After all, they are the language of the subconscious, created by you for you as a means of working out issues in your waking life.

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Even without eventual practical use, it would be good if the Higgs boson had a cultural impact, by moving into the language as a metaphor, just as "light year, " "Darwinian, " "subconscious" and "in the DNA" have done.

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