The Higgs Particle, and anger

I've always thought of science as a huge conversation that goes on and on, going nowhere for great periods of time. And I am both right and wrong, as the recent discovery of the Higgs Particle makes clear.

The Higgs Particle is the proposed elementary particle in a theory that suggests that an unseen field permeates all of space, giving form to what was once called nothingness. The particle itself is often called "the God particle", though real physicists resist calling it that.

Peter Higgs, after whom the Higgs particle is named, first proposed the theory in 1964; the official announcement of the particle's reality was madein early July, 2012.

I've always thought that people who are angry with other people, angry with political systems, angry with the government, angry that such and such a conspiracy is being covered up, either have some deep unresolved psychological trauma or a great need to have an explanation for what is essentially an unexplainable world.

I have one dear friend I talk with on an almost weekly basis. At some point in the conversation I have to hold the phone away from my ear while he talks about the Koreans, the Jews, the financial cover-ups, al Queda, the bread-and-circus being fed the American people, the idiots at City Hall, the Media...

My friend has many reasons why things are happening the way they're happening in his world, in his life. Very angry about very many things, he has yet to find a unifying theory.