Answer is quite simple. If it were Christian scientists, everything would be named God.
God-particle. God-ray, God-this or God-that would get quite confusing in short order.
In a choosing from Hindu mythology names of the incarnations and manifestations of the aspects of the Godhead are practically endless.
The point I was making is that these atheist minded people are still using the names of spiritual beings of a kind that they don’t really believe instead of sourcing the given titles from names that don’t come from imaginary omnipotent sources. Many of these people assert that there are no existent spiritual beings in the universe yet they insist on using names that point to the existence of such. Yeah maybe they hate Christianity but they still can’t seem to get away from using Pagan religious sources for the names of their various stars,phenomena, and cosmic particles.
They still seem stuck with trying to appease what was known in the Athens of Paul’s time as the “Unkown God”. These people are doing it instinctively and even they don’t know why. Oh sure they will claim they trying to attach some sort of symbolic meaning that makes their new particle or phenomena seem significant or important to the masses but there is no reason why they should do that since mixing religion with science muddles the science...right??!!