Who would say something like that: A psychologist, a preacher, or a physicist?
And does it make a difference because the rift separating the three is becoming increasingly narrow and each could be the high priest in the other’s “religion”. They use different methods and a different language, but they all delve into the Big Reality beneath the apparent to find a larger Truth. In this case, the speaker is Hulya Guler, a postdoctoral fellow at the universities of Montreal and McGill who is working at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He’s part of a Canadian team working on a project to find the Higgs boson, called the God Particle, which is believed to give everything mass, allowing the universe to exist. Scientists hope the largest machine in the world will let them peer into nature, to see a reality that existed during the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago, to see the platform on which reality is constructed. The Higgs boson, named after British physicist Peter Higgs who concocted the theory 40 years ago, is hypothetical, but scientists believe it exists bec
