(Eli5) What is a god particle?
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It’s a mis-quoted name for the Higgs Boson. The actual quoted name is the “Goddamn Particle”, because scientists had been trying to isolate it for decades, and we’re still unable to do so.
A journalist got the name wrong, and we ended up with a weird nickname for it.
The Higgs Boson is the force-carrier particle for the Higgs Field, which has to do with mass (the weight/size kind, not the religious one), just like the photon is the force-carrier particle for the electromagnetic field (light, among many other things), and the graviton should be the force-carrier particle for the gravitational field.
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