The ultimate goal of all religious experiences is salvation, to attain the super conscious level where the individual loses his identity and dissolves  into a  sublime  state which is beyond all existence. Religion, which is dogmatic by nature, assertsthe  presence of an all pervading force called ‘GOD’. 

The scientists who are more rationalistic refuse to accept things until the statementsamenable to reasoning and physical proof.  As the religious group indulges in metaphysical explanation of universe related issues, their counterpart, i.e. the rationalist cries  from house tops "that which is not susceptible to scrutiny and scientific investigation does not deserve much concern.  There is no secret in nature that science cannot discover nor that which cannot be quantified or explained exist.  So the existence of a superior force is a point of contention until proved otherwise by philosophers.”  So the inference is ‘There is no God.’  Yet the Nobel Laureate and scientist Leon M Ledrermanin his novel,‘If universe is the answer what is the question’, has dubbed  the Higgs Boson - a particle which would answer many skeptics as God Particle

.What is God Particle?   It is an elementary particle predicted to exist on nature. It is a controversial particle, which can bestow mass to matter.  Gravity gives weight to object but we do not know what gives mass to particle.  The finding that will solve the mystery behind the phenomenon is God Particle.  The world massive physics experiment ‘Large Hardon Collider’ aims to unlock the secret of dark matter and also understand the entity that makes 85% of the universe.  Perhaps this would discern the mystery behind the God Particle-.a theory, which could rock the entire foundation of physics..

 Here comes the paradox.  Science, on it’s race to unravel a profound truth and the

spiritualists, though they appear to be dogmatic,  have the same objective - to understand what the universe is, the mystery behind the origin of this UNIVERSE. Be it ‘GOD ‘as the religious saints call it or the ‘GOD PARTICLE” as the rationalists or the scientists prefer to label it.   My---my my parallel lines meet!

Shri Yeshwant  Gaonkar  is in charge of the Physics Department.  He has a lot of Hindi poems written to his credit apart from the scientific articles published in various science periodicals.

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