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Meet Father of the 'God Particle'

guardian.co.uk — Peter Higgs, a 79-year-old might be a shoo-in for a Nobel prize for the fundamental particle he proposed in 1964 - known as the Higgs boson or, more colourfully, the God Particle - but he is a reluctant rock-star scientist, too self-deprecating to even refer to the particle by name. He prefers to call it the "boson named after me".

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  • tian2992, on 07/04/2008, -16/+43Damn you Guardian!!
    It is Higgs boson, NOT God Particle
    It has nothing related to the existence of lack of existence of God.
    Please do not mix Science and Religion, specially here at digg.

    Other than that, nice article…
    • fudged71, on 07/04/2008, -5/+11well, it is identified by the name Higgs, but is also "known" as the "god particle."
      they should have made that distinction.
      and yea, it has nothing to do with religion... it just fills in the missing bits of the standard model
      • sgtbutterscotch, on 07/04/2008, -6/+1Did they not say your first line exactly? And of course if it is discovered, it won't prove the existence of god, but it will lend itself to the argument for god... least I think that's what I read somewhere.
      • Myonosken, on 07/04/2008, -0/+4"known as the Higgs boson or, more colourfully, the God Particle"
        It's even in the ***** description.
    • lekahe, on 07/04/2008, -3/+3Good point! At least scientists use the Higgs Boson and I find it very disturbing to give religious names to scientific concepts!
    • sockpuppets, on 07/04/2008, -5/+8How would you know? Maybe God's been waiting for man to discover it before he tells us all what we're here for. Anything past the atomic level makes my head susplode, you never know what will pop up. What do dimensions 5-11 look and feel like?

      And just to cover my ass: I for one welcome our new God particle overlords.
      • e2superman, on 07/04/2008, -7/+2"I for one welcome our new XYZ overlords"

        Am I the only one tired of these cliches? I only hate "1,2 3?? 4. profit" even more.
      • Acglaphotis, on 07/04/2008, -0/+9e2superman, they are not cliches, they are memes.
      • sockpuppets, on 07/04/2008, -0/+9LEAVE E2SUPERMAN ALONE!!!
    • Myonosken, on 07/04/2008, -2/+15"known as the Higgs boson or, more colourfully, the God Particle"
      It's even in the ***** description, note "colourfully"- they know what its scientific name is.
    • 223Sniper, on 07/04/2008, -3/+4it will take a couple of centuries for the lie of god to be erased from human tradition and replaced with facts and logic.
    • Kristijan12, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1We should also take into consideration that "Creator" if he exists, has nothing to do with religion.
    • jgtg32a, on 07/04/2008, -1/+3Why can't we mix science and religion?

      My religion is compatible with science, and it seem like a good number of people at this site profess science as their religion.
      • 4DFX, on 07/04/2008, -4/+2It's only compatible because you made it so in your head. It's still ***** and we don't mix that with common sense.
    • radiopayola, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3There's no mixing going on. Get over it. God is a lingual concept that represents a being capable of creating and sustaining our universe. The idea behind this particle is that it's purpose is to do just that. Hence, God Particle...

      The fact that the name leads you to think about a fairy tale dude in the sky says a lot more about *your* preoccupation with religion than it does about the particle's name.
    • nxtwrld, on 07/05/2008, -1/+2science is (a sort of) religion... ;)
  • mahoutie, on 07/04/2008, -1/+16Amen to that!.... Aww Dammit!
  • DroppedGT, on 07/04/2008, -16/+3How is SPAM made?
    According to Hormel: ''The ingredients are ground to a medium-coarse texture. Spices are then added to enhance the product's natural flavour. After the blending process is completed, the meat is mechanically filled into cans, sealed, and cooked in a ret ort oven. Upon leaving the retort, the cans are dried and transferred to the packaging area. A caser then automatically unscrambles and distributes the cans into the feed section, forms the corrugated tray, and loads the cans into each tray. the packed cases are conveyed through an automatic code dater and a shrink film tunnel. The sealed cases are then transferred to the storage and warehouse area to await shipment.'' Wow!


    or just post a lame article
    • Killbot2015, on 07/04/2008, -2/+1tl;dr especially for such a simple point.
  • alanr19, on 07/04/2008, -0/+4The name is what intrigued people into buying the book which was ultimately a big let down.

