Somebody suggested this go into the Post. So here it is, filling up space/time.

'No one has really a conception of spirit. We cannot imagine what is not. We deceive ourselves by the idea of infinitely rarefist matter. Matter escapes the senses by degrees – a stone – a metal – a liquid – the atmosphere – a gas – the luminiferous ether. Beyond this there are other modifications more rare. But to all we attach the notion of a constitution of particles – atomic composition. For this reason only, we think spirit different; for spirit, we say is unparticled, and therefore is not matter. But it is clear that if we proceed sufficiently far in our ideas of rarefaction, we shall arrive at a point where the particles coalesce; for, although the particles be infinite, the infinity of littleness in the spaces between them, is an absurdity. – The unparticle[d] matter, permeating & impelling, all things, is God. Its activity is the thought of God – which creates.'   – Edgar Allan Poe, Letter to James Russell Lowell, 2 July 1844.

'CERN physicists now pretty sure they've found Higgs boson.'   – Pretty much every news source on the planet, 14 March 2013.

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