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Higgs actually wanted to call it "the goddamn particle."

• daliusd 15y ago
  Actually it was Leon Lederman who wrote book "The God Particle". Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jun/30/higgs.boson.cern http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jun/30/higgs.boson.ce...
  • michaels0620 15y ago
    That is a great book. It's well written and touches on details that most "physics for the masses" books skip. I also regret the use of the term God Particle though. I know he was being cheeky but it is all too easy for people to grab onto something like that and believe that this is some sort of religious quest.
• zerostar07 15y ago
  I can't fathom the amount of physicist blood that would be shed in the crusades that would follow.