As long as we look, we will find
Do you ever want to just go deeper? Come on, we all do.
Finding an answer often leads to another question and so on.
As long as we’re looking, we will find because the process of looking continuously reveals more, it’s an insatiable quest.
Let’s think about that.
Imagine yourself with the curiosity of a 6 year old digging a hole in the backyard. You break through the heavy sod to find grassy roots, the very thing that was holding the sod in place and just below you catch a glimpse of the tail of a worm diving a little deeper to escape the sunlight you let into his hiding place.
Next, you stick your shovel down a little farther, aha, found a few average looking rocks, but what’s that? A tattered piece of fabric, could be the same stuff your jeans are made of.
As you dig, you find a layer of dirt colored differently than the dirt near the surface, reddish-brown, clay like, and clumping to the shovel. Interesting.
Digging farther still, something hard! Oh, it’s a root from the massive oak in your neighbor’s yard. Working around it you find a sandy formation loose and flaky lying over a large pocket of dirt that’s blacker than black. Curious.
Your cousin once said digging far enough could get to China and you’re beginning to believe him. Excited, you find something new with each scoop because you have an expectation and a lot of faith in it.
Before the advent of modern science, humans believed grains of sands were so small that they must be the building blocks of all.
Modern science led the way to discovering molecules, then atoms, then protons and electrons, and infinitesimally small quarks and leptons, the likes of which we continue to try to understand fully. But is that as small as it goes?
Ever heard of Higgs-Boson nicknamed the ‘god-particle’ which gives mass to subatomic particles? How about fermions and the principle of supersymmetry linking force and matter as equal. Scientists say it could explain a lot we don’t know about the Universe.
I’m no physicist but I like the thought of supersymmetry; “everything working in grand uniformity.” Could this principle hold true?
Do we need proof to know it exists?
Finding an answer seems to always lead to another question. Dig deeper. We’ll always find more because we are expecting to. The farther science digs the more is revealed. It’s glorious.
Supersymmetry: It takes a whole lot of theorizing, researching, developing, innovating, experimenting and complex mathematics with teams of scientists in laboratories that house millions or billions of dollars worth of the most sophisticated equipment ever invented to even attempt to prove it’s existence.
Or it might just take faith? Hmmm.
