From God particle to omega link

The European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva announced on 4 th
July 2012 that the much sought-after God particle, also known as the Higgs boson,
named after the British physicist Peter Higgs, has been found. The discovery
provides an important ingredient for the Standard Model of particle physics that has
been in development from 1961 until 1973. Without this particle, it is not possible for
the sun and other stars to generate energy through nuclear fusion. This in turn
makes it impossible to convert hydrogen into helium, which is needed to metabolise
oxygen, carbon, phosphor and potassium. The requirements for amino acids and
proteins, essential for life, would therefore not exist without the particle. The earth
would be dark and life, as we know it, would not exist. Elementary particles are point-
shaped and do not have any volume extension. Their mass exists only in relation to
the Higgs bosons around them. As “Nature” recently expressed it: the cloud points
that formed themselves out of cosmic dust within dark matter after the big bang have
been found. L. Boff said: “We are all children of the cosmic dust.” E. Cardenal went
as far as saying: “We come from the stars and we return to them. Nonetheless, there
are still people looking for some kind of God module in our temporal lobes.” Higgs
himself, as well as others, such as Nobel prize laureate A. Benz, are not happy with
the term “God particle”. God is the love of the relation that according to R. Panikar is
called the origin of the cosmos. We cannot pinpoint his location because he is and
will always be “I AM” or “I AM THAT I AM”. Let us cut through the Gordian knot and
refer to those particles in the spirit of P. Teilhard de Chardin as omega links of the
relation forming cosmic network of life. God says in Revelation 1:8 “I am the Alpha
and the Omega”. He is, and always will be: the heart of the matter.
Helmuth Werner, Theologian