Eureka: The God-Particle Article It is ironically appropriate that the university has all along clumped together a major

consisting of 'Arts & Sciences', because the recent discovery of the God particle is to the universe an exemplification of the art of science. If the behavior of the universe is like poetry than the God particle, otherwise known as the Higgs Boson cell, is essentially the pen, which puts us one position closer to allocating an author once and for all. Or, for a more apt analogy, since physics is basically the study of tracing matter's patterns through space-time, than the universe is poetry-in-motion, in which case the God particle is the pentameter. The discovery of this cell will reveal the origin of matter, which is the indispensable building blocks and proverbial brushstrokes to you, me, consciousness, continents, constellations, the whole cosmic portrait. Matter is also known as that mysterious stuff that caused you to have to take summer school a few years back. Most nearly everyone who isn't a student of the stars and doesn't have a penchant for quantum mechanics is curious as to what all the commotion is about. Well the quick and easy answer is, we are quite literally about to meet our maker. It's not exactly a matter (pun number one) of whom, but more accurately what. There exists a combination of intersecting substances plus movement and manipulation of said substances that dictate reality. We call these things particles, and they hold complete deterministic mastery over man's existence and destiny. The course of civilization is, at this very moment, being coerced by atmospheric forces. When I say reality, I mean the concept of it that Einstein once described as "an illusion, albeit a persistent one." As of now, we perceive reality to be an acknowledgment of everything that is tangible and detectable by our senses tempered with a strata of subjectivity. This is very true, but not the whole truth. We have our senses to thank for our inability to recognize the hidden order lurking outside of the apparent. The bodily instruments that we use to understand everything beyond the physical realm are fallible and rudimentary. Our limits of perception are imprisoned to this persistent illusion, bound by superficial perspective from womb to tomb like innate inmates. Kind of like that scene in "The Matrix" where a baby is born into the system and is immediately placed in a pool of amniotic brine, where it then has wires enter its' every orifice. On second thought, it's nothing like that, but our experiential capacity is restricted to as much as these circumambient components will allow. Due to this fact of life, every one of us is genetically and generically alike, as we

are apart of the same unifying fabric. Many different societies have been awakened to similar types of this thinking, but they lacked the scientific proof and subsequently their ideas lingered in hypothetical purgatory. Now, with newfound proof, and with this angle of vision perched securely in the mind's eye; we can begin to see the proverbial forest through the trees, the architecture from the scaffolding, the grand smorgasbord that became of an imponderable number of compounded crumbs, how's that for food for thought? Forgive me, for I forgot to warn you. An explanation of the God particle can get a little overly scientific. Unless you're a physicist with many years of academic discipline and posters of Stephen Hawking donning your bedroom walls than you're probably out of your element (pun number two). Bending the mind to grasp such a daunting concept may seem like a chore, but you don't have to view the world through Einsteinian eyes in order to appreciate it. Just think of the discovery of the God particle in theoretical terms of relativity (third and final pun of the night, thank you readers it's been real). Imagine the thing that you hold in higher regard than anything else; something that you positively burn with impassioned purpose for. This personal pursuit is so pertinent to you that it becomes a metaphor for life itself, as it is what gives your life meaning. Now imagine all of your hard work paying off and that unwavering dedication of yours being imbued with evidential worth, except that you're in the business of finding out the meaning of life, and that is the sought-after aspiration that validates your pursuit. That is what's happening. This is the result of restless research and $10 billion spent on a particle accelerator called the Large Hadron Collider. Our sense of reality is about to be redefined and refined. So by all means, you have the right to go out and celebrate proof of the Higgs Boson cell, even if you still don't have the tiniest clue what it is or means. The best part of it is, Peter Higgs, the visionary physicist who first postulated of a God Particle in 1964, is still alive to witness his life's work justified. That's a happy ending we can all enjoy.