Why do we care about creation?

A flaw at the heart of the argument for truth

Wherever I go I take my camera with me, to record the visible reality, a digital imprint of the visible light reflected from objects in the world.

An objective registration of visual phenomena is no more the truth of the world than a dead body is the truth of the deceased person.

A person is not a flat image, not even a three-dimensional thing, but a subject with whom you must engage as another subject.

The same is true of trees and plants

and even of inanimate things such as mountains and bodies of water.

The painter can not copy a pictorial imprint of the scene, but must try to capture and re-enact its life, he has to feel its 'breath'.

You have to know the place to feel its 'breath'.

Otherwise it is just a lonely place, a vacancy, a passive angst in the ambiguious light.

It matters to go and explore, to find out where we come from so we can find out where we are heading....

WE ARE WHAT WE BELIEVE CAN BE...so if you believe in our own limitations, it is reality, and with it comes really difficult and uncomfortable things we have to raise...

both about society around us and ourselves, how we have to confront our own prejudices, the idea of identity.

When we think we have a clear idea of how the world works and all of a sudden we find ourselves completely out of our elements.

We hate the loss of control, we are victims, yes, but we don't realise we are also complicits in our own downfall.

What matters is not our ideological balance or even our historical truth but the perception of our vision, how we see the world through the shared prism of knowledge and hope, it is all about where we have been and where we plan to go....

The very essence of everything

in a manner as primal

as the particles

that make us

we all

struggle

to grasp

that.

Despite

our fleeting

attention

span,

our unhappy

acknowledgement

there will never be

much return

on inverstment

at least

in the traditional sense,

and yet

every new scientific discovery

stops us

for a moment

to contemplate

something far,

far bigger

than ourselves.

And when that happens,

faith and physics

which don't often

shake hands,

share an embrace.

It happened this year

again

a wonderfully named

God particle

had been found,

the breaking news

from the physics world,

a team of scientists

for Nuclear Research

had proved the existence

of a particle

that helps explain

nothing less

than why our existence

is possible.

"We are nothing but quarks

and electrons

and a lot of empty space",

says physicist Fabiola Gianotti,

who headed one of the teams

using the Large Hadron Collider

a $10 billion particle accelerator

that crashes protons

into one another

in a speed of light.

People ask,

why it is so important

to discover the particle

that gives mass.

But without mass

planets, suns,

galaxies,

moons,

comets,

dogs and people

would not exist.

A cold and soulless cosmos

may not care either way,

but we do,

don't we?

But why do we care?

You ask.

The universe began with a big bang,

so what?

It's filled with wormholes

and superstrings,

dark matter

and galactic bubbles

and assembled from little specs of stuff

called fermions and leptons,

top quarks and cham quarks,

all of it glued together by gluons,

that's the trouble with particle physics,

it exists on a plane

that the brain

doesn't visit

and whole defies

our intiutive sense

of order and reason,

of cause and effect,

of the very upness and downdness

of up and down.

But energy and matter

are like steam and ice,

two different states of the same thing.

The particle may help

physicists

crack some ot the other great cosmological mysteries:

the nature of gravity,

the invisible dark matter

that makes up 80 %

of the universe,

the dark energy

that is forever pulling

the cosmos apart...

Galaxies are large enough

and spin fast

to fly apart

and yet

they don't,

the gravity from dark matter

is holding them together.

Dark energy is a different matter,

a force the apulls the universe apart

rather than holds it together.

The most of particles

that transmit light

have mass,

and mass needs something

to coax it into existence...

There is so much we don't know,

there is so much we need to learn,

I hope we never loose

our thirst for knowing it all

because we are much more

than lost souls

living in our inner worlds

in the society

from which we come

and the landscape

through which we move...

"Do not look up to stars,"

one old man said to me,

"because the best you can hope for

is to die in your sleep..."

I know he is right,

and yet,

I know deep down,

I will not stop looking up,

none of us will....