I stopped believing / The moment when space / Was reduced to a needle

I meant to write ages ago about this whole Higgs Boson business, but then work happened and laziness happened and now it is almost 2 weeks since it was finally found. I am not going to explain what it is to you, mainly because so many people has done it better than I can. Okay, below brief (and awesome) presentation about whole subject:






(hurrah, minute physics. I love these videos, if you can't tell)

So, since I'm not going to tell you about things that you can find anywhere in internet, I'm instead going to write about

Why I think it's wrong to call the Higgs boson a "God Particle"

Yes, yes, it is invisible and we have no way of sensing it in traditional means and it is responsible for our (and cheese's and stars' and everything's) existence as we know it, it must be same thing as God / it must be a proof that God exists / haha in your face Atheists who now believe in something intangible that doesn't make any sense.

wrong!

Science and it's achievements and theories are very different from religion for one reason only. 

Science's (ok, physics') purpose is making theories about universe or about parts of universe and how these parts work. Theory in itself is only a brainchild, so it isn't necessarily true, and even if it seems to fit all the facts available, it still can be proven wrong. For example, we don't perceive the Earth turning in our everyday life, but we see the Sun moving across the sky. For a longest time all the data available led us to believe that the Earth stands still while everything else moves around us. But, with the new technologies came the new data, with new data came the new theories. And now we know a little bit more about the universe around us.

Religion on the other hand is known for putting it's fingers to it's ears and not listening when something they believed (creationists, I'm looking at you lot) is proven wrong. Christianity has been fundamentally the same for 2000 years, while science has gone forward in leaps and bounds.

We cannot confuse quantum physics with religious rabble, because all scientific theories are under construction all the time. Physicists are always trying to find what's wrong with their theories. Is there mistakes somewhere? Is there still something we don't know? Were we wrong about this or that? 

I don't think we'll ever be satisfied. We won't ever be able to sit down and make sense of it all like they can in religion. Believers can always just point at the heaven and say God when they are confused. It is not a luxury I want or need. Finding solutions with logic and brain power is more satisfying. (or you know, reading about other people doing it from a book)

Worst thing about religion is in my opinion that once you are proven wrong, the whole construction collapses into itself like a stack of cards. Believing in science and in logic makes rebound from failure easier.  

Calling the Higgs Boson a God Particle only confuses those who already have very vague and shady picture of the Quantum physics as a whole. It might be the thing that enables our existence, but it didn't create anything. It doesn't exist so that we could exist, but we exist because it exists. Secondly, we might not be able to see it or sense it otherwise, but we can gain information about it by looking at other things we have found. And if this theory is proven wrong, there is about dozen theories in line waiting to be tested.

Better listen to mr. Samuel L. Jackson