The God Particle: Part two

The Prophets from Adam to Baha’u’llah, that is, Abraham, Moses, Krishna, Buddha, Christ, Muhammad and the Bab, all told us what the force was that held ourselves and the universe together. Simply put: it’s the love of God for His creation. The Bible tells us God created us out of His love for us, and He also created the heavens and the earth for our dominion and happiness. Nature serves man in His search for meaning and the reality of all things. Man is driven to seek the truth in the reality of existence, to know the reason why everything exists. The search for truth and the discovery process, have no end.

To materialists this is epitomized by science, and to the faithful it’s epitomized by religion. Search and discovery, science and religion, are as old as mankind. How can science and religion disagree, when both seek and discover the truth? Is truth one? Or is it divided? Every single day, science and technology advance new discoveries which often overturn the old facts. Was the old information wrong?  Was it wrong to call Pluto a planet? Or is it merely a difference of degree and classification to now call it a dwarf planet and not a major planet? Science changes its facts and discoveries every day, as do new religions appearing one after the other, like Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Baha’i.  It would seem to me that both scientific truth and religious social truth are relative to the age in which they appear. Spiritual truths however, are timeless, applying to every age.

As a layman, a non-scientist, all I can do is watch the news and read the articles about this new Higgs-boson particle, and try to understand what it means. Yet people of faith have always known what keeps the universe together. This new discovery, just like more to come in the future, does not shake my faith, but confirms it. In my heart of hearts, and in my mind, I’ve understood for some time what keeps the universe together. It’s the supreme magnetic force from God, just as Einstein clearly alluded to in the opening quotation.

The Higgs-boson particle was headline news for one or two days, and then was quickly forgotten by most people who had heard it. Except the scientists and the faithful, of course.