The mother of all sciences

Particle physics, or more generally theoretical physics, unlike the common stereotype, is as much an art as it is a science. Just as an artist imparts colors or sounds, or sometimes both, to his imagination and transforms it into something decipherable and wonderful at the same time, a theoretical physicist gives names to the creations of his mind and then fills them wih colors and sounds and other hypothetical characteritstics. To him all these things are as physical as his very self. He sees them, he feels them, he fondles with them. He dwells in two worlds simultaneously; one that everybody else sees just the way he does, the other one which he believes everybody else inhabits with him, but is visible only to his eye. The goal is to draw a connection between the two. To mould his ’invisible’ world into a form physically existent and observable. And a mighty tough task that is.