Shevirat haKelim? (The Breaking of the Vessels) While the theory which makes the new discovery of the Higgs Boson important is utterly beyond me, it is striking that it apparently explains the emergence of matter and ultimately of life itself as owing to the shattering of the perfect symmetry of the early universe, a shattering produced by the Higgs Boson. See this story in today's NYT: CERN Physicists May Have Discovered Higgs Boson Particle http://shar.es/sLIGP
