| ▲ | tuyiown 4 hours ago |
| we had "god particle" too … |
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| ▲ | setopt 4 hours ago | parent [-] |
| To 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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| ▲ | jfengel 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | phs318u 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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”. |
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