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Originally Posted by trekkor
Here we go! 
KT |
Nope. I said nothing of the existence or lack thereof of a Prime Mover, nor of the potential Forces that put things in motion. The Higgs particle infers a Higgs field, which was postulated to exist before the Big Bang. The massive inherent energy in this field (coming from the massive mass of the particle) could easily feed the Inflationary Universe. The total energy of the field is still zero, but it rapid fluctuates between positive and negative energy because of the quantum fluctuations (yes, negative energy exists, you see it everyday when something falls to the ground...gravity can be a negative energy field). The Universe could have spawned from a section of the Higgs field when it was in a positive swing.
The existence of the big Bang does not prove or disprove anything about God. However, the Higgs particle can get rid of the somewhat childish response from people of "how can you create the Universe out of nothing?". Well, it wasn't created out of nothing, it was created out of the properties of the God particle.
None of the above is a statement of fact, it is a statement of my current understanding of the modern Inflationary Theory, my discounting of some of the side "multi-verse" theories, and my understanding of the 30+ year search for the Higgs.