alt Hacker NewsTo be fair, that one came from an editor not a physicist; the physicist wanted to call their book «the goddamn particle», and it got censored/editorialized to «the god particle».
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phs318u • today at 11:34 AM
Is that really where the name came from? I remember being struck by how dumb that was and thought “a journalist must have come up with that”.
I've heard that story and it doesn't ring true to me. It's not that aggravating to find. Try measuring a neutrino mass, which is still an open problem and looks as if it will remain so for a very long time.