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How does the god particle relate to super-string theory? Are they the same thing?
My skill in physics goes as far as hitting a nail right with a hammer. Please be gentle with your answers :)
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- 10 years agoFavorite Answer
The two are unrelated. The 'god particle' is the Higgs boson, the hypothetical particle in the current Standard Model of physics to be responsible for giving mass to matter
- Anonymous4 years ago
a million. no longer a theory, an theory, a flight of fancy, yet no longer even a hypothesis. 2. None of that has something to do with the God Particle. 3. in case you like this, great, whether it is no longer technology. at the start, the fourth measurement is observable, secondly, only calling some thing "god" does not make it so, and finally, this might't be examined so it has free of charge for technology. If the those that had got here across penicillin only mentioned the mould's "spirit fought the plague's demons" and left it at that, might that make it genuine? "God" isn't an answer to a question, it ends concept and prevents be attentive to-how.
- Anonymous10 years ago
God Particles, I believe = Higgs bosun particle, which scientists are only just beginning to think they are seeing evidence of from Large Hadron Collider experiments...
I imagine the God Particle is actually made up of Super Strings (think of Super strings as a sort of DNA on a quantum (extremely tiny) level).
By the way, the reason it is referred to as the God Particle is that its name is short for "Goddam Particle!"
"the Higgs particle, aka the Higgs boson, aka the God particle — the last a term popularized by the book of that title by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman. Lederman says the God particle was so named because (a) it's short for "goddamn particle," presumably owing to the difficulty of establishing its existence, and (b) finding proof of said existence would help us understand the "mind of God." Skeptics would likely add that the term is also appropriate because (c) like its namesake, it may not really be there."