Higgs Boson and the 'God' Particle

Lots of money has been spent on this hubristic little foray into the nether-world.  Assuming that we don't all dissapear into a black hole, what are we trying to find out?  What happened in the few milliseconds after the Big Bang?

MG's probably missing the point here, but surely it would be more interesting to know what happened before the BB?  I mean, after the BB comes the universe, right?  How long it took and the precise manner of its evolution POST BB is not very interesting really.  What WOULD be interesting is an answer to this question:

Whatever it was that 'Banged', how did it get there?

We know, I think, that something can't come out of nothing.  If I stared at a bottle containing nothing at all, I suspect it would be quite a while before a universe appeared.  Every effect must have a cause - isn't that what science tells us?

This seems to leave the following options:  

1   Whatever banged must have been put there by some agency or other (God lights the blue touch-paper and presumably stands well back);

2   Whatever banged must have self-caused.   If that is right, the 'banging thing' defies all natural laws - stuff can't cause itself.  Therefore the 'banging thing' is meta-natural, or super-natural.  The 'banging thing' is God.   If that is right, then this banging thing is contained in (IS) every piece of matter in the universe.  God is all around us, in everything.   Spinoza starts to look sensible...  Now, this doesn't mean that God, so defined, is good (there's still the small matter of the problem of evil to sort out, and free will doesn't do the trick, I fear), or all-powerful, so it's no reason to believe in a traditional Judeo-Christian God or anything like that.