms, does light travel from one place to another like particles? 00:55.000 --> 00:58.000 Or else like waves striking the shore? 00:58.000 --> 01:04.000 Light can sometimes be observed to move like the waves that form on the surface of the water 01:04.000 --> 01:07.000 when someone throws a stone into a swimming pool, 01:07.000 --> 01:11.000 and at other times it seems to possess the property of a material particle, 01:11.000 --> 01:15.000 striking at intervals like raindrops beating against the window pane. 01:15.000 --> 01:20.000 The interesting situation applies not just to light, but also to the electron, 01:20.000 --> 01:23.000 one of the fundamental sub-particles of the atom. 01:23.000 --> 01:26.000 The electron also exhibits both particle and wave characteristics. 01:26.000 --> 01:30.000 This situation caused great confusion in the scientific world. 01:30.000 --> 01:36.000 This confusion was resolved as follows, according to the words of the famous professor of conceptual physics, 01:36.000 --> 01:42.000 Richard P. Feynman. 01:42.000 --> 01:46.000 Now we know how the electrons in light behave, but what can I call it? 01:46.000 --> 01:50.000 If I say they behave like particles, I give the wrong impression. 01:50.000 --> 01:53.000 Also, if I say they behave like waves, 01:53.000 --> 01:56.000 they behave in their own inimitable way, 01:56.000 --> 01:59.000 which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. 01:59.000 --> 02:04.000 They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have ever seen before. 02:04.000 --> 02:09.000 An atom does not behave like a weight hanging on a spring and oscillating, 02:09.000 --> 02:14.000 nor does it behave like a miniature representation of the solar system 02:14.000 --> 02:17.000 with little planets going around in orbits, 02:17.000 --> 02:24.000 nor does it appear to be somewhat like a cloud or a fog of some sort surrounding the nucleus. 02:24.000 --> 02:28.000 It behaves like nothing you have ever seen before. 02:28.000 --> 02:32.000 There is one simplification at least. 02:32.000 --> 02:37.000 Electrons behave in this respect in exactly the same way as photons. 02:37.000 --> 02:41.000 They are both screwy, but in exactly the same way. 02:41.000 --> 02:46.000 How they behave, therefore, takes a great deal of imagination to appreciate, 02:46.000 --> 02:51.000 because we are going to describe something that is different from anything you know about. 02:51.000 --> 03:00.000 Unable to account for this behavior of electrons, scientists gave it a new name, 03:00.000 --> 03:03.000 Quantum Mechanical Motion. 03:03.000 --> 03:07.000 Professor Feynman describes the perfection here by saying, 03:07.000 --> 03:17.000 Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, but how can it be like that? 03:17.000 --> 03:22.000 Because you will get down the drain into a blind alley from which nobody yet has escaped. 03:22.000 --> 03:25.000 Nobody knows how it can be like that. 03:25.000 --> 03:30.000 However, what Feynman mentions here as a blind alley is not in fact so. 03:30.000 --> 03:35.000 The reason why some people are still totally baffled is that despite all the manifest evidence, 03:35.000 --> 03:43.000 they still refuse to accept that a sublime creator brought these extraordinary systems and balances into being. 03:43.000 --> 03:46.000 Yet the position is crystal clear. 03:46.000 --> 03:53.000 Allah created the universe out of nothing, based on flawless balances and with no previous model. 03:53.000 --> 03:59.000 The answer to the question that Darwinists cannot escape, that they are unable to understand, 03:59.000 --> 04:02.000 that certain scientists keep asking them in the words, 04:02.000 --> 04:07.000 but how could this have happened, lies in the fact that Allah is the creator of all things, 04:07.000 --> 04:12.000 and that being came into existence through his commanding it to be. 04:12.000 --> 04:16.000 Allah has revealed this certain truth in the Quran. 04:19.000 --> 04:23.000 The originator of the heavens and earth, when he decides on something, 04:23.000 --> 04:27.000 he just says to it, be, and it is. 04:37.000 --> 04:39.000 Duck. 04:39.000 --> 05:05.000 Let's pray.