Why must we regard this with awe, any more than any other subatomic particle? Or atom, for that matter, or molecule, ir organism, or planet, or freaking galaxy? No reason, in particular. Except that it has been part of a problems that’ve mystified us. Answers make us feel good, at least for a split-second before we move onto the next problem.
But then that’s ascribing qualities to particles—mystery, wonder, awe—which really only have to do with our perception of them. Or, more accurately, their situation within the currently contentious and fund-attracting portion of experimental physics. If not anthropomorphizing, this is dramatizing the particle, or pulling the particle into the drama of human science, in my opinion, so as to rip it from any true or objective meaning.
It’s their opinion.
Then there is cancer......a real mystery.