The author completely lost me at: "The Higgs, of course, has been labelled the ‘god particle’ because it accounts for the existence of mass in the Universe."

The author completely lost me at: "The Higgs, of course, has been labelled the ‘god particle’ because it accounts for the existence of mass in the Universe." No, it is called the "God Particle" because Leon Lederman called it the "Goddamned Particle" since he had so much trouble defining what it was and how it behaved, and his publisher shortened it to "The God Particle" because it had a snappier name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs#Political_and_religious_views http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs#Political_and_relig...