So a new neutrino has been discovered, throwing a wrench into the dominant, “Standard Model” of physics. Is this really a surprise?
The new, “sterile neutrino,” like the God Particle (whose existence was recently “proven”) seem to just pop in and out of existence as measured by the machines that are able to sense them. But machine sense, like the human senses, are not really evolved to see anything new — they just evolve to sense matter we haven’t paid attention to before.
Our senses merely glimpse the qualia of a new thing, the way our animal ancestors, a long time ago, began to sense, for example, redness. We move toward the new qualia, like redness, we play with it, experiment with it, and soon we began to see it as a thing — that is, we pay attention to the substance behind it, or the matter of it — a bush with red berries, perhaps.
Qualia allows our senses to organize matter into meaningful patterns. But qualia also allows matter to organize itself into meaningful patterns, the way frozen water molecules organize themselves around a hexagon shape (becoming what we know as a snowflake). When neutrinos “pop in and out of existence” before the eyes of our measuring machines, they are just forming themselves into qualiadelic patterns that the machine recognizes. Scientists will consciously ritual with these patterns (i.e. experiment with them, or just think about them, playfully), until some genius improves on the Standard Model of physics.
The matter of the universe endures because of just these sorts of qualiadelic relationships. The matter of the universe forms itself around qualia because qualia not only helps matter endure (instead of popping in and out of existence), but it helps matter evolve. In qualiadelic relationships, matter shares qualia, and thus becomes more complex. Atoms become molecules, molecules become living creatures. Living creatures have qualiadelic relationships (share qualia) not only with each other, but with landscapes, thus creating ecosystems.
People have qualiadelic relationships with ideas, and evolve from merely smart to imaginative. Simple ideas like “might makes right” evolve into complex ideas, like the “golden rule.” The God Particle was well-named, because, like the new, sterile neutrino, it exemplifies the idea that “the more you know the more you don’t know,” or “the closer you get to the ideal, the less attainable the ideal becomes.” The closer we think we are getting to God, the further God gets from us.