GIBBS BOSON & HIGGS PARADOX

Every other man on the street spoke of the God particle. Even the normally discreet ones minced no words when the talk was centered on the new sensation, lest they be mistaken for fossils. As always, the village tea shop and the barbar shop were the hub of discussion dissecting the God particle threadbare. Many a time I felt like telling these scholars, "Thou shall not dissect what God has composed". Even priests talked on the issue from the pulpit during the Sunday mass. With the 'God' epithet they could not but talk. None asked anyone else regarding the new find as everyone was very sure about it with little doubt. Though the ideas propounded by individuals differed violently, that did not result in any violence as each one considered oneself right and others mad. Don't say that this is the first symptom of madness.

Turning  to myself, I remained silent not because I was an atheist disinterested in anything that was even remotely Godly. I was afraid to talk. I knew that Higgs Boson was far from what was being talked about. I knew that like any other particle Higgs Boson too was a mathematical object. But since the mathematics of it was far beyond me, I decided to live happily in a world sans Higgs Boson.

One of my friends educated me on how the God particle can be used to prove the existence of God.  The next day I found the poor man shattered as someone proved to him that the very same particle can disprove God !!! Now I had this friend talking about the 'Gibbs Boson'. As he kept repeating 'Gibbs' I tried to correct him. He was a cricket buff and a die hard fan of the cricketing great Lance Gibbs and it was that ghost creating the tongue twist. He was not prepared to concede defeat. He continued educating me; "See, Gibbs or Higgs, we should be more concerned about Boson. Prof Boson was an Indian scientist you know?? Bewildered, I wanted to tell him that the great Indian was not Boson but Bose. But I refrained as I felt that scholars should not be disappointed. If Gibbs Boson comes can Higgs paradox be far behind? I wait. One thing is certain. Never before in human history, so much of people talked so much over an issue with so little understanding. (smelt a Winston Churchill ??)

Long back Einstein made the following statement when too much of people talked with authority on the photon ( like quantum of energy, packet of energy etc).

  "All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question - What are light quanta?  Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself"

Today, will someone, may be Peter Higgs himself come out with a similar statement?..............

.....................for the God particle's sake???

......................because what is being done to the Higgs Boson is far more diabolic than what was once done to the light quanta.