Media folks like to hype it up and call it God Particle.
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The Higgs boson is often referred to as the "God particle" by the media,[SUP]
[70][/SUP] after the title of
Leon Lederman's
popular science book on
particle physics,
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?[SUP]
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[72][/SUP] While use of this term may have contributed to increased media interest,[SUP]
[72][/SUP] many scientists dislike it, since it overstates the particle's importance, not least since its discovery would still leave unanswered questions about the unification of
quantum chromodynamics, the electroweak interaction, and gravity, as well as the ultimate origin of the universe.[SUP]
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[6][/SUP] Higgs is an
atheist, and is displeased that the Higgs particle is nicknamed the "God particle",[SUP]
[73][/SUP] because in Higgs's view the term "might offend people who are religious".[SUP]
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Lederman said he gave it the nickname "the God particle" because the particle is "so central to the state of physics today, so crucial to our understanding of the structure of matter, yet so elusive,"[SUP]
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[75][/SUP] but jokingly added that a second reason was because "the publisher wouldn't let us call it the Goddamn Particle, though that might be a more appropriate title, given its villainous nature and the expense it is causing."[SUP]
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A renaming competition conducted by the science correspondent for the British
Guardian newspaper chose the name "the
champagne bottle boson" as the best from among their submissions: "The bottom of a champagne bottle is in the shape of the
Higgs potential and is often used as an illustration in physics lectures. So it's not an embarrassingly grandiose name, it is memorable, and [it] has some physics connection too."[SUP]
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