The race is on

The race to find the "God particle" is intensifying. The famed Fermi lab in Illinois, left behind in the dust of the giant atom smasher in Geneva, has been picking up pieces and reenergizing. The Italians, not to be left behind, is finalizing the plans on a $1 Billion atom smasher just outside Rome. Japanese have always been on the trail and now only the Indians and the Chinese are left behind without such toys. But I suspect that is not for long. Atom smashing is in vogue and the race is on for the Higgs Boson. Neither Higgs nor Bose would have anticipated this outcome and they may have objected their names attached to such a trivial pursuit. One has to wonder, if there is anything beyond ego that motivates contemporary physicists and ironically even God may be laughing at such immaturity. In any case, the ONE who finds the God particle FIRST, will indeed be crowned by all scientists.



I am not a physicist, but I wonder if Higgs Boson, the ultimate mediator of mass, is indeed found, will that solve the other puzzles that still require – dark matter, dark energy and dark flow to be explained? If not, will it leave the discoverers with accolades of irrelevance?