Prof Peter Higgs: Boson is not ‘God’ particle (offended by name because he’s atheist)

The Scotsman ^ | Monday 8 April 2013 00:00 | Clare McKim

[Olog-hai]

Scots scientist Professor Peter Higgs has urged the public to stop calling the Higgs boson the “God particle”—because he is an atheist.

The scientist came up with the theory of a sub-atomic particle, since dubbed the Higgs boson, which would explain the mystery of how things have mass.

But he wants people to stop referring to it as the “God particle” because he does not believe the particle holding the physical fabric of the universe together is the work of an almighty creator. …

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Olog-hai.

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[MHGinTN]

Call it the gluon which holds dimension space together with dimension time ... oh wait, gluon has already been taken.

[SunkenCiv]

Professor Higgs speaks out against the name ‘God particle’
By Julian Gavaghan | Yahoo! News – Tue, Apr 9, 2013
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/professor-higgs-speaks-out-against-the-name—god-particle-—095113715.html