Higgs Search

Shower on those devoted few
Bouquets of ultimate credit.
They, like a seeking pseudopodium of a giant amoeba in an earthen petri dish,
Adroitly toil deep in the treacherous depths of brave drudgery,
At the foreground of our collective's obsessive caring.
For what ? For the minutest spark of a needle action
In that one illusive field's hidden-to-our-eye activity
Hid safely in the gargantuan haystack of standard luminosity.
The omniscient media mischeviously calls them
The searchers of the God particle !

Behold too in the blessed background, the faintly luminous light

Of double glory, permeating the whole cosmos to whom caring,

As far as we know,

Doesn't quite apply fit.
But it may unwittingly apply.
Why make struggles
And beauty, why grandeur
And cutsey ideas and bitsy people,
Why have enormous scales of time and space and vacuum,
Why make matters even worse
By breaking symmetry - But for the elegant world
To Flaunt its sweet or ugly assymetry -
When Symmetry itself seemed heavenly to "ancient" devotees.
Why make Mass and mess with us,
Giving inertia and then starting all motion,
Starting this elaborate disordered moving drama ?
Why should a conscious organ in this universe (or of ?),
As if breathing in a giant skull
Of unrevealed topology and geometry,
Find all disordering cares unconsciously disappear
When it singularly cares about the possibly uncaring -
What with all the uncaring and miscaring in our surrounding -
Positively grand universe.
In those carefree whens
It sees an evident immanence
Of nature's graceful gears of grace at work.
It willingly misuses Occam's Razor,
Rival hypotheses being eloquent equally
In their inestimation of a caring conscious.
It carves the answer in a slimy grey convoluted edifice :
Bloody Caring !


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Note : inspired by wonderful talk by Ben Kilminster on "Massive Search Pushes Higgs Particle into Corner at Fermilab" on January 24, 2011. Go Higgs !