Danger, nerd talk ahead.

Today, CERN announced that they have found a boson right where the Standard Model predicts the Higgs boson to be. It's incredibly exciting news, made even more interesting by the fact that this boson doesn't behave quite like the SM predicts that the Higgs boson should. There's much more research to be done, but this could very well end up having the same type of impact that the discovery of electron had. There's a very good write up about the whole thing over that Bad Astronomy, if you want more details. Congratulations to all the scientists and engineers who worked on the project, and happy 4th of July to everyone in the US. 

We are One

I thought you all might enjoy a poem I wrote a while back.

I know you

You were a baby, full of potential

You were a child, full of dreams.

You were loved, you were hated,

Your dreams faced the waves of fate

Your hopes faced the rocks of reality.

You lost those you cared for,

You loved and lost and loved again,

You have seen the best and worst of humanity.

I do not know how your life has been shaped

by the storms of time, but I know one thing,

you are me and I am you.

We are humans, and we are the same,

Beneath the skin, beyond the battle scars,

We are one, you are me and I am you.

We are not at war, we are not enemies,

You are not some horrible other,

You are me and I am you.

We are born, we live and we die

Our lives are like a flickering flame

You are me and I am you.

We believe God is real,

We believe God is an illusion,

We believe in Goddess and Gods and everything inbetween.

And yet,

       You are me and I am you.

Forget those who say that we must fear

Forget those who would rule us

You are me and I am you, and we are one.