“That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to ca
“That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it ‘that goddamn particle’ because it was clear it was going to be a tough job finding it experimentally. His editor wouldn’t have that, and he said, 'okay, call it the God particle,’ and the editor accepted it. I don’t think he should’ve have done, because it’s so misleading.”Happy 93rd birthday to one of the fundamental figures in particle physics, theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Peter Higgs, born on this day 29th, May 1929 in Elswick, England.Higgs is famously known for the formulation of the Higgs mechanism which explains the origin of mass of elementary particles. More so, the Higgs mechanism predicted the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson, which was discovered by CERN at the Large Hadron Collider. -- source link
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