(Picture from AFP: A large dipole magnet is lowered into the tunnel during the installation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2007)

Searching for God or for one’s soul takes many forms. People embark on epiphanies. They Google God. They climb Tibet. They even invent Bible Fight. And then, they find inner peace.
This time, mankind has upped the ante in the God-search business. Two days ago, AFP had this story on the atom-smashing guys at CERN. These particle physicists hypothesize that if the Higgs Boson particle is discovered or proven to exist, it might shed light on how the universe came to be, how other space-time dimensions may be possible besides x, y, z, and time, and how might dark matter and dark energy account for most of the cosmos. These prospects are the reasons why the Higgs is also called the God Particle.

Thus, these scientists are now finishing to build the most humonguous God-searching engine of them all. Located in a vast tunnel underneath the French-Swiss border, the new particle accelerator called Large Hadron Collider has been costing them 19 years and 6 billion dollars to build so far, but maybe the LHC will start functioning in July. What it will do is destroy protons speeding at light-speed in temperatures hotter than that of the sun and see if the smithereens are the Higgs.
However, AFP also mentioned Tevatron, an older accelerator doing its last gig for Fermilab in the US. The guys there are also trying to capture Higgs.

Verdict: we might be have been searching God everywhere -- only to find Him within each and everyone of us. Amen.