The LHC is colliding beams of LIGHT on each other to observe particles cast off in the collisions.
The fundamental understanding underlying this endeavor is that matter is condensed light.
The investigation is then to discover all the particles that make up matter and so understand how light created matter.
God is light.
There you go. Simple as that. Now when these highly enlightened scientists begin to understand their dogma evolves just like everything else, they'll make some real breakthroughs.