Tuesday, December 27, 2011

What’s the God particle?

"Calling it the 'God particle' is completely inappropriate," said the German physicist, who divides his time between CERN and teaching at London's Imperial College.
"It's not doing justice to the Higgs and what we think its role in the universe is. It has nothing to do with God."

The Higgs boson is being hunted so determinedly because it would be the manifestation of an invisible field - the Higgs field - that is thought to permeate the entire universe.
The field was posited in the 1960s by British scientist Peter Higgs as the way that matter obtained mass after the universe was created in the “Big Bang”.





According to the theory, it was the agent that made the stars, planets - and life - possible by giving mass to most elementary particles, the building blocks of the universe; hence the nickname "God particle."

I love to see scientists get bent out of shape as soon as the God issue comes up. They can’t figure out how or why we are here on this nice blue and green planet but they will go bonkers if you bring in the notion of a creator God!

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-Chris Heeb


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