they finally found the higgs boson long time sometime, kwan-yin woke from her dreaming she had dreamed a dream of energy universes a silent dancing of beautiful equations incredible invisible breathing ideas but without mass in space-time truth was all alone in the heavens long time sometime, kwan-yin paused in her yearning and brought forth beauty with its arrow of time to light the passions and reward the spirit with impossibly many flavours but without souls struggling to understand truth and beauty were without perspective long time sometime, kwan-yin felt compassion and life began to see, to hear - and to feel kindness

musings the cern large hadron collider team has twice now seen the higgs boson - the last of the sub-atomic particles in the physics pantheon. it is the particle that assigns the property of mass to the energy that fills space-time. the "god particle". and i wondered what if the creator also took a long time to see the need for this last particle? first to conceive the world of beautiful mathematics, then to create matter so convoluted and messy that compassion and mercy would be not only necessary but the most interesting part of the whole dream/illusion. there is a hindu myth of creation i like and can't re-source, so here i've reassigned the myth to kwan yin, the female aspect of buddha energy and the goddess of compassion and mercy. for surely the creator is female. and clearly inventing matter required inventing compassion too. the story was something like this: there came one particular moment when the goddess woke up and was aware. and what she was aware of was herself being bored. so she created the universe. stars and constellations. planets and moons. that was fun. but after a bit, she was again bored. so she created life. flowers and ginkgo biloba trees. angel fish and hummingbirds. that was lots of fun too. but again it got boring. so she thought about it a few billion years. and what she thought was she'd make humans. and into each human she'd put just a little bit of godness into the human. just enough so the human would a few times during their life be fleetingly aware they were gods too. that game was so much fun she still plays it . and i am so a fan of plato (truth beauty goodness) as einstein corrected him (truth beauty kindness). The image of kwan-yin is by spiderlady-hera at link.and the image of the higgs boson is at cern.

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