Excuse me...Higgs Bozon I Presume

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I don't know exactly what this is (besides CERN, dugh), but I do know that it is baddass.

Apparently it's the end of the search. Houston we have ourselves some Bow-zon (Higgs Boson). I'm not going to even try and pretend that I know more than I know about this (I know you guys do) then I do, but what do you halfta know: some super smart peeps made a prediction, there was testing and testing, and searching and searching in that peer-y unbiased kinda way, and guess what, the prediction turned out to be true (science, it works, beothces).


So many things are going thru my mind right now. Is this the most epic discovery of my lifetime (perhaps), shouldn't they have called it call it the atheist particle, will this mean that the flying jet packs they promised us when we were kids will now come to fruition, and this will open those doors to hella discoveries-n-shit and in addition to that 10, 20, a million years in the future (perhaps) we will look back at this as the thingy that changed everything (because it is so epic). Or not.

We now have mass, or rather we know now why there is mass rather than not. This is a cute-sie explanation of why this is the coolest discovery since sliced bread, best explanation of Higgs Boson. This is the explanation of why there is mass, rather than not. I guess the layperson's (me) term would be glue. It is the sticky stickiness that holds everything together. So instead of atoms and molecules flying around, they can chill and congregate in one place and stick together in this thing called mass.


Just like all the other great, and even not great, scientific discoveries, this answer only leads to more questions. As it should be. Now that we have matter, as opposed to not matter and because matter is only, like, 4% of the universe, we can now look to solving the other mysteries like that matter and dark matter thing the cool kids keep talking about. Ok before I get in way way way over my head (I'am already), I'll stop the science-science stuffs and address what I really wanted to address. The God of the Gaps.

So here we are again, another scientific discovery has been made, thus the God of the Gaps gets smaller and smaller. Right, err, sometimes, apparently you halfta be sane to acknowledge this. In Camp Believer faith is cherished over reason. In this camp the claim to have the answer (singular) and that always and forever has been and will be the answer, to them it is is awesome sauce. Can't get any better than that. Right. Wrong.

I Googled "hot scientists" and dude came up. Was' shackin' Bacon.

On the other better looking, conscious and reasonable side, in that camp it is acknowledged that one can never know everything, much less claim the correct answer for everything is the singular answer of God (naive on my part and fo sho belief can, not always, entail more than that. But room, space and time buddies. Anyhoo...). The very truth that when one mystery/question is solved then that opens the door to more unsolved mysteries and questions. The difference between the two camps is this 1) one side thinks that to (incorrectly claim) declare that all answers to all questions, forever and evah, is the singular answer of "God did it, now shut up your mouth, atheists."

The other better looking and fashionable side (that probably uses Mac's. Just sayin'.) acknowledges that it is impossible to know everything and that is OK. There is nothing wrong with that. It seems to me that there is a choice. You can be negative that the univers has no plan for us, we are not special and when you die, then you just fuckin' die. That is it because that doesn't necessarily mean that is a negative event and because of that now life sucks. Life can still be good even tho God is not the answer to all questions, there is no plan and you are not special (1). We can choose to acknowledge that and be positive or negative.

The same goes for scientific inquiry and admitting that mere humans cannot and will not ever ever know everything. Who fuckin' cares. Just because mere humans do not know everything does not necessarily that that is a negative event. Big deal-eo, mere humans do not know everything so I guess life sucks, automatically...not. If you believe the religionist, then it is a crime/sin to not know and/or acknowledge what they call the truth is. I really do believe that this is one of the significant thingies between the two camps: on one side it is a crime/sin to not believe that the one truth (answer) or every question ever ever is "God did it." The other tanner and cuter side believes that is not necessarily negative that a mere human does not know something, or everything, at a certain time.

To us it is a chance to spread your wings and work that evolved human brain the Nu Atheists keep talking about. The truest and most honest truth, is scientific truth. Sure sometimes science gets it wrong, but science is self correcting and that is the beauty of science (as opposed to unchanging religion). If something is shown to be incorrect, then we will dump it like (insert something that obviously there is no shame in dumping, here). But before that, if independent test are conducted by game peers, independently and the same conclusions come up over and over again, then WTF. I guess there is the truth and there is truithiness.

Who do you believe.

* Article Reuters

* BBC

(1) How is it that YOU are special in the universe and in God's grace, because that automatically means others are not special. Mysterious ways...fuck you, I'm smarter than that. Way smarter.

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