The God Particle

Given that in traditional Theology, Matter is often conceived as antithetical to divine Spirit, the dubbing of the recently discovered Higgs boson--a particle posited as the source of Matter in the universe--as the 'God particle', seems deliberately heretical.  However, many physicists reject that rubric, not out of piety, but because they want to distance Physics from any mystical connotations.  Still, that distancing from Theology does not immunize their equally grandiose ambitions from the same critical scrutiny.  For example, the assertion, 'The Higgs boson, an elementary particle of Matter, imparts Mass to other particles', requires definitions of 'Matter' and 'Mass', which could reveal their relation as merely an instance of the hardly exceptional one of Motion to quantified Motion, as Kant's definitions do.  More generally, in the absence of an adequate response to Kant, the Higgs boson is no more than an hypothesis about phenomena, and, hence, is inadequate to serve as a fundament of the universe-in-itself.  In other words, Kant's critique of the excesses of speculation applies just as much to Physics as it does to Theology.