Being the most awesome like liturgical dude like ever

Josef A. Jungmann SJ (1889-1975) was expert in the history of the Roman Rite. (The dates are important because there has been more than one Josef Jungmann SJ). To say he was lionised perhaps will mislead. Leviathanised would be closer the mark. The praise is always fulsome. The blurb at the beginning of this article is a standard example.

Alcuin Reid gives us a couple more. 

An historian, he has unequalled mastery of the complex changes in liturgical forms, but he has a wonderful sense for the abiding values of the Liturgy. With fine discrimination her is able to assess the gains and losses through the centuries and to suggest reforms that will restore to traditional values their pastoral efficacy. A deep pastoral concern pervades all his work.
[Charles Davis preface to the English translation of Odo Casel, The Mystery of Christian Worship, p.xii. Quoted in Alcuin Reid OSB, The Organic Development of the Liturgy, (Farnborough, Hants: St Michael's Abbey Press, 2004) Chapter 3 "The Liturgical movement and Liturgical Reform form from 1948 to the Second Vatican Council", "Introduction", p.134, fn.5.]

And another one: 

There is mighty little that he holds that anybody would be inclined to dispute; for he seems to come as near to omniscience on this subject as is humanly possible … Jungmann's conclusions are pretty well universally accepted by the pundits. He is THE great man of the day.
 [Clifford Howell SJ in "The Parish in the Life of the Church" in Living Parish Series, Living Parish Week, p.23. Quoted in Alcuin Reid OSB, ibid., "Josef Andreas Jungmann SJ", p.152.]

How can anyone survive that sort of praise?

(Clifford Howell's The Work of Our Redemption  is available online.)

Higgs boson

The first thing to say about the Higgs boson is that the stress is on the first word. Boson is a thing named after a person, not a person who was Higgs' colleague. More importantly it should never have been called the God particle as Br Consomalgno sj explains.

"The name 'the God particle' was given to it as a joke by Leon Lederman," the Vatican astronomer recalled. "It was basically a provocative title for book he was writing on particle physics. He said that if there was a particle that could exist that could explain all the little things we wanted to explain, it would be a gift from God. It is a metaphor and has nothing to do with theology."

(If you click through to that story you will see a picture of something even harder to find than a Higgs boson – a Jesuit brother in a dog collar).

I watched two videos meant to explain the significance of the possible find. They start from different ends. One goes through everything and then arrives at a discussion of the Higgs field. The other starts with the Higgs field and conveys the same information form there. I learnt a few things and learnt more things I would never understand. I also learnt that young physicists like stop motion animation. Some prefer it digital, some prefer it real.

LHC = Large Hadron Collider.