The joy of Houmous

Anyone who's read up about quantum mechanics (I'm a novice in this regard) will know that the sub-atomic world is very strange indeed. It's a world where Newton's laws are meaningless and even a flummoxed Einstein was reduced to comment that "God does not play dice".

As we all know the Large Hadron Collider is about to be switched on. One of the aims of the project is to try and detect "God's particle" or the Higgs Boson particle which is supposed to explain why matter has mass.

The project has involved scientists from around the world - including Israel and Palestine it would seem. This from Ynetnews:

The project also brought about several unexpected collaborations, with Israeli scientists working side by side with Lebanese, Pakistani and Iranian counterparts. But one cooperative effort stood out the most, that of the warm bonds forged with a young Palestinian scientist from the Birzeit University.

When work on the project ended the Israeli team even organized a celebratory party together with the Lebanese and Palestinian scientists. Both Israeli and Palestinian flags were hung.

One day, Mikenberg recalled, suffering from joint hunger pangs for some decent hummus, the Lebanese, Palestinian and Israeli scientists "swung by Paris and scarfed some down, Israeli and Arab together. Science knows no borders and no enemies. It's a wonderful thing."