Whoo! Hoo!…. The Media is screaming about the LHS. All the world stands agog and the concerned scientists are already trembling in anticipation at the ‘very possible’ success in perceiving what is famously dubbed as the ‘God particle’; the original source of material creation, the cause of all causes, the ‘sarva-karana-karanam’, all thanks to the LHS or the Large Hadron Collider.
Or so they think…...

The journey for them began with theories of how everything came to be, where armchair-scientists dreamt up this fantastic theory of the ‘Big Bang’ (mark the word ‘theory’ ladies and gentlemen, for this explanation of the origin of the Universe is touted more as confirmed fact in our science books than as just a theory, which it actually is!)

Then somewhere in the last century, the Big-Wigs of Science realized the macro evolved from the micro, the big evolved from the small. So began the hunt to discover the smallest unit of reality. First to be announced was the molecule. Then the atom, then the protons, neutrons and electrons. Then the muons, leptons and the quarks.
And they contemplated….is there something smaller…??!!

So was born the concept of the Higgs particle or now more popularly known as the ‘God particle’, that infinitesimally dense particle of pure energy, along with its antecedent other fundamental particles, which interacts with Matter (what is known as the Higgs Field) and acquires mass. These we are expected to believe, then go on to expand and form the Niagara Falls, Music, the RadhaGopinath Temple and every other thing that inspires awe and wonder.
Now much as any atheistic scientist would like to deny it, the above theory is dangerously close to the Creation Theory explained in the Srimad Bhagvatam: of a Supreme Consciousness dividing into countless individual particles and pervading Matter to form entities etc.

So back to our original point of discussion: What’s the deal on the LHS? Well, the scientists back at the CERN figured that if they went backwards and recreated the ‘environmental’ conditions that existed in the first few fractions of a second after the alleged ‘Big-Bang’, and if they smashed some particles of matter together in a 17 mile long tunnel, 300 ft below the ground, the ensuing collisions will result in packets of energy which will then condense to form those fundamental particles, including….the source of everything: the ‘Higgs Particle’. How exciting!!!!

I hate to sound like a spoilsport, but even the scientists agree that the Higgs particle, even if it does emerge, is not going to catwalk onto the ramp amidst applause, and pose for photographs. By its very unstable nature, it may emerge at any time (if it does emerge at all!) for a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a second and instantly decay, a phenomenon which the scientists hope to pinpoint and record, after filtering through billions of pieces of data (read: identify by covert, common, convenient consensus, that THIS DEFINITELY is the Higgs particle!) Hip Hip Hurray for the scientists and their new toy!!

Yaawwnn….In the First Place, all the scientific evidence till date that ‘corroborates’ the Big Bang Theory only supports events that just followed the alleged Big-Bang, not what happened AT the time of the Big-Bang itself.
Secondly, the Big-Bang Theory is based upon the assumption that the Fundamental Laws of Physics are universal. The only spanner in the works, the fly in the pudding (or whichever way you’d want to put it), is that these Laws of Physics have been found to be not so Fundamental, not so Universal after all (many conditions have now been found to exist where these laws don’t hold true at all). The amount of evidence that exists that contradicts the Big-Bang Theory is quite beyond the scope of this article. In short, on many counts, the Big-Bang Theory stands null and void.
It’s a different issue that scientists still cling on to this theory for want of a better one….

So am I, being the die-hard spiritualist, raving and ranting just to disprove the Big-Bang Theory?
No, But for one, the thought of 5 to 10 billion dollars of investment (give or take a few million), time and energy going into trying to prove a theory that does not even have a status of being the factual truth, is a painful one.

But the possible complications of the experiment, if something goes wrong, causes me more concern. No, I am not worried about the ‘Formation of a Black Hole and Sucking in the Earth Theory’ that seems to be the flavour of the month for the media at present. For as uninformed as I am, I could place a very reliable wager on the fact that scientists, with all their puny gadgetry at their disposal, are quite incapable of mimicking the mind-boggling events (and in the magnitude that they occur) that take place in the cosmos.
For e.g. the cosmic rays that bombard the Earth routinely have energies greater than the LHC will achieve, without causing the Earth to disintegrate. Take Home Message: Whatever man does, Krishna does in a bigger, better way.

But yes, the experiment does involve high energy physics. A journey into a realm that is absolutely unknown, that exists only on paper in the calculations of the Great Minds in Physics. Who knows what environmental and ecological consequences it may have? And on the innocent people who may be affected, for whom the term ‘lepton’ may be just another variety of tea.

So the countdown begins.
As I see it, only two outcomes are possible.
One, where the experiment goes phoooossssss like a substandard fire-cracker and nothing happens. And in spite of learning nothing, the scientists still appear on TV and smile and tell everyone that the experiment was a grand success (after spending all that money and creating the hype, you have to give the media and the people something to chew on, right?!) And then we shall learn that now, we have a NEW revolutionary theory that explains everything about the Origin of the Universe!

And the other, where something goes wrong and causes horrible environmental consequences as mentioned above.

Better the former than the latter…Haribol?