The God particle

[too drunk to care]

Say what?

[bizguy]

Technically called the Higgs boson.... I have seen no evidence that this particular particle has been endorsed or named by the Almighty....

[Tooleman]

But he made it..

[bizguy]

Originally Posted by Tooleman

But he made it..

Yep, but the implication of the name is that its existence replaces God, which is incorrect...

[va-native]

The name was given to describe how the subatomic world works, rather than as a deity replacement. Most scientists don't like that name either though. Surprisingly (dripping sarcasm here) the media picked it up and has run with it.

funny interview with a Higgs boson:

http://www.borowitzreport.com/2012/0...c=1&fwcl=1&fwl
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[boiler01]

It's catchy and people pay attention. Use it's real name and the average Joe won't care let alone remember it.

[socaltrojangal]

A good friend of mine is making a film about the experiment and those involved with it.

Here are his remarks regarding the film

In January 2012, I continued production on my new film at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The LHC is the largest machine ever built and the World Wide Web was created to process its data. It's a 17 mile long microscope which is searching for extra dimensions, the "God particle," anti-matter, and forces akin to those that took place in the first trillionth of a millisecond after the Big Bang at incredibly small sizes on the order of a tenth of a thousandth of a trillionth of a millimeter.

It generates a magnetic field more than 100,000 times stronger than the Earth’s and temperature necessary for the LHC’s superconducting magnets to operate is the coldest extended region that we know of in the universe - even colder than outer space. The magnets contain 1,200 tons of superconducting filaments much smaller than a human hair which, if unwrapped, would be long enough to encircle the orbit of Mars. The vacuum inside the proton-containing tubes, a 10 trillionth of an atmosphere, is the most complete vacuum over the largest region ever produced. The LHC uses an amount of electricity required for a small city such as nearby Geneva. The LHC’s $9 billion price tag also makes it the most expensive machine ever built.

CERN published an article on my work at the LHC, which does a good job of describing the film I'm making. It can be read here: Filmmaker Steve Elkins Visits ALICE for Next Feature

[CoreyI35]

A sad and forlorn Higgs boson walks into a bar. The bartender gazed at him for a moment, then finally asked, "What's the matter?"

[JJFrisco]

Corey - Go give yourself a wedgie and steal your lunch money.