Or proof of James Mason's existence...?
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Subject: Higgs boson may sound like a name but it's potential proof of the Big Bang Theory Posted: 14 Mar 2013 - 22:28 GMT |
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Subject: Re:Higgs boson may sound like a name but it's potential proof of the Big Bang Theory Posted: 14 Mar 2013 - 22:30 GMT Can't wait to see what Eddie makes of this
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Subject: Re:Higgs boson it may sound like a name but it's a misnomer Posted: 15 Mar 2013 - 01:27 GMT NPR had a story on this today too:
Now, about that "God particle" name. As another of 13.7's bloggers, Marcelo Gleiser, has written, it's a misnomer: "The God Particle is the title of a popular science book by Nobel Prize winner Leon Lederman, who was Fermilab's director for many years and thus my boss when I was a postdoctoral fellow there. According to Leon, he wanted to call the book The Goddamn Particle  because nobody could find the thing. However, his editor discouraged him from the title, suggesting that The God Particle would sell many more copies. This is the story that Leon tells us."In any case, the name stuck. Of course, the particle has nothing godlike about it. It's a hypothetical particle, part of the so-called Standard Model of particle physics. Its main job is to give masses to all other particles. I guess, in this role, it does have something of a centralizing influence, although nothing quite divine. Its real name, the Higgs boson, honors Scottish physicist Peter Higgs who, in the 1960s, worked on perfecting the details of the mass-giving mechanism." (Read Full article here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/14/174287416/god-particle-update-scientists-think-theyve-pinned-down-the-higgs-boson) or listen here: http://www.npr.org/2013/03/14/174342951/god-particle-discovery-disappoints-some-physicists |
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Subject: Re:Higgs boson it may sound like a name but it's a misnomer Posted: 15 Mar 2013 - 14:03 GMT Wow, Claywoman! Thanks for posting that. Now I can REALLY "see" Eddie doing a take on that especially "goddam particle"!
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