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Why is the Higgs Boson called the God particle when it has nothing to do with God?
Scientists hate it when it's referred to as the God particle, because it has nothing to do with God! It succeeded the Big Bang and the crucial focus of study is to learn how the symmetry breaking mechanism takes place in nature - the search for the boson is part of, and a key step towards, this goal!
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- NousLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
It was a joke at Christians in that if it could be proved the particle existed it would prove god did not!
So Higgs Boson exists and god does not but then we have always known the latter!
- SkeptikittenLv 79 years ago
Well, like you said scientists didn't call it that.
One gentleman referred to it by that name in his book, and the media predictably picked up on it as "catchier" than the term Higgs Boson or BEH Boson.
- Anonymous5 years ago
heavily, for a particle that somewhat facilitates to disprove a god by using fact it shows how mass can take place, there valuable are various people who think of the call ability it proves god. It proves god as much as vampire bats coach Dracula exists.
- ?Lv 49 years ago
They wanted to call it the Goddamn particle due to its elusiveness, but decided that was inappropriate and shortened it to God particle.
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- Anonymous9 years ago
because the people that came up with the name are extremely intelligent and have no other use for the word "God"
