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17 Dec 2011, 5:23 am

Scientists at CERN object to calling the hypothetical Higgs boson the "God Particle:" They claim only the media does that.

See: http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/new ... HIGGS-GOD/

The people in the media tend to be dunces and ignoramuses when it comes to matters of science or mathematics. The Journalism Schools gets the bottom 25 percent of the student available.

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17 Dec 2011, 1:52 pm

ruveyn wrote:
The people in the media tend to be dunces and ignoramuses when it comes to matters of science or mathematics.

Just science and math? :P


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17 Dec 2011, 5:51 pm

I have always thought calling it the "God particle" is F*ing ret*d


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18 Dec 2011, 3:49 am

I recently read a book by that title, written by someone in Physics.

Leon M. Lederman 1993

I do not think the media coined that one.



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18 Dec 2011, 4:00 am

Inventor wrote:
I recently read a book by that title, written by someone in Physics.

Leon M. Lederman 1993

I do not think the media coined that one.

Yes. However, Lederman actually wanted to call it "the goddamn particle." His publisher refused to approve that title for fear it might offend some people, so it was shortened to "the god particle." :)



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18 Dec 2011, 8:08 am

dmm1010 wrote:
Inventor wrote:
I recently read a book by that title, written by someone in Physics.

Leon M. Lederman 1993

I do not think the media coined that one.

Yes. However, Lederman actually wanted to call it "the goddamn particle." His publisher refused to approve that title for fear it might offend some people, so it was shortened to "the god particle." :)


That is authentic Ledrman.

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23 Dec 2011, 11:02 pm

Give CERN some time, at least in private they will be using, The Goddamn Particle.

The Higgs Boson sounds like a renamed Gravitron.

They may get lucky and produce a Unicorn.



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24 Dec 2011, 12:22 pm

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Give CERN some time, at least in private they will be using, The Goddamn Particle.

The Higgs Boson sounds like a renamed Gravitron.

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Wrong. The spin is incorrect. Graviton is spin 2 which is why gravity sucks. By the way, a graviton has never been observed.

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25 Dec 2011, 12:55 am

That was my point, something made up by a Wizard with Elf power level 12, rolling the dice. Physics often sounds like a play in D&D.

First some facts, then speculation.

Twenty years since Lederman published, nothing yet.

One Particle that is the answer to everything we do not understand.

It makes everything else stick together and gives it mass.

The stories made up to explain facts are bad enough, speculation is just speculation, and very expensive in this case.

We will be farming with horses and still paying the cleanup cost for Physics.