Tell Me Again Why Higgs Boson is Earth Shattering?

[ananda]

24. This discovery has multi-layered dimensions.

Here is an article called "A Closer Look at the Higgs Boson" -- http://apnews.excite.com/article/20120704/D9VQ7AL82.html


Of course, there is more to life than practicality for some people. Somehow there is a way that math and science move into pure poetry and at some point pure source. Calling it the "God particle" provides a kind of mystical dimension to the mystery and the search for ultimate answers to our existence and that of the universe and the way it works. But of course that doesn't help the people living in cars worrying about police harassment, or those wondering how long they'll see a paycheck or whether they can even get healthcare, much less "proton therapy." And of course the mental dimensions of studies like these seem like another world entirely from our little legislative and schoolboard fights over science texts, what and how to teach, even to the point of wanting to ban the teaching of critical thinking skills. Our smallminded, materialistic, oversimplified religious fearmongering really look so petty in comparison to high mental and scientific achievements. But there are many many billions of dollars enough sunk in the kind of pettiness that can and do destroy worlds; so it's nice now and then to see achievements that soar above it all if only for a little while.