From Easy Nash, a timely post.
I have blogged on a few occasions about the Large Hadron Collider that straddles two countries (France and Switzerland) and which conducted its first successful test yesterday. This mammoth scientific project, many years in the making, promises to have the same or greater short and long term impact on the world of pure science as Albert Einstein’s General and Special Relativity did about 100 years ago. What starts of as pure science eventually morphs into practical applications and benefits for humanity but the discoveries have to be made in the realm of pure science first before the benefits can accrue. At the level of pure science it is first and foremost a search for knowledge about the universe in which we live, move and have our being.
“Muslims believe in an all-encompassing unit of man and nature. To them there is no fundamental division between the spiritual and the material while the whole world, whether it be the earth, sea or air, or the living creatures that inhabit them, is an expression of God’s creation.” (Aga Khan IV, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, 13 April 1984)
Ismailimail 
The Hidden Treasure
You will find Allah in His creation
Every atom contains His spirit
Thus nurture it with care
For it contains the hidden treasure within it
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Thanks Shyrose, that is a lovely verse.
Earlier posting on Ismaili Mail’s Spirit and LIfe Blog on the topic of the Large Hadron Collider and the God Particle(Higgs Particle):
http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/excitement-mounts-as-peter-higgs-announces-that-the-discovery-of-the-god-particle-is-at-hand/
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http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/large-hadron-collider
New Scientist Comment
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Physicists are searching for the “creator”; they call it the Higgs boson. Evolution came later. To say evolution is not intelligent or lacks design is to deny recent discoveries of microbiology and astrophysics. Before anyone rejects intelligent design entirely, they should read the 40 books on psychology, biology and physics in the bibliographies of my e-book at http://www.suprarational.org If we were to completely dismiss that which we didn’t understand, progress in science and technology would come to a halt. It is the mysteries of life that drive researchers onward.
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