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The god particle exists, and it has nothing to do with religion.?

First of all, I personally am an atheist. Second of all, I eat my vegetables. Third of all, because something is named "god particle", doesn't mean it has anything to do with religious belief. So let's cut the crud, shall we, and continue to keep scientific advancement and religion separate. Nor is science trying to attack religious* belief. This is about understanding how matter works.

Educate yourself people.

Update:

I realise this is not a question. This is forumming, which is fine on a website that is open to the exchanging of ideas. -___-

@Scott: Someone else did it first. Point your fat, green, sausage finger elsewhere.

@Sly Phy: Think abortion debate or something similar, since that's medical science. You would be suprised. o_o

@Matthew T: I'm pretty sure half of those people are trolls, and the other half don't understand the difference between a name and the actual object. As an atheist, I'm not looking for more evidence to disprove the existence of god, because I know what I know. Same way you don't need proof that god exists, because you know what you know.

@Phantom of Meth: Theists will argue that their divine being created that also, so for lack of interesting insults, YOU GET A F.

@Cecilla: Haha, probably. Either that or for a physics nerd, that IS their god. All hail!

Update 2:

@Phantom of Meth: Thank-you for the nicer edit, for one. Very smart point at the end. There has been a steady decline of religious followers. Look at Australia. We're a country full of sinners (apparently). I ask you this though, what about questions of the after-life? Personally, I think this is it. (cue MJ song)

@Lamb of God: Fascinating. Do you have a source?

@Nephew of Loki: General knowledge is a valuable tool, and can be applied to a variety of conversations and can make you sound smart and cool and stuffs. Never underestimate its power.

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  • 9 years ago
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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    You moron! It has important implications for cosmology and origins of the universe, which means if it turns out to be true then it is one LESS mystery or gap in our knowledge for stupid theists to try and argue for a god of the gaps.

    Edit - forget about what stupid theists say... what we might have here is one very important piece of the puzzle that can explain what happened during the big bang.

    Just remember this... the more science can explain the universe the less of a role there is for religion.

    Edit - Yes the god particle was a term originally coined by Leon Lederman who wrote a book about it and wanted to call it the "god-damn particle" cos it was too hard to find! But his publishers didnt like the name. The guy who first postulated the existence of the particle (a professor Higgs) hates the name "the god particle"

    But of course questions of afterlife are a mystery - they cannot be answered by anyone. Religious people will always have a say but since no one can really say theyve come back from the dead or they are communicating with the dead (I dont believe that hogwash btw) then no one really knows what happens. So we are all on equal footing with regard to the afterlife. The problem with religious people is that they wanna come of with some fancy stories about what happens, heaven, hell etc...

    But my point still stands... the more we discover about how the universe came to be... the less of a footing the believers will have to say that there had to have been a supernatural creator who created the universe.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    The Higgs Boson is very important in terms of understanding how things have matter. But what it doesn't do is negate the idea of a Creator God. The Higgs field, as I understand it, is more like the thread that holds stuff together or the glue that binds, but the thread is not even close to being the weaver nor is the glue close to being the one that applies the glue.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    people who declare this rationalize that there needs no distinctive clarification for count number shifting into existence. Their complete concept centers on denying any choose for a Divine intervention. the communicate besides the undeniable fact that, is real. The debris that make up the universe (from the smallest bit that only long surpassed via utilising us like we on the on the spot at the instant are not something to important black holes that carry the mass of tens of hundreds of thousands of stars) are govern via potential of distinctive regulations, and controls, such via utilising actuality the Higgs Boson. in user-friendly words a surprising trend clothier could opt to upward thrust up with a gadget that interlocks optimal of multiple debris and use them to construct a Universe.

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  • 9 years ago

    I just finished pointing that out in another post. Just because it is called a "god particle" means nothing other than it could offer clues to the beginning of the universe -- without a magical sky faerie. The god particle actually does more to disprove the common notion of god.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Stop encouraging religious people by calling it the "God particle". Even Higgs hated that name and he hates you too. Try to be a little scientific and call it the Higgs Boson.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    It is infact god damn particle. Higgs & Boson named it so because they couldn't find out the particle. So they were kinda angry at it & named it God-damn. The name has nothing to do with God.

  • 9 years ago

    "So let's cut the crud, shall we, and continue to keep scientific advancement and religion separate."

    As if the two could be combined... lol.

  • 9 years ago

    The name "God Particle" is missleading anyway, it suggests that the particle has some godlike abilities, while all it does is give mass.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    So how drunk are the R&S God particle drinking game participants now?

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    It's sly, scientists know what they're doing, provoking Christians.

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