San Francisco Chronicle features Prof. Kafatos essay on Higgs boson, ‘God particle’

The San Francisco Chronicle published an essay titled “Did God discover the God Particle?” co-authored by Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., the Fletcher Jones Professor in Computational Physics at Chapman University. Co-authors included Deepak Chopra, M.D., and Rudolph Tanzi, Ph.D., the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.

The essay examines some of the ground-breaking questions raised by the
Higgs boson
particle discovery announced July 4 at the Large Hadron Collider.

The authors write: “But behind all the hoopla and uncertainty, the news flew around the world that a basic building block of the universe has been uncovered, bringing quantum physics closer to its triumphant goal of explaining creation – hence the inflated and rather silly label of
God particle
. Yet from another perspective, nothing like an explanation of the universe is emerging at all. Physics may be getting closer to the day, in fact, when the way it views the universe classically reaches a dead end.”

The entire article can be viewed online at
www.sfgate.com/columnists/chopra/article/Did-God-discover-the-God-particle-3705245.php#page-1
.