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What was the most significant
event of 2012? Answer it for yourself before you read on. . .
OK? Some of you probably said
the presidential elections, some may have included the dialogue on gun violence
in America, others listed the fiscal cliff debate (as of the writing of this
short article there is still no solution), still others may have listed one of
several regional issues impacting the global community.
According to one article by
Associated Press, if you mentioned any of the above, you are wrong. The #1
event of 2012? The observation of the Higgs Boson, sometimes also called the
God particle, was the most important event of 2012!
I know. I missed it too, not
just the answer, the whole event.
What is the Higgs boson and the Higgs field? According to Prof. Higgs’s 1964 theory, the Higgs
field interacts with the tiny particles that make up atoms, and weighs them
down so that they do not simply whizz around space at the speed of light. If it
were not for this universal field, the world would be unrecognizable. Without
something to give mass to the basic building blocks of matter, everything would
float freely and not combine with other particles. Ordinary matter, as we know
it, would not exist.[1]
While, I am sure the physics
of the whole idea are simply staggering, I prefer to put it this way – God
preferred order to chaos. Let’s take a quick peek at Genesis and see what
preschool children have learned for centuries, but some scientists only
recently discovered. In the beginning
when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and
darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the
face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
God created order. Now, I
don’t believe that scientists have managed to “take a picture” of God through
this observation, well, at least no more than you or I can by photographing a
magnificent sunset. However, I do think they may have gained some spiritual
insight, a recognition that we have a God who, regardless how chaotic our
personal world may seem, brings order, meaning, and purpose to the universe.
Pastor Craig
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