Recent news from CERN states that scientists doing particle research with the Hadron supercollider are drawing ever closer to revealing existence of the elusive subatomic particle known as “The God Particle.”
When I first heard about the possibility of the existence of Higgs boson, confirmation of which particle scientists claim might explain everything, it seemed appropriate and pleasing that they would also call it “The God Particle.” It moved me to write the following:
THE HUNTERS
Such a probing,
a hunger, to discover
whether skeletons rest
in crevices on Mars,
or diamonds crust upon
the shores of planets
far too distant to perceive.
Then there’s the hunt
to find the smallest bit.
“The God Particle,”
they call it,
or more prosaically,
Higgs boson.
Supposed to tie
all things together.
What a kick for humanity
if it turns out to be
the same as love.
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