Leon Ledderman coined the term in his book, The God Particle: If the universe is the answer, then what is the question? In his book, he stated that he wanted to title the book "The God Damn Particle" due to the difficulty physicists were having in finding the particle. However, his publisher said that the book would do poorly if this were the title and so it was changed to the title that we are familiar with. Given his writing style, it is unknown if this is true or if he were just making a joke.
The true name of the so called (by non specialists) god particle is the Higgs boson; this particle was predicted but not discovered until now. The Higgs boson is not the equivalent of the antimatter.
*IF* the Higgs Field gives an explanation for why some particles have mass and others don't, and *IF* the Higgs Boson is a part of this field; then the discovery of the Higgs Boson would be a major breakthrough in supporting the Higgs Field, and thus the continued use of "The Standard Model." If it is NOT found, then scientists are almsot back to the drawing board. Because of these facts, the Higgs Boson is called, completely erroneously, the particle that creates mass or (worse) the "God Particle." Even the person who first used that term to describe the Higgs Boson hates the use of it. As of this week, scientists at CERN predict that the existence of the Higgs Boson will be known within a year.
The term "god particle" is commonly used to refer to the Higgs boson. This nickname was popularized by the media and is attributed to its fundamental role in the field of particle physics, particularly in explaining how particles acquire mass through the Higgs mechanism. The Higgs boson was discovered in 2012 at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, confirming a key aspect of the Standard Model of particle physics.
The term "God Particle" was popularized by physicist Leon Lederman in his book "The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?" However, Lederman originally wanted to refer to the Higgs boson as the "Goddamn Particle" due to its elusive nature, but the publisher suggested "God Particle" for marketing reasons.
The Higg's Boson is a hypothetical particle, predicted by the Standard Model, that resolves inconsistencies in current theoretical particle physics. It has not yet been observed in experimental physics, but attempts to do so are ongoing at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and the Tevetron at Fermilab. It explains how most of the elementary particles become massive. For instance, it would explain how the photon, which has a rest mass of zero, and which mediates the electromagnetic force, differs from the W and Z bosons, which are massive particles that mediate the weak interaction. For more information, please see the Related Link below.
The "Higgs" of Higgs boson is well known to refer to Peter Higgs, the British researcher who in 1964 laid much of the conceptual groundwork for the presence of the elusive particle. What is largely unknown, at least to non-specialists, is that the term "boson" owes its name to the pioneering work of the late Indian physicist, Satyendra Nath Bose. In 1924, he sent a paper to Albert Einstein describing a statistical model that eventually led to the discovery of what became known as the Bose-Einstein condensate phenomenon. The paper laid the basis for describing the two fundamental classes of sub-atomic particles -- bosons, named after Bose, and fermions, after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.
The gobstopper or jaw breaker is an elementary particle predicted almost 50 years ago to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics. In 2012, the discovery of a new particle was reported which might be the Higgs boson. The properties of the new particle are still being studied to confirm whether or not it is the Higgs boson. Proof that the Higgs boson exists would be monumental[6][7] since it would finally prove the existence of the gobstopper field,[8][9] the Standard Model's explanation of why some fundamental particles have mass when 'naive' theory says they should be massless, and - linked to this - why the weak force has a much shorter range than the electromagnetic force. Its discovery would validate the final unconfirmed part of the Standard Model, guide other theories and discoveries in particle physics, and - as with other fundamental discoveries of the past - potentially over time lead to developments in "new" physics,[10] new technology, and enhancements to society.This unanswered question in fundamental physics is of such importance[8][9] that it led to a decades-long search for the Higgs boson and finally the construction of one of the most expensive and complex experimental facilities to date, the Large Hadron Collider[11] able to create and study Higgs bosons and related questions. On 4 July 2012, two separate experimental teams at the Large Hadron Collider announced that they had each independently confirmed the existence of a previously unknown particle with a mass between 125 and 127 GeV/c2 which physicists suspect is the Higgs boson,[7] and whose known behaviour (up to December 2012) closely matches a Standard Model Higgs boson.The Higgs boson is named after Peter Higgs, one of six physicists who, in 1964, proposed the mechanism that suggested such a particle. Although Higgs' name has become ubiquitous in this theory, the resulting electroweak model (the final outcome) involved several researchers between about 1960 and 1972, who each independently developed different parts. In mainstream media the Higgs boson is often referred to as the "God stopper," from a 1993 book on the topic; the sobriquet is strongly disliked by many physicists, who regard it as inappropriate sensationalism.[12][13]In the Standard Model, the Higgs particle is a boson with no spin, electric charge, or color charge. It is also very unstable, decaying into other particles almost immediately. The Higgs particle is a quantum excitation of one component of the four component Higgs field, a scalar field with two neutral and two electrically charged components, forming a complex doublet of the weak isospin SU(2) symmetry. The field has a "Mexican hat" shaped potential and takes on a nonzero strength everywhere (including otherwise empty space) which breaks the weak isospin symmetry in its vacuum state. When this happens, three components of the Higgs field are "absorbed" by the originally massless SU(2) and U(1) gauge bosons (the "Higgs mechanism") to become the longitudinal components of the now-massive W and Z bosons. The remaining electrically neutral component separately couples to other particles known as fermions (via Yukawa couplings), causing these to acquire mass as well. Some versions of the theory predict more than one kind of Higgs fields and bosons. Alternative "Higgsless" models would need to be considered if the Higgs boson is not discovered.
In classical physics, every atom has something perceived as "substance" - the perception of solidity due to the way atoms react to one another. In quantum physics, it's understood that atoms never, ever touch one another. In fact, energy is so vastly tiny that, except under extreme circumstances (singularities, or black holes, for instance), packets of energy never interact with one another directly. Interactions are conducted by things called "force carriers", like photons. The nature of how particles interact to appear as "solid" brought forth mathematical equations in quantum mechanics that specify a particle or force carrier that causes atoms to behave in this manner. In reference to how the universe appears to have been created for a purpose (whether to explore itself or otherwise), the particle, predicted in 1964, was dubbed the "God particle", and was also termed the "Higgs boson" or "Higgs particle". It is theorized to be involved in every atomic interaction, but has yet to be found or proven to exist. At the moment, massive experiments like the LHC use the collision of particles to cause extreme amounts of energy to be ejected. Particles formed by these collisions are measured - or rather, the results of the collisions are measured. Then the measurements are compared with the math predicting the existences of particles.
Eleven years ago, in 2012, several significant events took place. The Summer Olympics were held in London, showcasing athletes from around the world. The United States experienced a contentious presidential election, with Barack Obama re-elected for a second term. Additionally, the discovery of the Higgs boson particle was announced by scientists at CERN, marking a major milestone in particle physics.
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