The deeper
we search, the more we find there is yet to know- Einstein
Though
currently basking in the glory of their new discovery ‘Higgs Boson’, I am sure
scientists at CERN are fully aware of the arduous
task they have in their hands.
Scientists at
Europe's CERN research centre have found a new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe, which appears to be the boson imagined and
named half a century ago by theoretical physicist Peter
Higgs. God
Particle aka Champagne Bottle Boson aka Higgs Boson has been “seen!!!”
"We have reached
a milestone in our understanding of nature," CERN director general Rolf
Heuer told a gathering of scientists and the world's media near Geneva on
Wednesday.
CERN
research
director Sergio Bertolucci said: "It's hard not to get excited by these
results.
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| One possible signature of a Higgs boson from a simulated proton-proton collision. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson |
"We stated last
year that in 2012 we would either find a new Higgs-like particle or exclude the
existence of the Standard Model Higgs. With all
the necessary caution, it looks to me that we are at a branching point: the
observation of this new particle indicates the path for the future."
Though, it’s time to uncork the bubbly it’s also the
time to contemplate on certain aspects.
"We
still much we don't know about particles - this is only the beginning of a new
journey. We have closed one chapter and opened another," Peter Knight of
Britain's Institute of Physics said.
Oliver
Buchmueller, a senior physicist on one of the research teams, told Reuters:
"If I were a betting man, I would bet that it is the Higgs. But we can't
yet say that definitely yet. It is very much a smoking duck that walks and
quacks like the Higgs. But we now have to open it up and look inside before we
can say that it is indeed the Higgs."
What scientists do
not yet know from the latest findings is whether the particle they have
discovered is the Higgs boson as described by the Standard Model. It could also
be a variant of the Higgs idea or an entirely new subatomic particle that could
force a rethink on the fundamental structure of matter.
As I had already posted, is this Higgs Boson, the Primordial energy, the Ultimate, Advaita that
we talked about? I think Time (4th dimension) wombs the answer,
for more research is needed to come to a conclusive finding that the particle
that’s “seen” is indeed Higgs Boson.
Whether this new
discovery leads to unlocking the secret of universe remains to be seen, but it
most certainly leads to a new frontier of questions whose answers need to be searched.
The fitting comment on
this perennial search of ‘What’s Before’, ‘What’s After’ comes from the man
hailed as the father of modern Physics Sir Isaac Newton
“I do not know, what I may appear to the world, but
to myself, I have been only like a boy-playing on the sea-shore and diverting
himself in now and then finding a smooth pebble or prettier shell than
ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
