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God Particle or God Person
Scientists at the Swiss lab that hosts the world's largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will announce their latest findings in the search for an elusive subatomic particle called the Higgs boson or "God particle," next week. Already blogs and online news outlets are abuzz with speculation about the big announcement.
Imagine all of the pressure on the poor Higgs boson[2]. Tiny as it is, illusive as it is, heavy as it is, it is already being expected to solve a major dilemma confronting physicists the world over: "Where's the stuff?"
But what particle would want to accept the pressure and demands of being a "God particle," responsible for holding all of the universe together with the power of its word? What particle would want to be responsible for the rescue of fallen mankind? What particle is going to volunteer to "make all things work together for the good of those that love God" (a Higgs boson???)? What particle can promise to protect us during the complete collapse of all things?
My guess? The Higgs boson will decline the job.
I think it will be fun to find it. I think it will give us another opportunity to pull off another layer of the amazing stuff that the God person has packed into tiny, tiny particles. But as every Higgs boson knows and declares by its very existence, "The God who made me is glorious, powerful and wise, and it is in the best interest of everyone to praise his holy name."
As amazing as the "God particle" might be, so much more amazing is the God who made it!
[1] http://news.yahoo.com/physicists-major-god-particle-announcement-next-week-170104414.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs
Peter Ware Higgs, FRS, FRSE, FKC (born 29 May 1929), is an English theoretical physicist and an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh.[1]
He is best known for his 1960s proposal of broken symmetry in electroweak theory, explaining the origin of mass of elementary particles in general and of the W and Z bosons in particular. This so-called Higgs mechanism, which had several inventors besides Higgs at about the same time, predicts the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson (often described as "the most sought-after particle in modern physics"[2][3]). Although this particle has not turned up in accelerator experiments so far, the Higgs mechanism is generally accepted as an important ingredient in the Standard Model of particle physics, without which particles would have no mass.[4]
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