From Phill Chadwick
While looking through some obscure websites the other day, I came upon one
concerned with the functions of angels in religious traditions. Two quotations
leapt out at me:
“Angels are what are called the laws of nature” (John Henry Newman);
“Whatever is happening in the physical system does not take place without the
mediation of Angels” (Mirza Ghulam Ahmad).
On delving a bit deeper, it seems that angels are believed to be God’s
messengers and intermediaries, running the material world in every detail.
All of this reminded me of the family of subatomic particles called bosons.
The bosons are the particles passed between the hadrons and the leptons, thereby
“causing” the forces of electromagnetism (the photon), gravity (the graviton)
and the strong nuclear force (the gluon).
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So, in the spirit of reconciliation between science and religion, I propose
to rename the bosons as follows:
Old name – New name
Boson – Angel
Photon – Cherub (guardians of light and of the stars)
Graviton – Seraph (regulators of the movement of the heavens)
Gluon – Archangel
I leave it to others to suggest new designations for the W and Z angels,
bearing in mind that the Higgs boson has already been dubbed the “God
particle”.
Erindale, South Australia
