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To steal a user's comment, finally an article that doesn't include "God particle" in the headline. I was rather disappointed in the CBC.
by SquareWheel 14y ago
To steal a user's comment, finally an article that doesn't include "God particle" in the headline. I was rather disappointed in the CBC.
- JonnieCache 14y agoStill includes it in the article body though. Phys.org sucks. Take your pick from this Atlantic roundup of physics bloggers, some of them directly involved in the experiments, for the real scoop: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/07/best-physics-gossips-you-should-be-reading/54123/ http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/07/best-physics-g... EDIT: this guy at nature claims " The ATLAS and CMS experiments are each seeing signals between 4.5 and 5 sigma" http://www.nature.com/news/physicists-find-new-particle-but-is-it-the-higgs-1.10932 http://www.nature.com/news/physicists-find-new-particle-but-... With the combination that could put us over the magic 6 sigma point, but that is a political issue apparently.
- tokenadult 14y agoLeon Lederman, who popularized the phrase "God particle" with his book, http://www.amazon.com/The-God-Particle-Universe-Question/dp/0618711686/ http://www.amazon.com/The-God-Particle-Universe-Question/dp/... has some serious street cred as a physicist http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1988/lederman-autobio.html http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/198... and as a promoter science education reform. (I heard him speak on the latter subject in my town at a science museum a few years ago.) I agree with you that a term like that probably needs explanation in a popular article about physics, but I can think of much more harmful terms in popular articles about science.
- SquareWheel 14y agobut I can think of much more harmful terms "Evolution? It's just a theory!"