Thought for the Week: Hunting the Higgs

'Hunting the Higgs' by Anne Cluysenaar

by Anne Cluysenaar 6th February 2015

No wonder they love a laugh, the physicists.
What ever they find or don’t, it’s OK.
Symmetries of the world just remnants
of those which, if perfect, would only have led to

no world at all – anti-matter, matter
would have cancelled each other out. Maybe.
Or maybe not, if the theory is at fault.
And if it is? More exciting still.