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04-25-2011 3:17 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by Rahvin
04-25-2011 12:57 PM


The information conveyed to a physicist by the name "the God particle" is that the speaker is not a physicist: almost no physicist calls it that. (The obvious exception is Leon Lederman, who coined the term in a book of the same name for the general public.) Higgs himself hates it, and most physicists don't like it at all. I was a particle physicist for ten years, plus five years in grad school, and I never heard that name used within the field once.

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