Higgs Field, Brahman and God

1.   According to the Standard Model of Modern Physics, the Higgs field and the Higgs Bosons are the 

ultimate sources for the masses of all other particles that make up our universe. 

2.   The Standard Model and the Big Bang theory of Modern Physics do not recognize that the Eternal 

Void is also the source of our emotions. Ancient seers of India on the other hand knew that Emotions 

central to all life cannot arise unless the potentiality for them exists in the Eternal Primordial Void. They 

called the Static Potentiality of the Ultimate Source of our Universe by the name Nirguna Brahman and 

its Dynamic Realization in the Universe by the name Saguna Brahman. Nirguna in Sanskrit means 

Emotions only in Potentiality and Sarguna means their evolution in Space and Time in cycles eternal. 

Each cycle is said to be 4.32 billions of years of potentiality and another 4.32 billions years of its 

dynamic manifestation.  More details on these concepts reveal a striking order of magnitude agreement 

for the age of our universe between this Cosmology and Modern Cosmology.


3.  With these thoughts in mind,  I venture to suggest that the Higgs field might very well be the 

Nirguna  Brahman of Hinduism that is vibrant with Chaitanya loosely translated as Consciousness. This 

makes sense since as I said earlier in this post, emotions among life forms cannot arise without the 

potentiality for them being present in the primordial field. When that field operates on the material 

world that arises out of itself, the dynamism of field interactions sets in resulting in what the ancients 

called Saguna Brahman. 

4. These ideas are  consistent with the Abrahamic religions as well if you think of God in terms of 

Pantheistic and Panentheistic notions. That's why God is said to be not only Omnipresent and  

Omnipotent but also Omniscient. For more on Pantheism and Panentheism and the subtle difference 

between the two and how scholars have made the connection between them and Hindu Advaita, one 

can do a Google search. It's time that Modern Scientists recognize these ideas and seek ways to modify 

the World View based on the Standard Model and the Big Bang Theory without making an arbitrary 

distinction between the living and the non-living and try to unify Biology, Genetics and Neuroscience 

with Physics.