Why God Particle Is a Perfect Name For The Higgs Boson

Why God Particle Is a Perfect Name For The Higgs Boson

I prefer to call it The Force—a particle that "surrounds us and penetrates us, binding the galaxy together"—but Czech physicist Luboš Motl makes a good case as to why the Higgs boson should be called the God Particle.

Motl argues that all those scientists saying that God Particle is a bad name just do it mainly because they don't want to be labeled, "a ritual that helps to assure many physicists that 'they're a part of the right community', a classical example of a group think."

He makes some good points, revising all the name alternatives. A physicist proposed the dreadful the evanescent yet essential Higgs boson. According to Motl, that's "long, redundant, smug, hard-to-pronounce, hard-to-remember, arbitrary, and just universally annoying." He is right.

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Well, I don't really have much to add to this article, besides the fact that there is a happy medium between spirituality and science.

This is why we're not ready to discover something this powerful.. not only would we just cause more death and destruction but we also are arguing a politically correct way to name something that theoretically exists

Very interesting article!

.....and..... hardon

I hope they don't go with that...

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First time I ever read about the LHC I thought it said Large Hardon Collider

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All that wonderful speculation! And yet the truth appears to be rather more mundane:

Leon Lederman, a leading researcher in the field [of particle physics], once dubbed it the “goddamn” particle, because it has proved so hard to isolate. That name was changed by a sniffy editor to the “God” particle, and a legend was born. Source

By the way, I think the Origins & Creationism forum is the wrong place for this thread. I am going to ask the staff to move it.