The Chest of Time

As we summarized in Chapter II of Volume III, there are three generations of fermions in the Standard Model that contains the 12 fermions: six quarks and six leptons, and each has its own anti-particles, which make a total of 24 fermions. However, in the current model, there is no clue as to why there are three generations of particles that only differs in mass. For example, the three generations of the electron: electron, muon, and tau, have masses: 0.5109989461(31) MeV, 105.6583745(24) MeV, and 1776.82 MeV, respectively. The first generation of charged particles do not decay; hence all ordinary (baryonic) matter is made of such particles. Specifically, all atoms consist of electrons orbiting around atomic nuclei, ultimately constituted of up and down quarks. The second and third generations decay with very short half lives, and are observed only in very high-energy environments.

Although the differences do not seem to form a specific pattern, they suggest some relation to the dimensions of space, as if the electron is like a string, the muon is like a surface and the tau is like a solid. Actually, as we explained in the concluding chapter of the previous volume, the number and types of elementary particles are profoundly connected with the number and types of Arabic alphabet, as the oldest Semitic language, the twenty-eight lunar mansions and even the number and types of teeth! All these apparently unrelated symmetries are reflections of the three-dimensional space that is being dynamically created in the seven Days of the Week. The 24 fermions also correspond precisely to the 24 hours of day which is divided into six parts depending on the divine manifestations of God to different types of bodies and spirits, by dividing the daytime and night each into three thirds:

“... and when Allah divided His Days like that, He made the night three parts and the daytime three parts; so He, the Exalted, descends down to His servants in the last third of the night of His Days [Kanz: 3355, 3388], and that is when He is manifested to the natural spirits that manage the material bodies; and in the middle third He manifests to the subjected spirits, and in the first third He manifests to the roaming spirits. And He also divided the day of these days into three parts, thus in every part He is manifested to the world of bodies, for they are always praising Allah. So in the first third He is manifested to the subtle bodies, which are unseen by sight, in the middle third He is manifested to the transparent materials, and in the last third He is manifested to the dense materials. Without this manifestation, they would not be able to know Whom they are praising.” [III.201.24]