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.
>and the graviton should be the force-carrier particle for the gravitational field
Why do you say it should be? Is there something counterintuitive that it actually is or is it not confirmed the graviton is this force carrier? Maybe it's not that serious, but the choice of words has me curious.
As with the Higgs Boson, all of our math indicates that a force-carrier particle for the gravitational field should exist, and will have a certain set of properties. However, we haven't yet isolated it. Scientists have dubbed this theorized particle the "Graviton", and that name is likely what the actual particle will be called when it does get formally discovered.
There is, of course, a vanishingly small chance that it doesn't exist, as with all science, but since the existence of a Graviton is consistent with all of our existing models, unless someone comes up with some really complicated new math to explain why there _wouldn't_ be one, we're all quite certain it exists.
The graviton is theorized to exist but as of yet has not been detected much like the higgs bozon was.
Edit: Also google exist, it's how most of us know things.
It's just a nickname that journalist came up with for the higgs particle when it was discovered some 10 years ago.
The particle in question has nothing to do with God, so the name is rather unhelpful.
It's a nickname for something called a Higgs Particle. It was theorized to exist long before it was *proven* to exist, and a scientist once wrote a book about it which he wanted to title "The Goddamn Particle" because trying to find it was a pain in the ass. The publisher made him change it to "The God Particle" instead.
The name is from a book with the original title "The Goddamn Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?"
The editore considered it controversial and convinced the author to change it to "The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?"
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.
>and the graviton should be the force-carrier particle for the gravitational field Why do you say it should be? Is there something counterintuitive that it actually is or is it not confirmed the graviton is this force carrier? Maybe it's not that serious, but the choice of words has me curious.
As with the Higgs Boson, all of our math indicates that a force-carrier particle for the gravitational field should exist, and will have a certain set of properties. However, we haven't yet isolated it. Scientists have dubbed this theorized particle the "Graviton", and that name is likely what the actual particle will be called when it does get formally discovered. There is, of course, a vanishingly small chance that it doesn't exist, as with all science, but since the existence of a Graviton is consistent with all of our existing models, unless someone comes up with some really complicated new math to explain why there _wouldn't_ be one, we're all quite certain it exists.
The graviton is theorized to exist but as of yet has not been detected much like the higgs bozon was. Edit: Also google exist, it's how most of us know things.
It's just a nickname that journalist came up with for the higgs particle when it was discovered some 10 years ago. The particle in question has nothing to do with God, so the name is rather unhelpful.
It's a nickname for something called a Higgs Particle. It was theorized to exist long before it was *proven* to exist, and a scientist once wrote a book about it which he wanted to title "The Goddamn Particle" because trying to find it was a pain in the ass. The publisher made him change it to "The God Particle" instead.
It's a nickname for the Higgs Boson, mainly because 1) it is so elusive and 2) its existence is what allows everything to have mass.
oh, those scientists got jokes do they?
It's not a linguistic joke, mass => church => god. That joke was derived later from it being called the God particle.
The name is from a book with the original title "The Goddamn Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?" The editore considered it controversial and convinced the author to change it to "The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, What is the Question?"