Been reading about the potential discovery of what is dubbed the “God particle”, but really it could as easily be called the Christ particle, as it is the indirect provider of mass, as Christ is the indirect cause of salvation. The Higgs field, described as “all-powerful”, naturally, serves in the analogy as “God”.
But let’s be clear, the boson is a prediction, required by the tentative narrative power of a model…the resurrection of the dead, the day of judgment, the divinity of Christ are also requirements of a explicating model that predicts a certain behavior, not of nature but of what is revealed, the cause, what’s behind that nature.
I know that some might resent the comparasion but such are invited by the short-hand used by scientists to popularize their research. I don’t know if that is how they perceive it, in a quasi-religious form, or if this is just writing in the language of western man. Makes you think of Maimonides. But it could also be that we are built with the necessity to find that unfractured explanation, that is final and allow us a commanding view of reality. In that way, perhaps the theological association is not a stretch.
I think this is often the case. We search for fundamentals. It makes sense to. In complex situations we look to what we can stake decisions on. It’s why the simple virtues are so important to many people, and it’s why scientists search for patterns, for ways to simplify and predict. Nothing wrong with any of that, but I do think it’s easy to screw up by neglecting various things, conditions, attitudes, nuances, etc. as trivial which may in fact be very important. I believe there are entire fields of scientific research laying relatively untouched, because we’re still in what is essentially divide and conquer mode.
Unfortunately, men prefer to leave God OUT of the ‘God Particle’. Jesus Christ is the DIRECT provider of salvation to all who believe. “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man comes to the Father, except through Me.” [John 14:6]
Finding the Higgs boson in a high energy field (only) that existed for only a fraction of microsecond is EXACTLY the same as staring at dense clouds looking for the face of an angel and then, $10,000,000,000 dollars later; “THERE IT IS!!.. oops, now its gone. But WE FOUND IT!! We PROVED IT!!”