Not "they", Leon Lederman.
There's a story he wanted to make it the "goddamn particle" but thought the publishers would object.
There's a story he wanted to make it the "goddamn particle" but thought the publishers would object.
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That name isn't a scientific name. Instead it comes from an article written by someone who dubbed the Higgs boson the "God particle" because they thought (erroneously) that it had something to do with the actual creation of our universe.
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Someone once wrote a book with the title referring to the Higgs boson as the God Particle. This caught on in popular culture, not the science community in general. It's slang, nothing more.
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They didn't; they named it the Higgs-Boson.
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Higgs Boson, as in the dude ;), simple enough for everyone to understand.