Food for thought: Peter Higgs despises media calling it the God Particle.

True story.

>> ^charliem:

Food for thought: Peter Higgs despises media calling it the God Particle.
True story.


Me too.

Boo for propagating the "God particle" meme. It's just mass; it's not god. And this is ancient news, relatively. And it's delivered so fluffily. Boo all around.

>> ^messenger:

Boo for propagating the "God particle" meme. It's just mass; it's not god. And this is ancient news, relatively. And it's delivered so fluffily. Boo all around.


Sir, please try our Camembert sample or possibly our finest aged cheddar for that big fuckin' bottle of wine you have.

Unoriginal insult, missed the mark besides, boo.>> ^BoneRemake:

>> ^messenger:
Boo for propagating the "God particle" meme. It's just mass; it's not god. And this is ancient news, relatively. And it's delivered so fluffily. Boo all around.

Sir, please try our Camembert sample or possibly our finest aged cheddar for that big fuckin' bottle of wine you have.

>> ^charliem:

Food for thought: Peter Higgs despises media calling it the God Particle.
True story.


Yup... Apparently it was supposed to be called the goddamn particle because it was so hard to detect...

my couch is coated with thousands of Dog particles

Ummm.... no.... The Higgs Boson is NOT confirmed by these new papers! It is again, merely proof that they have found a new particle while looking for the Higgs. It is not proven to be the Higgs yet.

And in other news today....Peter Higgs announced that he is God.

"Speaking to a packed audience Wednesday morning in Geneva, CERN director general Rolf Heuer confirmed that two separate teams working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are more than 99 percent certain they've discovered the Higgs boson, aka the God particle—or at the least a brand-new particle exactly where they expected the Higgs to be.

The long-sought particle may complete the standard model of physics by explaining why objects in our universe have mass—and in so doing, why galaxies, planets, and even humans have any right to exist."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120704-god-particle-higgs-boson-new-cern-science/

"...reached Biblical proportions."

C'mon! If you have to do triple-twist back flips to shoehorn in a pun, you should stop writing forever.

Even if it is the Higg's, from my limited understanding, you have to use a linear accelerator to gauge the spin state of a particle (of which it needs 0 spin to be the "Higgs" and a whole number to be a boson).