Scientific story- In search of God particle:

The Nobel Prize for physics in 2013 has been awarded to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert.

In 1964 - The Nobel laureates came up with the Higgs mechanism.

The universe was born with a big bang 13.7 million years ago, releasing a lot of energy. This energy was symmetrical, uniform in space and time. This symmetry broke 10¹¹ seconds later. The particles became non-uniform because they had acquired mass. This was due to the Higgs mechanism.

1. The Universe is pervaded by an invisible field of energy: The Higgs field. Higgs boson, the smallest disturbance in it.

2. Higgs bosons couple to and retard fundamental particles moving through the field, giving them mass.

3. For Higgs mechanism to occur, 4 particles were necessary. Electroweak forces swallowed 3. The only survivor is this Higgs Boson.

4. (LHC) Large Hadron Collider found the Higgs boson beyond reasonable doubt in January, 2013.

Before everyone slowly forgets, the "boson" in the "Higgs boson" the particle was named after Shri. Satyendra Nath Bose.

Satyendra Nath Bose

At a conference in Kolkota in September 2012, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director General of the European organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN-which conducted the Large Hadran Collider experiment) said, “I always spell boson with a capital letter.” He was responding to demands from a section of Indian academia for the ‘B’ in ‘bosons’ to be capitalised, just as ‘H’ was in ‘Higgs boson’. Satyendra Nath Bose’s name was conferred on the class of particles called Bosons, colloquially called force-carriers, by Paul dirac, a contemporary British physicist, in honour of Bose’s collaborative work with Albert Einstein in defining the properties of such particles in the 1920s.

At CERN the focus is on a theory of particle physics called the Standard Model, which deals with six kinds of bosons, six kinds of leptons, six kinds of quarks, not to mention at least 49 other less significant elementary particles. That is a totally different story and we will deal with it in a different topic.

Remaining questions – In Scientific story:

Though finding the Higgs boson is a remarkable achievement – and one which Higgs once said he never expected to see in his life time – it is not the end of the story for physicists trying to understand the structure of the universe. They are now grappling with other mysteries, such as the nature of dark matter that account for more than a quarter of the universe and dark energy that is believed to be the driver of cosmic expansion.

We have seen from the scientific point of view that our entire Universe started a long time ago, say 13.7 billion years ago, from a point of singularity, the size of less than an atom, in the form of an ultra hot, super energy.

From the Scientists point of view, still it is not clear, what this point of singularity was.

“The Ultra hot super energy, the size of less than an atom, that burst into a Big Bang.”

What was it? Was it just some Super energy, without any meaning? Or did it have Intelligence? Did it burst of its own free will? Or, is it due to the will of something/ somebody else? These are some of the unanswered questions of Science. Scientists do not believe in God and hence to them this is just a “Particle”, with no meaning.

View of Albert Einstein:

Albert Einstein said, “I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a Childlike one. You may call me agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervour is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer my attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own beig”. Einstein further said, “In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views. (Published in the daily newspaper “THE HINDU” dated Sunday 13^th October, 2013 – Open Page.)
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According to NASA (which is by no means a religious Institution): “More is unknown than known. It turns out that roughly 68% of the universe is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 27%. The rest-everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter-adds upto less than 5% of the universe. Come to think of it, maybe it should not be called ‘normal’ matter at all since it is such a small fraction of the universe.” ( http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy/ ) from an article by Shri.K.R.Srivarahan, published in the daily newspaper “THE HINDU” dated Sunday 13^th October, 2013 – Open Page.

Einstein's quote:
"Science without religion is lame, and religion without Science is blind."
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View of Swami Chinmayananda
In Vedanta we do not believe that creation started at any known point in time. This would be illogical and unacceptable to any awakened thinker.

Time can express itself only in a mind that experiences. In deep sleep, there is no concept of time. Time cannot be perceived and experienced unless there is a field of objects - the world. If we say that creation started, at let us say, "21st September" (creation hour) 21st September can have any sense or meaning, only with reference to 20th September (when creation was not). This would be absurd, as time itself is a created, perishable concept.

To avoid these logical contradictions, the only way we can say when creation started would be 0 second, 0 minute, 0 hour, 0 date, 0 month, 0 year. Time is the space between two experiences. So the first unit of time gets created only with the second experience, which means that creation has already come to pass (in the first experience). The concept of time was non-existent in the first experience. this idea is more beautifully and scientifically put when we say that "The creation is beginningless, it is absurd to think of the first creation. According to Vedanta, there is no creation in the sense of something having come out of nothing. God is himself both the material and the efficient cause of the universe. There was no first cycle. Time is infinite.

Why did God create the Universe?
Such questions are logical absurdities! Reason exists in nature. Beyond nature, it has no existence. God is omnipotent, hence to ask why he did this or that is to limit him: for it implies that he must have had a purpose, it must be a means to an end, and this would mean that he could not have the end without the means. Then questions, "why and wherefore", can only be asked of something else. The perfection of god is unlike any finite perfection.

Conclusion:

Since the topic of this article is “In search of God Particle”, from the scientific point of view, it ends here, without giving an answer to any of the questions raised.

The continuation to this article in book-2, will be titled “In search of Supreme God”, where the “The Ultra hot super energy, the size of less than an atom, that burst into a Big Bang” is explained as “Para Brahman” by the ‘Puranas’, ‘Bhagavat Gita’ and the Upanishad part of the Vedas. And this will answer all the questions that have been asked…. like…

Where did we come from?

Where are we?

Where is our end? and

Why are we here.

Still a long way to go to “Vaikundam”!

Please follow me patiently, to see “Vaikundam”

This is a new addition to this post dated 03-09-2021

I heard a lecture by Shri.Shri. RaviShankar swamy and here is the lecture which is very similar to this topic and with quotes from Vedas. Click the link below to see video.

https://fb.watch/7Myjps_gVQ/

I have started a new blog http://insearchsupremegod.blogspot.com which is a continuation to this blog. please follow that blog which will be updated everyweek. link is provided from below also.

I have been updating this blog often.....

Now the date is 26th February 2022.

As new discoveries are made in Science & Technology new perception are coming in and here is one.....

Surprise: the Big Bang isn’t the beginning of the universe anymore

We used to think the Big Bang meant the universe began from a singularity. Nearly 100 years later, we're not so sure. For more details see in the link below.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/big-bang-beginning-universe/

Here is some more news from the Scientific world.....

Hans Peter Duerr (1929-2014)was a nuclear physicist, Director of Max Planck Institute and close associate of Heisenberg. He was a proponent of the principle of uncertainty. He specialised in quantum physics, elementary particles, gravitation, epistemology and philosophy. He seems to have been very impressed by the Indian concept of Maya.

Now I seriously think whether we should revisit the Vedantic wisdom. Is the principle of uncertainty and quantum mechanics same as the Hindu concept of Maya stitched with mathematical muscles?