As for its creator, the riddle will never be broken. We are left with the story of a creator and a particle which are strangely parallel, the particle providing the perfect metaphor for its creator’s eventual disappearance. On the outer wall of the house where Majorana was born, in Catania, a plaque reads: “His timid and solitary genius scrutinized and illuminated the secrets of the universe with the blaze of a meteor that too soon evaporated in March 1938, leaving us the mystery of his thinking.” Majorana was only 31 years old at the time of departure. Or arrival, as the case may be.
Nicely written piece, I dig nautilus. I made the wrong assumption from the title and thought that the article would definitely be about "Peter Higgs" and the once (perhaps still) elusive Higgs Boson.