eli5: what is a god particle?
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It is the Higgs Boson.
Physicist Leon M. Lederman gave it that nick name.
He explained why:
>This boson is so central to the state of physics today, so crucial to our final understanding of the structure of matter, yet so elusive, that I have given it a nickname: the God Particle. Why God Particle? Two reasons. One, the publisher wouldn’t let us call it the Goddamn Particle, though that might be a more appropriate title, given its villainous nature and the expense it is causing. And two, there is a connection, of sorts, to another book, a much older one…
And by the older book he was referring to the Bible’s Book of Genesis.
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