    I felt cheated after reading it. I guess that's what you get when you judge a book by its cover, or at least the title. The main stream media seem infatuated by this guy purely because of the book's title. Obviously none of them have actually read it.
    • sulthernao, on 07/05/2008, -1/+1The book was pretty damn good. I met Leon Lederman he's a nice guy.
  • SmellyFingers, on 07/04/2008, -5/+2Woah careful, bros. Ur getting extra close to breakin RULEZ 1 & 2!
  • DeviateSeptum, on 07/04/2008, -4/+8Nobody, truly nobody, calls it the god particle in the physics community. This term needs to be retired. It was coined simply to sell more books. I was very interested to read about Peter Higgs but the Guardian should not have used this tiresome term in the article's title.
  • Zlorp, on 07/04/2008, -7/+7My God is no particle! blasphemy!!
    • jgtg32a, on 07/04/2008, -0/+5/sarcasm

      This is digg you cannot forget this even if it's obvious.
    • ljw5021, on 07/04/2008, -0/+4Your god is a spaghetti monster.
    • ParticleMan420, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1That's what you think my son.
  • DesignEx, on 07/04/2008, -5/+23God particle is a stupid name. Since the Higgs-boson is really the "mass particle", it would be equivalent to saying the E=God * C^2, I don't think Einstein would have approved either.
    • ljw5021, on 07/04/2008, -1/+1I think you're misreading that name.
  • banido, on 07/04/2008, -1/+5Maybe with the LHC they will find God staring back at them.
    That's when he destroys us all.
    /sarcasm
  • lolwutpear, on 07/04/2008, -2/+8re: "God Particle": "Higgs himself is no fan of the label"
    good for him. seems like a nice, brilliant guy.
  • benjorino, on 07/04/2008, -0/+12I dont usually like it when people just quote random sections from the article, but hopefully this clarification of the name 'God Particle' will help the comments evolve in a more constructive fashion:

    "Its theistic nickname was coined by Nobel-prize winning physicist Leon Lederman, but Higgs himself is no fan of the label. "I find it embarrassing because, though I'm not a believer myself, I think it is the kind of misuse of terminology which I think might offend some people."
    It wasn't even Lederman's choice. "He wanted to refer to it as that 'goddamn particle' and his editor wouldn't let him," says Higgs."
  • rmeddy, on 07/04/2008, -2/+16Why is it always this God Particle crap ,it's Higgs Boson.They just want to sell magazines.
  • nedzeve, on 07/04/2008, -1/+6The God Triangle hates the God Particle
    They have a fight, Triangle wins
    God Triangle
  • Hartley1942, on 07/04/2008, -0/+3Read as "Meet the godfather particle"
  • hokie47, on 07/04/2008, -0/+3It is kind of like Star Trek Voyager episode 88 The Omega Directive
    • alex7575, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1The Omega Particle when stable, looked exquisitely beautiful reflected off of seven of nine's shiny boobs, UNIFORM! I mean, uniform...
  • ljw5021, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Finding this particle would really be a blow to religion everywhere.
    • alex7575, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Sure, let's worship an hypothetical entity, that no one's ever seen, heard or touched... Sure, that's gonna fly...
    • Puirtabeul, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Huh? How? Why? And as long as we're on the subject, who are all you people and what are you doing in my kitchen?
      • TheMoniker, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1*Puts down bagel, screams: "I dibnt tape amyphingkkjkj" with mouth full, runs out of kitchen.*
  • alex7575, on 07/04/2008, -0/+4Every time an article reads "LHC", all I see is "THC"... I really gotta lay down the pipe...
  • 3leggedHorse, on 07/04/2008, -1/+1I still stand on the side that the LHC will big the biggest waste of billions ever.
  • janetaSiri, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Anyone else remember the Higgs Boson episode of Lexx? It didn't end well.
    • alex7575, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Damn I was wrong, I thought my brother was the only person watching that show...
  • radiopayola, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2The Guardian needs to find some new writers. There's nothing self deprecating about calling it 'the boson named after me'. That's called modesty.
  • BlacklabelSAR, on 07/05/2008, -0/+4LHC...don't criticize it, just legalize it
  • Realing, on 09/10/2008, -0/+0~~~~God Particle~~~~
    full video:

    http://video-info.info/exclusive.php?id=God_Partic ...
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