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Permalink Reply by Doug Reardon on July 4, 2012 at 6:26pm

No!

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Permalink Reply by Keith Murphy on July 4, 2012 at 10:10pm

Care to elaborate?

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Permalink Reply by Doug Reardon on July 4, 2012 at 10:58pm

Why would anyone think it could?

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Permalink Reply by Keith Murphy on July 5, 2012 at 8:02am

They are calling it "The God Particle". I'm not saying that it is, but I'm trying to understand why it would be called this. 

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Permalink Reply by Kim on July 5, 2012 at 2:06pm

They nicknamed it the God particle because of its significance.  This particle gives all other particles mass.  Without this particle, the universe would just be a soup bowl of particles zooming around at the speed of light.  There would be no stars, planets, galaxies....and no you and me.  Hence, it is called the god particle.  It's a metaphor. 

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Permalink Reply by Eoganacht on July 7, 2012 at 7:46pm

Because Leon Lederman wrote a book of the same name. He wanted to call it 'The God-Damn Particle' but he couldn't publish profanities in the title, hence the edited version. It's got nothing to do with a deity. That and the metaphor for it's importance.

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Permalink Reply by Ezra T. Klatt on July 9, 2012 at 9:37pm

Leon Lederman, an atheist physicist, coined the term much to the dismay of Peter Higgs who first potulated the existence of the Higgs Boson. Lederman used the phrase as part of his 2006 book The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question? Despite the unfortunate name of his book, Lederman was not making the case for any kind of deity.

Kim's reply is a pretty succint explanation of the importance of the Higgs Boson

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on August 24, 2012 at 11:35pm

I just called a pretzel "The God Pretzel." That means God might exist, right? It might even prove it!

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Permalink Reply by kOrsan on August 25, 2012 at 1:14am

Sounds delicious.

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Permalink Reply by James Cavanaugh on August 28, 2012 at 12:59am

It was actually called the goddam particle in an article about it because it was "so goddam hard to find" and the name god particle was the result of a misprint that an editor ran with. It is nothing more than an unfortunate misnomer that has nothing to do with the nature of the Higgs boson. 

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Permalink Reply by james d on July 5, 2012 at 12:12am

the only thing that MIGHT prove the existance of ANY god is a physical revelation of said being. short of that, theories and apologists bullshit don't prove anything other than men make up shit when they want to believe something they can't prove!

 

just sayin'

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on July 5, 2012 at 9:40am

James d - long time! I'm thinking that if the Higgs Boson had anything to do with god, the stone would never have needed to be rolled away from the tomb - Yeshua could simply have nullified the charge from the "God" Particle, flown apart, then reassembled on the other side, assuming he could find all of his atoms. Of course, that would be kinda like looking for an atom in an atom stack --

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