The fastest man on Earth is a large person. The Honorable Usain St. Leo Bolt, OJ is listed at 6’5” and 207 lb.* That’s a significant amount of mass to move fast through the Higgs field. It is that field, we’re pretty sure, that resists the acceleration of a particle’s mass. Bolt’s a big particle. Do you find it interesting that we discovered The Honorable Usain Bolt OJ on a track? Isn’t CERN’s LHC a track of sorts? Just the kind of place to discover the Higgs! Lots of racers streaming around a track. Seems that running round and round, which some would say “gets you nowhere,” is a great way to distinguish among the more significant and the less significant. The Honorable Higgs Boson, OC!*
Where was I? Oh! Yes. The fastest man on Earth has mass, and he has that mass because of the Higgs field. But there’s another aspect of Bolt and resistance that catches my attention: His middle name is St. Leo. Leo’s the fifth-century pope who met Attila the Hun and prevented him from conquering Rome. He raced out to meet the conqueror and negotiated a peace--though some say plague and food shortages contributed to Attila’s withdrawal. Anyway, stick with me here, Leo made peace a mass too great to overcome in Atilla’s race toward Rome.
What if peace were a mass? Check that. What if peace were a boson exerting a force on violence, making its movement difficult? Seems the world has it backwards. The Peace Field that resists the movement of violence would be a nice universal force; it would, as an analog of the Higgs Field, give greater and greater mass to the moving violence particle, making it increasingly more difficult to move. However, the Violence Field is the one doing the resisting, it seems. The movement of Peace always has to push its way through the Violence Field. And the resistance is sometimes overwhelming. The Violence Field is ubiquitous, and the more effort one puts into a particle of peace, the more resistance one encounters. Even if the peace particle pushes through the Violence Field, that field quickly closes behind it like water after a boat’s passing. Boats, even fast and powerful ones, don’t make a lasting hole in the water, and like them, peace particles appear to push through a Violence Field only temporarily and only with great effort.
Look, also, at the carriers of the Violence Field. They often appear to be self-contradictory, causing violence they say others engender. The Violence Field is an insidious part of the human cosmos, everywhere making the gentle passage of a peace particle difficult, giving the peace particle a mass that increases unless it stops moving and ultimately yields to an inertia. Peace particles don’t move easily through a violent world. And unlike Usain St. Leo Bolt, OJ, peace particles don’t move in the same direction as all other racing particles. No, peace particles are more like the particles in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, they run round a track where they encounter opposing particles racing toward them, making collisions between peace and violence inevitable, much as Attila the Hun raced toward Rome as Pope St. Leo raced out to meet him. That’s our world, a track of collisions and fields of resistance. Just thinking, but wouldn't life be wonderful if the Peace Particles, like Pope St. Leo, could overcome a resisting field of violence or meet an opposing set of violence particles with the same result as in that fifth century meeting between Pope and Conqueror?
*Order of Jamaica, a significant designation in his home country like the designation “Sir Elton John” in GB (or UK, or England).
*Order of CERN—this one I made up
Where was I? Oh! Yes. The fastest man on Earth has mass, and he has that mass because of the Higgs field. But there’s another aspect of Bolt and resistance that catches my attention: His middle name is St. Leo. Leo’s the fifth-century pope who met Attila the Hun and prevented him from conquering Rome. He raced out to meet the conqueror and negotiated a peace--though some say plague and food shortages contributed to Attila’s withdrawal. Anyway, stick with me here, Leo made peace a mass too great to overcome in Atilla’s race toward Rome.
What if peace were a mass? Check that. What if peace were a boson exerting a force on violence, making its movement difficult? Seems the world has it backwards. The Peace Field that resists the movement of violence would be a nice universal force; it would, as an analog of the Higgs Field, give greater and greater mass to the moving violence particle, making it increasingly more difficult to move. However, the Violence Field is the one doing the resisting, it seems. The movement of Peace always has to push its way through the Violence Field. And the resistance is sometimes overwhelming. The Violence Field is ubiquitous, and the more effort one puts into a particle of peace, the more resistance one encounters. Even if the peace particle pushes through the Violence Field, that field quickly closes behind it like water after a boat’s passing. Boats, even fast and powerful ones, don’t make a lasting hole in the water, and like them, peace particles appear to push through a Violence Field only temporarily and only with great effort.
Look, also, at the carriers of the Violence Field. They often appear to be self-contradictory, causing violence they say others engender. The Violence Field is an insidious part of the human cosmos, everywhere making the gentle passage of a peace particle difficult, giving the peace particle a mass that increases unless it stops moving and ultimately yields to an inertia. Peace particles don’t move easily through a violent world. And unlike Usain St. Leo Bolt, OJ, peace particles don’t move in the same direction as all other racing particles. No, peace particles are more like the particles in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, they run round a track where they encounter opposing particles racing toward them, making collisions between peace and violence inevitable, much as Attila the Hun raced toward Rome as Pope St. Leo raced out to meet him. That’s our world, a track of collisions and fields of resistance. Just thinking, but wouldn't life be wonderful if the Peace Particles, like Pope St. Leo, could overcome a resisting field of violence or meet an opposing set of violence particles with the same result as in that fifth century meeting between Pope and Conqueror?
*Order of Jamaica, a significant designation in his home country like the designation “Sir Elton John” in GB (or UK, or England).
*Order of CERN—this one I made up
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