John William Gary Answers Questions About The Higgs Particle - The Daily Journalist | The Daily Journalist:
"PhD. Gary, John Williams from U.C. Riverside.
1) The discovery of a particle that can produce all of matter is quite amazing. But why do they call it the God particle?
That is a silly name made up by Leon Letterman, a Nobel-prize winning particle physicist and former director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, for his popular book written some time ago. No scientist calls it that, and it has nothing to do with spirituality. I suppose that it refers to the fact we have been looking for it many decades, without success until now, so it has taken on sort of a mystique. Also, it is a very special particle in that it explains how particles acquire mass, so it is essential to the theory and is the only particle of the standard model that had not been yet observed."
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