Stephen Hawkins thought towards the end of his life that the universe just popped out of some random  quantum and  unspecified field, so perhaps  consciousness is of a similar nature .
Universes and consciousness are just popping out of anywhere ,he proposed .   Not, of  course , God ,say the atheistic Darwinian or follower of scientific materialism , that’s ” impossible “
The late and great Sadaputa prabhu joked  about this, saying, ” Here is a point , and here is another point and here another, which one did the universe or consciousness pop out of “
Of course, indeed, Krishna is within every atom , He is also outside the atom . Everything stems from that very same Krishna, including consciousness. He is the supreme ” point ” we might say.

Cern ….and the chasing  of particles …..

The Vedas would indicate that Higgs Boson is just the beginning of a series of smaller and smaller  particles that lead to the ethereal plane . The subtle has an inherant connection to every kind of matter .  Consciousness in conditioned life is attracted and simultaneously attached to matter , in one sense, it’s its cause . God does not manifest matter for his pleasure. it’s for our independence. He does so because we desire to live separately from Him . Krishna’s responsive universe makes all arrangements , ultimately stemming from Him the cause of all causes, mind, matter, but also of  our  pure consciousness , Krishna is a cause of all consciousness who is described in the Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.1 http://www.thevedicspectator.com