Incredible Discovery

I have been following  this 6 billion dollar scientific research project to try and discover the secret to how matter gained mass . If this project could get to the point where the scientists could actually duplicate this feat then many answers to the secrets of what happened after the BIG BANG would unfold.

An international group of many thousands worked together to solve the mystery. Years ago Higgs and others believed that one billionth of a second after the big bang the universe was a gigantic soup of particles racing around at the speed of light without mass to speak of. He and others puzzled over how subatomic particles which are the building blocks of the universe acquired mass. Simply put particles would not hold together without these subatomic particles and therefore no mass.

In the sixties Higgs and others thought another particle named the Higgs Boson creates a sticky field field that acts as a drag on other particles and creates mass.This is fundamental for scientists understanding of how the world came into being.

The team of scientists called this particle,  God's particle. To prove the theory a huge Hadron Collider was built under Geneva and after years of research they finally discovered how mass was created from nothing. This exciting discovery captured my imagination as I always wondered how our universe was created beyond being told by clergy for years to have faith and believe God created the universe.

I wonder what take the fundamentalists will support in light of this scientific knowledge. This discovery is a once in a lifetime achievement and Gerald Oakham from Carleton University was a key player on the team who finally made the announcement.

As a followup the Hadron Collider will be improved to increase the capacity for making more  collisions in the future by a 100 fold to more than 40 million per second they now produce. This will help in the next stage of research. These are exciting times.