The veil which science used to draw between matter and energy is wearing very thin. Thus if we could bring a proton and an electron into real contact their two charges should simultaneously disappear, and we might be left with a single flash of radiation. The physicist in a terrestrial laboratory has so far failed to achieve this union. Every atom consists of proton and electron in exactly the right proportions to annihilate each other's charge, and every proton has a very strong attraction for each of the electrons which surround it. Close as they are, and strong as is their mutual attraction, these particles under terrestrial conditions never meet .
Nature seems to have laid down some immutable fiat saying, Thus far but no further.
What the mysterious force is which keeps them apart we do not know . If this force were mysteriously to vanish of its own accord this world of ours would vanish too in one stupendous blaze of illimitable light. Science since its beginning has travelled many paths and explored many territories. Thus man joins his witness that the Scriptures are true. Because God is One, His creation is a unity.